Skip to content

Monthly Archives: March 2009

poem of the day

Young Love
by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Come little Infant, Love me now,
While thine unsuspected years
Clear thine aged Fathers brow
From cold Jealousie and Fears.
Pretty surely

poem of the day

poem of the day

Worn Out
by Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862)
Thy strong arms are around me, love
My head is on thy breast;
Low words of comfort come from thee
Yet my soul has no rest.
For I am but a startled thing
Nor can I ever be
Aught save a bird whose broken wing
Must [...]

poem of the day

Love Planted a Rose
by Katherine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
Love planted a rose,
And the world turned sweet.
Where the wheat-field blows
Love planted a rose.
Up the mill-wheel

poem of the day

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

poem of the day

The True Lover
by A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And whistled soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.

poem of the day

Dreams
by Anne Bront

poem of the day

Pomona
by William Morris (1834

poem of the day

To the Cuckoo
by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
O blithe new-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice:
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?
While I am lying on the grass
Thy twofold shout I hear;
From hill to hill it seems to pass,
At once far off and near.
Though babbling only to the vale
Of sunshine and of [...]

poem of the day

Mammy
by John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
I loved her countenance whereon,
Despite the longest day,
The tenderness of visions gone
In shadow seemed to stay.
And now, when faithless sight is fled
Beyond my waking gaze,
Of darkness I am not afraid,
It is my Mammy