Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Break, Break, Break
Break, break, break,On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!And I would that my tongue could utterThe thoughts that arise in me.O, well for the fisherman's..
© Alfred Lord Tennyson
A Farewell
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,Thy tribute wave deliver:No more by thee my steps shall be,For ever and for ever.Flow, softly flow, by lawn and..
© Alfred Lord Tennyson
All Things Will Die
All Things will DieClearly the blue river chimes in its flowingUnder my eye;Warmly and broadly the south winds are blowingOver the sky.One after..
© Alfred Lord Tennyson
Crossing The Bar
Sunset and evening star,And one clear call for me!And may there be no moaning of the bar,When I put out to sea,But such a tide as moving seems..
© Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Brook
I come from haunts of coot and hern,I make a sudden sallyAnd sparkle out among the fern,To bicker down a valley.By thirty hills I hurry down,Or slip..
© Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king,By this still hearth, among these barren crags,Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a..
© Alfred Lord Tennyson
Charge Of The Light Brigade
HALF a league, half a league,Half a league onward,All in the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.'Forward, the Light Brigade!Charge for the guns! '..
© Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lincoln
by Annette WynneA log cabin, rude and rough—This was house and home enoughFor one small boy; there in the chimney placeWith glowing faceThe eager..
© Presidents Day
O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the..
© Presidents Day
Washington's Birthday
by Hezekiah Butterworth▼ Full TextThe bells of Mount Vernon are ringing to-day,And what say their melodious numbersTo the flag blooming air? List..
© Presidents Day
A Little Boy and a Cherry Tree
by Annette WynneA little boy and a cherry tree,A strong young man who proved to beA worker with his brain and hand,A soldier for his well-loved..
© Presidents Day
Washington
by Annette WynneFirst of our great, we bringNew tributes to your name, and singSongs of remembrance on your day;Years cannot ever wear awayOur thanks..
© Presidents Day
Our Presidents—A Memory Rhyme
by Isabel Ambler Gilman First on the list is Washington, Virginia's proudest name;John Adams next, the Federalist, from Massachusetts came;Three..
© Presidents Day
The Turtle
Not because of his eyes,the eyes of a bird,but because he is beaked,birdlike, to do an injury,has the turtle attracted you.He is your only pet.When..
© William Carlos Williams
The Ivy Crown
The whole process is a lie,unless,crowned by excess,It break forcefully,one way or another,from its confinement—or find a deeper well.Antony and..
© William Carlos Williams
Gulls
My townspeople, beyond in the great world,are many with whom it were far moreprofitable for me to live than here with you.These whirr about me..
© William Carlos Williams
The Poem
It's all inthe sound. A song.Seldom a song. It shouldbe a song—made ofparticulars, wasps,a gentian—somethingimmediate, openscissors, a..
© William Carlos Williams
Kora In Hell: Improvisations Vii
1It is still warm enough to slip from the weeds into the lake's edge, your clothes blushing in the grass and three small boys grinning behind the..
© William Carlos Williams
Kora In Hell: Improvisations Xvii
1Little round moon up there—wait awhile—do not walk so quickly. I could sing you a song—: Wine clear the sky is and the stars no bigger than sparks!..
© William Carlos Williams
Kora In Hell: Improvisations Ii
1Why go further? One might conceivably rectify the rhythm, study all out and arrive at the perfection of a tiger lily or a china doorknob. One might..
© William Carlos Williams
Kora In Hell: Improvisations Xxvii
1This particular thing, whether it be four pinches of four divers white powders cleverly compounded to cure surely, safely, pleasantly a painful..
© William Carlos Williams
Cento Between the Ending and the End
by Cameron Awkward-Rich[Excerpt]“it is like the worldhasn’t happenedwhen I call outall my friends are thereeveryone we loveis still alive gatheredat..
© Friendship Day
Silhouette
by Janice Lobo Sapigao[Excerpt]”more and more of my friendsare becoming parents or partnersto plantsi have lived long and short enoughto remember the..
© Friendship Day
To The Oppressors
by Pauli Murray“Now you are strongAnd we are but grapes aching with ripeness.Crush us!Squeeze from us all the brave lifeContained in these full..
© Friendship Day