Every Writer - Every Day Poems

His Dream by W. B. Yeats

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

Sonnet VI by William Shakespeare Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill’d:

Kindliness by Rupert Brooke When love has changed to kindliness Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press So tight that

Hap by Thomas Hardy If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou

The Figure-Head by Herman Melville The Charles-and-Emma seaward sped, (Named from the carven pair at prow,) He so smart, and

Nightingales Robert Bridges Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom

To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works by Phillis Wheatley TO show the lab’ring bosom’s deep

The Poet and the Lily by A. B. S. Tennyson A poet was born in a modern time, ‘Neath Saturn

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