Poetry

Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more! oh, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root’s white core. Dry your eyes! oh, dry your eyes! For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies,– Shed no tear. Overhead! look overhead! ‘Mong the [...]

Continue Reading John Keats – FAIRY SONG POEM

I know the song that the bluebird is singing, Out in the apple-tree where he is swinging; Brave little fellow, the skies may look dreary; Nothing cares he while his heart is so cheery. Hark! how the music leaps out from his throat, Hark! was there ever so merry a note? Listen awhile and you’ll [...]

Continue Reading Emily Huntington Miller – THE BLUEBIRD POEM

Wide are the meadows of night, And daisies are shining there, Tossing their lovely dews, Lustrous and fair; And through these sweet fields go, Wanderers amid the stars– Venus, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars. ‘Tired in their silver, they move, And circling, whisper and say, Fair are the blossoming meads of delight Through which [...]

Continue Reading Walter de la Mare – WANDERERS POEM

Ladybird, ladybird! fly away home! The field-mouse has gone to her nest, The daisies have shut up their sleepy red eyes, And the bees and the birds are at rest. Ladybird, ladybird! fly away home! The glow-worm is lighting her lamp, The dew’s falling fast, and your fine speckled wings Will flag with the close-clinging [...]

Continue Reading Caroline B. Southey – THE LITTLE LADYBIRD POEM

I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies’ skirts across the grass– O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid. [...]

Continue Reading ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON – THE WIND POEM

While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around. “Fear not,” said he,–for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind– “Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you and all mankind. “To you, in David’s town, this day Is born, [...]

Continue Reading Nahum Tate – CHRISTMAS POEM

God make my life a little light, Within the world to glow,– A tiny flame that burneth bright, Wherever I may go. God make my life a little flower, That giveth joy to all;– Content to bloom in native bower Although its place be small. God make my life a little song, That comforteth the [...]

Continue Reading Matilda B. Edwards – A CHILD’S PRAYER POEM

The pig and the hen, They both got in one pen, And the hen said she wouldn’t go out. “Mistress Hen,” says the pig, “Don’t you be quite so big!” And he gave her a push with his snout. “You are rough, and you’re fat, But who cares for all that; I will stay if [...]

Continue Reading ALICE AND PHOEBE CARY – THE PIG AND THE HEN POEM