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Emmy by Arthur Symons

Emmy's exquisite youth and her virginal air,
Eyes and teeth in the flash of a musical smile,
suggested by Eusebius
E Tenebris by Oscar Wilde

COME down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,
For I am drowning in a stormier sea
suggested by Eusebius
The Ballad of Dick Turpin by Alfred Noyes

The daylight moon looked quietly down
Through the gathering dusk on London town
suggested by rufina caraid
Feelings by Spike Milligan

There must be a wound!
No one can be this hurt
suggested by rufina caraid
England's Heart by Martin Farquhar Tupper

England's heart! Oh never fear
The sturdy good old stock;
suggested by gregorcles
Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Christopher Dowson

Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
suggested by Eusebius
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone
suggested by Eusebius
I have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
suggested by Eusebius
Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
suggested by Eusebius
XXI: Bredon Hill by A E Housman

In summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
suggested by Eusebius
Shakspeare. (An Ode For His Three-Hundredth Birthday) by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Immortal! risen to thy Rest,
Immortal! throned among the Blest,
suggested by gregorcles
The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood

One more Unfortunate
Weary of breath
suggested by Eusebius
Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray

Twas on a lofty vase's side,
Where China's gayest art had dyed
suggested by rufina caraid
To Emily Dickinson by Harold Hart Crane

You who desired so much--in vain to ask--
Yet fed you hunger like an endless task,
suggested by rufina caraid
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats

Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering?
suggested by Eusebius
From The Dark Tower by Countee Cullen

We shall not always plant while others reap
The golden increment of bursting fruit,
suggested by Eusebius
Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson

The lamps now glitter down the street;
Faintly sound the falling feet;
suggested by Eusebius
Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
suggested by Eusebius
Dream-Pedlary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

If there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy?
suggested by Eusebius
The Listeners by Walter de la Mare

"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door
suggested by Eusebius
The Parable Of The Old Man And The Young by Wilfred Owen

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
suggested by Eusebius
Lost on the Prairie by William Topaz McGonagall

In one of fhe States of America, some years ago,
There suddenly came on a violent storm of snow,
suggested by rufina caraid
I Know Not Where They Have Laid Him by G A Studdert-Kennedy

I wouldn't mind if I only knowed
The spot where they'd laid my lad;
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
There Is No Indispensable Man by Anonymous British

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego's in bloom
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
Analysis Of Baseball by May Swenson

It’s about
the ball,
suggested by rufina caraid
America by Claude McKay

Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
suggested by rufina caraid
A Blessing by James Wright

Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
suggested by rufina caraid
Underwater Autumn by Richard F Hugo

Now the summer perch flips twice and glides
a lateral fathom at the first cold rain,
suggested by rufina caraid
Playthings by Rabindranath Tagore

Child, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all the morning.
I smile at your play with that little bit of a broken twig.
suggested by rufina caraid
When You Are Not Surprised by Conrad Potter Aiken

When you are not surprised, not surprised,
nor leap in imagination from sunlight into shadow
suggested by rufina caraid
The Lowering by May Swenson

The flag is folded
lengthwise, and lengthwise again,
suggested by rufina caraid
The Pessimist by Benjamin Franklin King Jr

Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
Alliterations by Anonymous British

Ten thousand trippers took twenty three trains
To take them to Trincomalee.
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
"Only A Baby Small" by Matthias Barr

Only a baby small,
Dropped from the skies,
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
Optimism by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woes. No path is wholly rough;
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
It Couldn’t Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But, he with a chuckle replied
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
Thinking by Walter D Wintle

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
A Man by Edgar Albert Guest

A man doesn't whine at his losses,
A man doesn't whimper and fret,
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
The Secret by G A Studdert-Kennedy

You were askin' 'ow we sticks it,
Sticks this blarsted rain and mud,
suggested by I-Like-Rhymes
My legacy by Taigu Ryokan

My legacy -- What will it be?
suggested by rufina caraid
Song Of The Open Road by Walt Whitman

AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
suggested by Yemassee
Mr Nobody by Walter de la Mare

I know a funny little man,
As quiet as a mouse,
suggested by Yemassee
The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate Cole

Today, as I rode by,
I saw the brown leaves dropping from their tree
suggested by rufina caraid
When A Man Gets Old by Holman Francis Day

The clash and the clatter of mowing-machines
Float up where the old man stands and leans
suggested by rufina caraid
Of Modern Poetry by Wallace Stevens

The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
suggested by rufina caraid

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