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Monthly Archives: July 2009
poem of the day
Thursday, July 30, 2009
A Wish
by Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive
poem of the day
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Wages
by Don Marquis (1878-1937)
Earth loves to gibber o
poem of the day
Monday, July 27, 2009
The Rainbow
by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
Triumphal arch, that fills the sky
When storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what thou art.
Still seem, as to my childhood
poem of the day
Sunday, July 26, 2009
A Song of Impossibilities
by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
Lady, I loved you all last year,
How honestly and well
poem of the day
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Love and Hate
by Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862)
Ope not thy lips, thou foolish one,
Nor turn to me thy face;
The blasts of heaven shall strike thee down
Ere I will give thee grace.
Take thou thy shadow from my path,
Nor turn to me and pray;
The wild wild winds thy dirge may sing
Ere I will bid thee stay.
Turn thou away thy [...]
poem of the day
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Success
by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain,
The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng.
These I ignore to-day and only long
To pour my soul forth in one trumpet strain,
One clear, grief-shattering, triumphant song,
For all the victories of man