Poetry

Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly To remember sad things, yet be gay, I would sing a brief song of the world’s little children Magic hath stolen away. The primroses scattered by April, The stars of the wide Milky Way, Cannot outnumber the hosts of the children Magic hath stolen away. The buttercup [...]

Continue Reading Walter de la Mare – THE TRUANTS POEM

O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather. When loud the bumble-bee makes haste, Belated, thriftless, vagrant, And golden-rod is dying fast, And lanes with grapes are fragrant; When gentians roll their fringes tight To save them for the morning, [...]

Continue Reading HELEN HUNT JACKSON – OCTOBER’S BRIGHT BLUE WEATHER POEM

The grass so little has to do,– A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain, And stir all day to pretty tunes The breezes fetch along, And hold the sunshine in its lap And bow to everything; And thread the dews all night, like pearls, And make itself so [...]

Continue Reading Emily Dickinson – THE GRASS POEM

Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; Ah, weary, wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! The [...]

Continue Reading Rudyard Kipling – WHITE SEAL POEM

On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see, On account of his Beaver Hat. For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide, With ribbons and bibbons on every side, And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace, So that nobody ever could see [...]

Continue Reading EDWARD LEAR – THE QUANGLE WANGLE’S HAT POEM

I see you, on the zigzag rails, You cheery little fellow! While purple leaves are whirling down, And scarlet, brown, and yellow. I hear you when the air is full Of snow-down of the thistle; All in your speckled jacket trim, “Bob White! Bob White!” you whistle. Tall amber sheaves, in rustling rows, Are nodding [...]

Continue Reading George Cooper – “BOB WHITE” POEM

Oh, such a commotion under the ground When March called, “Ho, there! ho!” Such spreading of rootlets far and wide, Such whispering to and fro; And, “Are you ready?” the Snowdrop asked, “‘Tis time to start, you know.” “Almost, my dear,” the Scilla replied; “I’ll follow as soon as you go.” Then, “Ha! ha! ha!” [...]

Continue Reading A LAUGHING CHORUS POEM

“I’ll tell you how the leaves came down,” The great tree to his children said, “You’re getting sleepy, Yellow and Brown, Yes, very sleepy, little Red. It is quite time to go to bed.” “Ah!” begged each silly, pouting leaf, “Let us a little longer stay; Dear Father Tree, behold our grief; Tis such a [...]

Continue Reading Susan Coolidge – HOW THE LEAVES CAME DOWN POEM