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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
The Chariot				We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground ; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound. Since then 't is centuries ; but each Feels shorter than the day I first...
The Chariot of Cuchullin	Anonymous		English	From the Ancient Irish by William Hamilton Drummond From “The Breach of the Plain of Muirhevney” THE CAR, 1 light-moving, I behold, Adorned with gems and studs of gold; Ruled by the hand of skilful guide, Swiftly—and swiftly—see it glide...
The Cheerful Giver			English	"WHAT shall I render Thee! Father Supreme, For thy rich gifts, and this the best of all?" Said a young mother, as she fondly watched Her sleeping babe. There was an answering voice ...
The Chemical conviction			English	The Chemical conviction That Nought be lost Enable in Disaster My fractured Trust — The Faces of the Atoms If I shall see How more the Finished Creatures Departed me!
The Chess-Board	E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton		English	My little love, do you remember, Ere we were grown so sadly wise, Those evenings in the bleak December, Curtained warm from the snowy weather, When you and I played chess together, Checkmated by each other’s eyes? Ah! still I see your soft...
The Child	John Banister Tabb		English	I long, long before the Babe could speak, When he would kiss his mother’s cheek And to her bosom press, The brightest angels standing near Would turn away to hide a tear— For they are motherless. II WHERE were ye, Birds,...
The Child in the Garden	Henry Van Dyke		English	From The Atlantic Magazine WHEN to the garden of untroubled thought I came of late, and saw the open door, And wished again to enter, and explore The sweet, wild ways with stainless bloom inwrought, And bowers of innocence with beauty fraught,...
The Child in the Street	John James Piatt		English	Even as tender parents lovingly Send a dear child in some true servant’s care Forth in the street, for larger light and air, Feeling the sun her guardian will be, And dreaming with a blushful pride that she Will earn sweet smiles and glances every-where,...
The Child's faith is new —			English	The Child's faith is new — Whole — like His Principle — Wide — like the Sunrise On fresh Eyes — Never had a Doubt — Laughs — at a Scruple — Believes all sham But Paradise — ...
The Child's Wish Granted	George Parsons Lathrop		English	Do you remember, my sweet, absent son, How in the soft June days forever done You loved the heavens so warm and clear and high; And, when I lifted you, soft came your cry,— “Put me ’way up,—’way, ’way up in blue sky”? I laughed and said I could not,—set...
The Children	Charles Monroe Dickinson		English	When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, The little ones gather around me, To bid me good night and be kissed: Oh, the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace! Oh, the smiles...
The Children	Charles M. Dickinson		English	When the lessons and tasks are all ended, And the school for the day is dismissed, And the little ones gather around me, To bid me good night and be kissed; O the little white arms that encircle My neck in their tender embrace! O the smiles...
The Children's Hour	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1827	English	Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s occupations, That is known as the Children’s Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is...
The Children’s Church	Karl von Gerock		English	From the German by James Freeman Clarke THE BELLS of the churches are ringing,— Papa and mamma have both gone,— And three little children sit singing Together this still Sunday morn. While the bells toll away in the steeple, Though too...
The Chimes of England	Arthur Cleveland Coxe		English	The Chimes, the chimes of Motherland, Of England green and old, That out from fane and ivied tower A thousand years have tolled; How glorious must their music be As breaks the hallowed day, And calleth with a seraph’s voice ...
The Chimney Sweeper (Notebook)				The Chimney Sweeper ^[1] A little black thing among the snow Crying "'weep, 'weep!" in notes of woe. "Where are thy father & mother? say?" "...
The Choice (Pomfret)			English	If heaven the grateful liberty would give That I might choose my method how to live, And all those hours propitious fate should lend, In blissful ease and satisfaction spend: Near some fair town I'd have a private seat, ...
The Christ	Richard Chenevix Trench		English	He might have reared a palace at a word, Who sometimes had not where to lay His head. Time was when He who nourished crowds with bread, Would not one meal unto Himself afford. He healed another’s scratch, His own side bled; Side, hands and feet with cruel...
The Chronicle	Abraham Cowley	1638	English	Margarita first possessed, If I remember well, my breast, Margarita first of all; But when awhile the wanton maid With my restless heart had played, Martha took the flying ball. Martha soon did it resign To the beauteous Catharine....
The City in the Sea	Edgar Allan Poe	1829	English	Lo! death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that...