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William Makepeace Thackeray's Poetry, by popularity

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  • When Moonlike Ore The Hazure Seas
    When moonlike ore the hazure seas
    In soft effulgence swells,
    25 lines
  • Roger-Bontemps
    Aux gens atrabilaires
    Pour exemple donne,
    57 lines
  • The Red Flag
    Where the quivering lightning flings
    His arrows from out the clouds,
    31 lines
  • The Minaret Bells
    Tink-a-tink, tink-a-tink,
    By the light of the star,
    13 lines
  • When The Gloom Is On The Glen
    When the moonlight's on the mountain
    And the gloom is on the glen,
    24 lines
  • The Caique
    Yonder to the kiosk, beside the creek,
    Paddle the swift caique.
    26 lines
  • The Crystal Palace
    With ganial foire
    Thransfuse me loyre,
    163 lines
  • The Rose Of Flora
    On Brady's tower there grows a flower,
    It is the loveliest flower that blows,—
    25 lines
  • The Last Irish Grievance
    As I think of the insult that's done to this nation,
    Red tears of rivinge from me fatures I wash,
    37 lines
  • The Pimlico Pavilion
    Ye pathrons of janius, Minerva and Vanius,
    Who sit on Parnassus, that mountain of snow,
    69 lines
  • The Speculators
    The night was stormy and dark,
    The town was shut up in sleep:
    59 lines
  • The Almack’s Adieu
    Your Fanny was never false-hearted,
    And this she protests and she vows,
    33 lines
  • To Mary
    I seem, in the midst of the crowd,
    The lightest of all;
    17 lines
  • The Chaplet
    A little girl through field and wood
    Went plucking flowerets here and there,
    29 lines
  • The King On The Tower
    The cold gray hills they bind me around,
    The darksome valleys lie sleeping below,
    21 lines
  • The King Of Brentford
    There was a king in Brentford,—of whom no legends tell,
    But who, without his glory,—could eat and sleep right well.
    25 lines
  • The Knightly Guerdon
    Untrue to my Ulric I never could be,
    I vow by the saints and the blessed Marie,
    25 lines
  • The Willow-Tree (Another Version)
    I.
    Long by the willow-trees
    73 lines
  • Requiescat
    Under the stone you behold,
    Buried, and coffined, and cold,
    22 lines
  • Titmarsh’s Carmen Lilliense
    LILLE, Sept. 2, 1843.
    My heart is weary, my peace is gone,
    112 lines
  • The Knight And The Lady
    There's in the Vest a city pleasant
    To vich King Bladud gev his name,
    81 lines
  • The Rose Upon My Balcony
    The rose upon my balcony the morning air perfuming,
    Was leafless all the winter time and pining for the spring;
    13 lines
  • The Organ-Boy’s Appeal
    O SIGNOR BRODERIP, you are a wickid ole man,
    You wexis us little horgin-boys whenever you can:
    45 lines
  • My Nora
    Beneath the gold acacia buds
    My gentle Nora sits and broods,
    37 lines
  • The Wolfe New Ballad Of Jane Roney And Mary Brown
    An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this veek—
    I stood in the Court of A'Beckett the Beak,
    57 lines
  • The Ballad Of Eliza Davis
    Galliant gents and lovely ladies,
    List a tail vich late befel,
    113 lines
  • The Mayfair Love-Song
    Winter and summer, night and morn,
    I languish at this table dark;
    73 lines
  • The Merry Bard
    ZULEIKAH! The young Agas in the bazaar are slim-wasted and wear
    yellow slippers. I am old and hideous. One of my eyes is out, and
    13 lines
  • On A Very Old Woman
    And thou wert once a maiden fair,
    A blushing virgin warm and young:
    17 lines
  • To His Serving Boy
    Persicos odi
    Puer, apparatus;
    15 lines
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