English Poems – Page 334

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• Flowers

  I Will not have the mad Clytie,
  Whose head is turned by the sun;
  The tulip is a courtly quean, …

  Thomas Hood

• To the Cuckoo

  O Blithe new-comer! I have heard,
  I hear thee and rejoice.
  A cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, …

  William Wordsworth

• To the Skylark

  HAIL to thee, blithe spirit!
  Bird thou never wert,
  That from heaven, or near it, …

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

• The Little Beach Bird

  Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,
  Why takest thou its melancholy voice?
  Why with that brooding cry …

  Richard Henry Dana, Sr.

• The Sandpiper

  Across the narrow beach we flit,
  One little sandpiper and I;
  And fast I gather, bit by bit, …

  Celia Laighton Thaxter

• The Mocking-Bird

  He did n’t know much music
  When first he come along;
  An’ all the birds went wonderin’ …

  Frank Lebby Stanton

• Chiquita

  Beautiful! Sir, you may say so. Thar isn’t her match in the county,—
  Is thar, old gal? Chiquita, my darling, my beauty!
  Feel of that neck, sir,—thar ’s velvet! Whoa! Steady—ah, will you? you vixen! …

  Bret Harte

• The Sea

  From “Childe Harold,” Canto IV.
  THERE is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
  There is a rapture on the lonely shore, …

  Lord Byron

• The Sea

  Beautiful, sublime, and glorious;
  Mild, majestic, foaming, free,—
  Over time itself victorious, …

  Bernard Barton

• The Sea

  The Sea! the sea! the open sea!
  The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
  Without a mark, without a bound, …

  Bryan Waller Procter

• All ’s Well

  From “The British Fleet”
  DESERTED by the waning moon,
  When skies proclaim night’s cheerless noon, …

  Thomas Dibdin

• “Ye Mariners of England”

  Ye mariners of England!
  That guard our native seas;
  Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, …

  Thomas Campbell

• “A life on the ocean wave”

  A Life on the ocean wave,
  A home on the rolling deep;
  Where the scattered waters rave, …

  Epes Sargent

• Twilight at Sea

  The Twilight hours, like birds, flew by,
  As lightly and as free,
  Ten thousand stars were in the sky, …

  Amelia B. Welby

• Tacking Ship Off-Shore

  The Weather-leech of the topsail shivers,
  The bowlines strain, and the lee-shrouds slacken,
  The braces are taut, the lithe boom quivers, …

  Walter Mitchell

• Tam O’ Shanter

  A Tale
  “Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke.”
  —GAWIN DOUGLAS. …

  Robert Burns

• The Sirens’ Song

  From the “Inner Temple Masque”
  STEER hither, steer your wingèd pines,
  All beaten mariners: …

  William Browne

• Quatrains

  Moonlight Song OF THE MOCKING-BIRD
  EACH golden note of music greets
  The listening leaves, divinely stirred, …

  William Hamilton Hayne

• To-morrow

  From “Irene”
  TO-MORROW’S action! can that hoary wisdom,
  Borne down with years, still doat upon to-morrow! …

  Samuel Johnson

• Ave atque Vale

  Farewell, my Youth! for now we needs must part,
  For here the paths divide;
  Here hand from hand must sever, heart from heart,— …

  Rosamund Marriott Watson

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