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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
The Daisy follows soft the Sun —			English	The daisy follows soft the sun, And when his golden walk is done, Sits shyly at his feet. He, walking, finds the flower near. "Wherefore,...
The Dalliance of the Eagles	Walt Whitman	1839	English	Skirting the river road (my forenoon walk, my rest), Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel, Four beating wings, two...
The Damp			English	WHEN I am dead, and doctors know not why, ⁠And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey each part, When they shall find your picture in my heart, ...
The Dance	Anonymous		English	[Published soon after the surrender of Cornwallis] CORNWALLIS led a country dance, The like was never seen, sir, Much retrograde and much advance, And all with General Greene, sir. They rambled up and rambled down, Joined hands, then off...
The Dancer	Ednah Proctor (Clarke) Hayes		English	Skin creamy as the furled magnolia bud That stabs the dusky shadows of her hair; Great startled eyes, and sudden-pulsing blood Staining her cheek and throat and shoulder bare. (Ah Manuelita! Lita Pepita! List the...
The Dancers	Michael Field		English	From Machaon and the Faun I DANCE and dance! Another faun, A black one, dances on the lawn. He moves with me, and when I lift My heels his feet directly shift: I can’t outdance him though I try; He dances nimbler than I. I toss my head, and...
The Dancing Faun	Robert Cameron Rogers		English	Thou dancer of two thousand years, Thou dancer of to-day, What silent music fills thine ears, What Bacchic lay, That thou shouldst dance the centuries Down their forgotten way? What mystic strain of pagan mirth Has charmed...
The Dancing of the Air	Sir John Davies	1589	English	And now behold your tender nurse, the air, And common neighbor that aye runs around, How many pictures and impressions fair Within her empty regions are there found, Which to your senses dancing do propound! For what are breath, speech, echoes, music...
The Dandelion's pallid tube			English	The Dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the Grass, And Winter instantly becomes An infinite Alas — The tube uplifts a signal Bud And then a shouting Flower, — The Proclamation of the Suns ...
The Dark Angel			English	DARK Angel, with thine aching lust To rid the world of penitence: Malicious Angel, who still dost My soul such subtile violence! Because of thee, no thought, no thing, Abides for me undesecrate: Dark...
The Daughter of Mendoza	Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar		English	O lend to me, sweet nightingale, Your music by the fountain, And lend to me your cadences, O river of the mountain! That I may sing my gay brunette, A diamond spark in coral set, Gem for a prince’s coronet— The daughter of Mendoza....
The Dawning o' the Year	Mary Elizabeth Blake		English	All ye who love the springtime—and who but loves it well When the little birds do sing, and the buds begin to swell!— Think not ye ken its beauty, or know its face so dear, Till ye look upon old Ireland, in the dawning o’ the year! For where in all the earth is...
The Day came slow — till Five o'clock —			English	The Day came slow — till Five o'clock — Then sprang before the Hills Like Hindered Rubies — or the Light A Sudden Musket — spills — The Purple could not keep the East — The Sunrise shook abroad Like...
The Day grew small, surrounded tight				The Day grew small, surrounded tight By early, stooping Night — The Afternoon in Evening deep Its Yellow shortness dropt — The Winds went out their martial ways The Leaves obtained excuse — November hung...
The Day is Coming	William Morris	1854	English	Come hither lads and hearken, for a tale there is to tell, Of the wonderful days a-coming, when all shall be better than well. And the tale shall be told of a country, a land in the midst of the sea, And folk shall call it England...
The Day she goes			English	The Day she goes Or Day she stays Are equally supreme — Existence has a stated width Departed, or at Home —
The Day that I was crowned			English	The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days — Until the Coronation came — And then — 'twas Otherwise — As Carbon in the Coal And Carbon in the Gem Are One — and yet the former Were...
The Day undressed — Herself —			English	The Day undressed — Herself — Her Garter — was of Gold — Her Petticoat — of Purple plain — Her Dimities — as old Exactly — as the World — And yet the newest Star — Enrolled upon the Hemisphere ...
The Daylight is Dying			English	The daylight is dying Away in the west, The wild birds are flying In silence to rest; In leafage and frondage Where shadows are deep, They pass to its bondage -- The kingdom of sleep. ...
The Days Gone by	James Whitcomb Riley	1869	English	O The DAYS gone by! O the days gone by! The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye; The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale; When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was...