Category: Classic Poets

Only A Woman’s Hair by Lewis Carroll

Only A Woman’s Hair by Lewis Carroll Only a woman’s hair! Fling it aside! A bubble on Life’s mighty stream:

Wild Asters by Sara Teasdale In the spring I asked the daisies If his words were true, And the clever

In a Library by Emily Dickinson A precious, mouldering pleasure ‘t is To meet an antique book, In just the

The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Poets by Joyce Kilmer Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells That the wind sways above a ruined shrine. Vainer

One Day by Rupert Brooke Today I have been happy. All the day I held the memory of you, and

Preludes by T. S. Eliot I The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock. The

A Drinking Song by W.B. Yests Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s

Dream Land by Christina Rossetti Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charm’d sleep: Awake

Beauty and Beauty by Rupert Brooke When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is

A Valentine by Lewis Carroll And cannot pleasures, while they last, Be actual unless, when past, They leave us shuddering

Friends by W. B. Yeats Now must I these three praise Three women that have wrought What joy is

Love’s Lantern by Joyce Kilmer (For Aline) Because the road was steep and long And through a dark and lonely

The Moods by W. B. Yeats Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and

Anticipation by Amy Lowell I have been temperate always, But I am like to be very drunk With your coming.