Category: 1900s

THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes

“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is a haunting narrative poem that tells a tragic tale of love and sacrifice in 18th-century England.

Where-Away by James Whitcomb Riley O the Lands of Where-Away! Tell us?tell us?where are they? Through the darkness and

Whispers of Immortality by T. S. Eliot Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin;

The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon Snug at the club two fathers sat, Gross, goggle-eyed, and full of chat. One

Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer “Dulce et decorum est” The bugle echoes shrill and sweet, But not of war it

Tavern by Edna St. Vincent Millay I’ll keep a little tavern Below the high hill’s crest, Wherein all grey-eyed

Love and a Question by Robert Frost A STRANGER came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom

His Dream by W. B. Yeats I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt end of a steering oar, And

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

Indifference by Edna St. Vincent Millay I said, for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come, “I’ll hear

Inspiration by Aldous Huxley Noonday upon the Alpine meadows Pours its avalanche of Light And blazing flowers: the very shadows

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

Exposure by Wilfred Owen I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . .