Title Poet Year Written Collection Body
The Jester’s Sermon George Walter Thornbury 1848 English

The Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair;
The pages laughed, the women screamed, and tossed their scented hair;
The falcon whistled, staghounds bayed, the lapdog barked without,
The scullion dropped the pitcher brown, the cook railed at the lout;...

The Journey Mary Berri (Chapman) Hansbrough English

Reluctantly I laid aside my smiles,
Those little, pleasing knickknacks of the face,
And dropped the words accustomed to my tongue,
And took just half a breath in breathing’s space;
And then I drew the curtains of my eyes
And ceased to move, and rallied all...

The joy that has no stem no core, English

The joy that has no stem no core,

Nor seed that we can sow,

Is edible to longing.

But ablative to show.


By fundamental palates

Those products are preferred

Impregnable to transit

And...

The Joys of the Road Bliss Carman English

To R. H.
NOW the joys of the road are chiefly these:

A crimson touch on the hard-wood trees;
A vagrant’s morning wide and blue,
In early fall, when the wind walks, too;
A shadowy highway cool and brown,
Alluring up and enticing down
From...

The Judge is like the Owl — English

The Judge is like the Owl —

I've heard my Father tell —

And Owls do build in Oaks —

So here's an Amber Sill —


That slanted in my Path —

When going to the Barn —

And if it serve You for a House —...

The Judgement Dora Read Goodale English

Thou hast evil
And given place to the devil;
Yet so cunningly thou concealest
The thing which thou feelest,
That no eye espieth it,
Satan himself denieth it.
Go where it chooseth thee,
There is none that accuseth thee;
Neither foe...

The Juggler's Hat her Country is — English

The Juggler's Hat her Country is —

The Mountain Gorse — the Bee's!

The Jumblies Edward Lear English

They went to sea in a sieve, they did;
  In a sieve they went to sea;
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
  In a sieve they went to sea.
And when the sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, “You...

The Kearsarge James Jeffrey Roche English

    in the gloomy ocean bed
    Dwelt a formless thing, and said,
In the dim and countless eons long ago,
    “I will build a stronghold high,
    Ocean’s power to defy,
And the pride of haughty man to lay low.”

    Crept the minutes for the sad...

The Kearsarge James Jeffrey Roche English

    IN the gloomy ocean bed
    Dwelt a formless thing, and said,
In the dim and countless eons long ago,
    “I will build a stronghold high,
    Ocean’s power to defy,
And the pride of haughty man to lay low.”

    Crept the minutes for the sad...

The Kid English


The Kid


Thou little Kid didst play

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The King of Denmark’s Ride Caroline Elizabeth Sarah English

Word was brought to the Danish king
    (Hurry!)
That the love of his heart lay suffering,
And pined for the comfort his voice would bring;
    (O, ride as though you were flying!)
Better he loves each golden curl
On the brow of that Scandinavian...

The King to his soldiers before Harfleur William Shakespeare 1584 English

[1415]
From “King Henry V.,” Act III. Sc. 1.
  ONCE more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace, there ’s nothing so becomes a man,
As modest stillness, and humility:
But when the blast of war...

The King’s Highway Harriet Waters Preston 1856 English

October 6, 1892 1
I ’LL wake and watch this autumn night,
  Till the slow dawn is gray;
Lest I should miss a noble sight
  Upon the King’s highway.

For now the far-enthronèd King
  To whom all flesh shall come,
A glorious message sends, to...

The Kiss Sara Teasdale 1915 Love

I hoped that he would love me,
And he has kissed my mouth,
But I am like a stricken bird
That cannot reach the south.

For though I know he loves me,
To-night my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.
The Kiss Robert Herrick 1611 English

1.  AMONG thy fancies tell me this:
  What is the thing we call a kiss?
2.  I shall resolve ye what it is:

  It is a creature born and bred
  Between the lips all cherry red,
  By love and warm desires fed;
Chor.  And makes more soft the bridal...

The Knight Sir Walter Scott 1791 English

From “Marmion,” Canto I.
DAY set on Norham’s castled steep,
And Tweed’s fair river, broad and deep,
  And Cheviot’s mountains lone:
The battled towers, the donjon keep,
The loophole grates where captives weep,
The flanking walls that round it sweep...

The Knight’s Tomb Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1792 English

Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O’Kellyn?
Where may the grave of that good man be?—
By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn,
Under the twigs of a young birch-tree!
The oak that in summer was sweet to hear,
And rustled its leaves in the fall of...

The Laborer William Davis Gallagher English

Stand up—erect! Thou hast the form
  And likeness of thy God!—Who more?
A soul as dauntless ’mid the storm
Of daily life, a heart as warm
    And pure, as breast e’er wore.

What then?—Thou art as true a man
  As moves the human mass among;...

The Ladder of Saint Augustine Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1827 English

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
  That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
  Beneath our feet each deed of shame!

All common things, each day’s events,
  That with the hour begin and end,
Our pleasures and our...