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Title	Poet	Collection	Body
What Twigs We held by —		English	What Twigs We held by — Oh the View When Life's swift River striven through We pause before a further plunge To take Momentum — As the Fringe Upon a former Garment shows The Garment cast...
What was his Creed?	Anonymous	English	“Religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.”—SWEDENBORG. HE left a load of anthracite In front of a poor woman’s door, When the deep snow, frozen and white, Wrapped street and square, mountain and moor. That was his deed...
What Was My Dream?		English	What was my dream? Though consciousness be clear, I hold no memory of the potent thing, Yet feel the force of it—a creeping fear, A hope, a horror, and a sense austere Of revelation, stayed at thought’s extreme: As when the wind is passed, the...
What we see we know somewhat		English	What we see we know somewhat Be it but a little — What we don't surmise we do Though it shows so fickle I shall vote for Lands with Locks Granted I can pick 'em — Transport's doubtful Dividend ...
What would I give to see his face?		English	What would I give to see his face? I'd give — I'd give my life — of course — But that is not enough! Stop just a minute — let me think! I'd give my biggest Bobolink! That makes two — Him — and Life! You...
Whatever it is — she has tried it —		English	Whatever it is — she has tried it — Awful Father of Love — Is not Ours the chastising — Do not chastise the Dove — Not for Ourselves, petition — Nothing is left to pray — When a subject is finished...
When	Sarah Chauncey Woolsey	English	If I were told that I must die to-morrow, That the next sun Which sinks should bear me past all fear and sorrow For any one, All the fight fought, all the short journey through, What should I do? I do not think...
When a Lover is a Beggar		English	When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee — When a Lover is an Owner Different is he — What he begged is then the Beggar — Oh disparity — Bread of Heaven resents bestowal Like an...
When a Man has Married a Wife		English	* * * ^[2] When a Man has Married a Wife he finds out whether Her knees & elbows are only glued together
When Almonds Bloom	Milicent Washburn Shinn	English	When almond buds unclose, Soft white and tender rose,— A swarm of white moth things, With sunset on their wings, That fluttering settle down On branches chill and brown; When all the sky is blue, And up from grasses new Blithe...
When Bells stop ringing — Church — begins			When Bells stop ringing — Church — begins The Positive — of Bells — When Cogs — stop — that's Circumference — The Ultimate — of Wheels.
When Dacey Rode the Mule			'Twas to a small, up-country town, When we were boys at school, There came a circus with a clown, Likewise a bucking mule. The clown announced a scheme they had Spectators for to bring -- They'd give a...
When Diamonds are a Legend,			When Diamonds are a Legend, And Diadems — a Tale — I Brooch and Earrings for Myself, Do sow, and Raise for sale — And tho' I'm scarce accounted, My Art, a Summer Day — had Patrons — Once — it was a...
When Etna basks and purrs		English	When Etna basks and purrs Naples is more afraid Than when she show her Garnet Tooth — Security is loud —
When Even Cometh On	Lucy Evangeline Tilley	English	The mother-heart doth yearn at eventide, And, wheresoe’er the straying ones may roam, When even cometh on they all fare home. ’Neath feathered sheltering the brood doth hide; In eager flights the birds wing to their nest, While happy lambs and children...
When I count the seeds			When I count the seeds That are sown beneath, To bloom so, bye and bye — When I con the people Lain so low, To be received as high — When I believe the garden Mortal shall not see — ...
When I have seen the Sun emerge			When I have seen the Sun emerge From His amazing House — And leave a Day at every Door A Deed, in every place — Without the incident of Fame Or accident of Noise — The Earth has seemed to me a Drum,...
When I hoped I feared —		English	When I hoped I feared — Since I hoped I dared Everywhere alone As a Church remain — Spectre cannot harm — Serpent cannot charm — He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him —
When I hoped, I recollect		English	When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood — At a Window facing West — Roughest Air — was good — Not a Sleet could bite me — Not a frost could cool — Hope it was that kept me warm — ...
When I see a Rubens Rembrant Correggio			*** * *** When I see a Rubens Rembrant Correggio I think of the Crippled Harry & Slobbering Joe And then I question thus are artists rules To be drawn from the works of two manifest fools ...