Category: Poems in History

A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell

A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell “What means this glory round our feet,” The Magi mused, “more bright than

The Death of Robin Hood ?by Eugene Field “Give me my bow,” said Robin Hood, “An arrow give to me;

Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott On Christmas-eve the bells were rung; The damsel donned her kirtle

Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang Between the moonlight and the fire In winter twilights long ago, What ghosts we

A Christmas Carol by Christina G. Rossetti In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron,

? Song of the Holly by William Shakespeare Blow, blow thou winter wind? Thou art not so unkind As man’s

CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And

Each and All ?By Ralph Waldo Emerson Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top

Storm ?by H.D. You crash over the trees, you crack the live branch? the branch is white, the green crushed,

? Ode to a Nightingale ?by John Keats 1. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as

WIRERS by Siegfried Sassoon “Pass it along, the wiring party’s going out”? And yawning sentries mumble, “Wirers going out.” Unravelling;

City of Ships ?by Walt Whitman ? City of ships! (O the black ships! O the fierce ships! O the

COUNTER-ATTACK by Siegfried Sassoon ? We’d gained our first objective hours before While dawn broke like a face with blinking

? Vespers by Amy Lowell Last night, at sunset, The foxgloves were like tall altar candles. Could I have lifted

Wild with all Regrets by Wilfred Owen (Another version of “A Terre”.) To Siegfried Sassoon ? My arms have mutinied