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A dozen poems

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Chloris in the Snow, by William Strode



I SAW fair Chloris walk alone,
When feather'd rain came softly down,
As Jove descending from his Tower
To court her in a silver shower:
The wanton snow flew to her breast,

Complete Poem


Early Scare, by Tom Young



Lets terrorize baby.
Make him think he's in a cradle in a tree top,
swinging in the wind.
Hanging from a brittle bough ready to break,
moments from falling to the ground,

Complete Poem


False though She be, by William Congreve



FALSE though she be to me and love,
I'll ne'er pursue revenge;
For still the charmer I approve,
Though I deplore her change.

In hours of bliss we oft have met:

Complete Poem


Battle Song, by Ebenezer Elliott



DAY, like our souls, is fiercely dark;
What then? 'Tis day!
We sleep no more; the cock crows--hark!
To arms! away!
They come! they come! the knell is rung

Complete Poem


The Buried Chief, by Sir Henry Parkes



(November 6th, 1886)

With speechless lips and solemn tread
They brought the Lawyer-Statesman home:
They laid him with the gather'd dead,
Where rich and poor like brothers come.

Complete Poem


Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream, by Trumbull Stickney



Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream
That over Persian roses flew to kiss
The curled lashes of Semiramis.
Troy never was, nor green Skamander stream.
Provence and Troubadour are merest lies,

Complete Poem


The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, by Christopher Marlowe



COME live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,

Complete Poem


Black Swans, by Andrew Barton Paterson (`Banjo')



As I lie at rest on a patch of clover
In the Western Park when the day is done,
I watch as the wild black swans fly over
With their phalanx turned to the sinking sun;
And I hear the clang of their leader crying

Complete Poem


Why, by Bliss Carman



FOR a name unknown,
Whose fame unblown
Sleeps in the hills
For ever and aye;

For her who hears

Complete Poem


Yellow Warblers, by Katharine Lee Bates



The first faint dawn was flushing up the skies
When, dreamland still bewildering mine eyes,
I looked out to the oak that, winter-long,
-- a winter wild with war and woe and wrong --
Beyond my casement had been void of song.

Complete Poem


The Old Familiar Faces, by Charles Lamb



I HAVE had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days--
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have been laughing, I have been carousing,
Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies--

Complete Poem


...brogues...and definitely not a trumpet..., by Richard Zola



the heron in the stream
when would it have flown

if not for that sound
of a shoe breaking a stick

who's shoe

Complete Poem

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