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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
When I Was One-and-Twenty	A. E. Housman	1896	Love	When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.’ But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I...
When I was small, a Woman died —			English	When I was small, a Woman died — Today — her Only Boy Went up from the Potomac — His face all Victory To look at her — How slowly The Seasons must have turned Till Bullets clipt an Angle ...
When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side,			English	When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side, When Katie runs unwearied they follow on the road, When Katie kneels, their loving hands still clasp her pious knee — Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, with two so knit to thee!
When Klopstock England defied			English	If Blake could do this when he rose up from shite What might he not do if he sat down to write^[4]
When Love Comes Knocking	William Henry Gardner		English	When love comes knocking at thy gate, Bid him at once depart: He will be patient, and will wait The bidding of thy heart. Tell him he knocketh there in vain; That he may ne’er come in: He ’ll smiling leave, but come again, Thy...
When Memory is full			English	When Memory is full Put on the perfect Lid — This Morning's finest syllable Presumptuous Evening said —
When Nature Hath Betrayed the Heart That Loved Her	Sophie Jewett		English	The gray waves rock against the gray skyline, And break complaining on the long gray sand, Here where I sit, who cannot understand Their voice of pain, nor this dumb pain of mine; For I, who thought to fare till my days end, Armed sorrow-proof in...
When Night is almost done —			English	When Night is almost done — And Sunrise grows so near That we can touch the Spaces — It's time to smooth the Hair — And get the Dimples ready — And wonder we could care For that old — faded Midnight...
When One has given up One's life			English	When One has given up One's life The parting with the rest Feels easy, as when Day lets go Entirely the West The Peaks, that lingered last Remain in Her regret As scarcely as the Iodine ...
When Roses cease to bloom, Sir,			English	When Roses cease to bloom, Sir, And Violets are done — When Bumblebees in solemn flight Have passed beyond the Sun — The hand that paused to gather Upon this Summer's day Will idle lie — in Auburn — ...
When She Comes Home	James Whitcomb Riley	1869	English	When she comes home again! A thousand ways I fashion, to myself, the tenderness Of my glad welcome: I shall tremble—yes; And touch her, as when first in the old days I touched her girlish hand, nor dared upraise Mine eyes, such was my faint heart’s sweet...
When Summer Comes
When the Astronomer stops seeking			English	When the Astronomer stops seeking For his Pleiad's Face — When the lone British Lady Forsakes the Arctic Race When to his Covenant Needle The Sailor doubting turns — It will be amply early ...
When the Cows Come Home	Agnes E. Mitchell		English	WITH klingle, klangle, klingle, Way down the dusty dingle, The cows are coming home; Now sweet and clear, and faint and low, The airy tinklings come and go, Like chimings from some far-off tower, Or patterings of an April shower...
When the Grass Shall Cover Me	Ina Coolbrith		English	when the grass shall cover me, Head to foot where I am lying; When not any wind that blows, Summer blooms nor winter snows, Shall awake me to your sighing: Close above me as you pass, You will say, “How kind she was,” ...
When the Great Gray Ships Come In	Guy Wetmore Carryl		English	To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o’er mapless miles of sea, On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost isles are free, And the furthermost isles make answer, harbor, and height, and hill, Breaker and beach cry each to each, “’T is the Mother who...
When the Kye comes Hame	James Hogg	1790	English	Come, all ye jolly shepherds That whistle through the glen, I ’ll tell ye of a secret That courtiers dinna ken: What is the greatest bliss That the tongue o’ man can name? ’T is to woo a bonny lassie When the kye comes hame!...
When the Lamp is Shattered	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1812	Love	When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and...
When the Most Is Said	Mary Ainge De Vere		English	What ’s love, when the most is said? The flash of the lightning fleet, Then, darkness that shrouds the soul,—but the earth is firm to my feet; The rocks and the tides endure, the grasses and herbs return, The path to my foot is sure, and the sods to my bosom yearn. ...
When the Sultan Goes to Ispahan	Thomas Bailey Aldrich		English	when the Sultan Shah-Zaman Goes to the city Ispahan, Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, At the last of the thirty palace-gates, The flower of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room—...