Category: Poems in History

Preludes by T. S. Eliot

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

A Dream by Matthew Aronold Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d, Martin and I, down the

“LUCY” by Oliver Wendell Holmes “Lucy.” The old familiar name Is now, as always, pleasant, Its liquid melody the

The Dream by Edna St. Vincent Millay Love, if I weep it will not matter, And if you laugh I

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

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark

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

The Night March by Herman Melville With banners furled and clarions mute, An army passes in the night; And

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

To Milton by Oscar Wilde Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away From these white cliffs and high-embattled

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

Chinese Poet Among Barbarians by Louis Untermeyer The rain drives, drives endlessly, Heavy threads of rain; The wind beats at

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

Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I