Old Poetry Poetry • Poets • Essays • Forums •

Book: Roadside Poems

1 - 17 of 17
  • Better Things
    Better to smell the violet
    Than sip the glowing wine;
    36 lines
  • An Old Sermon With a New Text
    My wife contrived a fleecy thing
    Her husband to infold,
    72 lines
  • A Dream of Waking
    A child was born in sin and shame,
    Wronged by his very birth,
    56 lines
  • Little Elfie
    I have a puppet-jointed child,
    She's but three half-years old;
    44 lines
  • This World
    Thy world is made to fit thine own,
    A nursery for thy children small,
    48 lines
  • Reciprocity
    Her mother, Elfie older grown,
    One evening, for adieu,
    16 lines
  • What The Lord Saith
    Trust my father, saith the eldest-born;
    I did trust him ere the earth began;
    20 lines
  • The Shadows
    My little boy, with smooth, fair cheeks,
    And dreamy, large, brown eyes,
    24 lines
  • Zacchaeus
    To whom the heavy burden clings,
    It yet may serve him like a staff;
    28 lines
  • The Child-Mother
    Heavily slumbered noonday bright
    Upon the lone field, glory-dight,
    132 lines
  • A Manchester Poem
    'Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad.
    The cloud has fallen, and filled with fold on fold
    263 lines
  • He Needed Not
    Of whispering trees the tongues to hear,
    And sermons of the silent stone;
    84 lines
  • How Shall He Sing Who Hath No Song?
    How shall he sing who hath no song?
    He laugh who hath no mirth?
    38 lines
  • The Sheep and The Goat
    The thousand streets of London gray
    Repel all country sights;
    50 lines
  • Saint Peter
    O Peter, wherefore didst thou doubt?
    Indeed the spray flew fast about,
    40 lines
  • The Wakeful Sleeper
    When things are holding wonted pace
    In wonted paths, without a trace
    60 lines
  • After Thomas Kempis
    I.
    Who follows Jesus shall not walk
    90 lines
1 - 17 of 17

Add a comment

    : Comment:

1 - 17 of 17