Love Poems – Page 2615

The Frost

The Frost looked forth, one still, clear night,
And he said, “Now I shall be out of sight;
So through the valley and over the height …

Hannah Flagg Gould English
A Visit from St. Nicholas

’t Was the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, …

Clement Clarke Moore English
Old-School Punishment

Old Master Brown brought his ferule down,
And his face looked angry and red.
“Go, seat you there, now, Anthony Blair, …

Anonymous English
Seein’ Things

I Ain’t afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,
An’ things ’at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice!
I ’m pretty brave, I guess; an’ yet I hate to go to bed, …

Eugene Field English
A Mortifying Mistake

I Studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too;
But I couldn’t remember six times nine, and I didn’t know what to do,
Till sister told me to play with my doll, and not to bother my head. …

Anna Maria Pratt English
The Smack in School

A District school, not far away,
Mid Berkshire hills, one winter’s day,
Was humming with its wonted noise …

William Pitt Palmer English
“There was a little girl”

There was a little girl,
And she had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead. …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
The Story of Cruel Frederick

From “The English Struwwelpeter”
HERE is cruel Frederick, see!
A horrid wicked boy was he; …

Heinrich Hoffmann English
The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches

From “The English Struwwelpeter”
IT almost makes me cry to tell
What foolish Harriet befel. …

Heinrich Hoffmann English
The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air

From “The English Struwwelpeter”
AS he trudged along to school,
It was always Johnny’s rule …

Heinrich Hoffmann English