Poems about Lyrics

• Candy Man

  Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
  Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two

  by Roald Dahl 25 lines, 9 comments
• Down By The Salley Gardens

  DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
  She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white

  by William Butler Yeats 12 lines, 6 comments
• Abdul Abulbul Amir

  The sons of the Prophet are brave men and bold
  And quite unaccustomed to fear,

  by William Percy French 56 lines, 6 comments
• I Am Not Skilled To Understand

  I am not skilled to understand
  What God hath willed, what God hath planned;

  by Dora Greenwell 21 lines, 4 comments
• I'm So Frightfully Unhappy" (Verse XXXIII)

  I'm so frightfully unhappy,
  I feel, oh stars, I am dying!:

  by Jose Marti 52 lines, 2 comments
• In Darkness Let Me Dwell

  In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,
  The roof despair to bar all cheerful light from me,

  by John Dowland 5 lines, 2 comments
• Indian Love Song

  LIKE a serpent to the calling voice of flutes,
  Glides my heart into thy fingers, O my Love!

  by Sarojini Naidu 14 lines
• The Princess (part 7)

  So was their sanctuary violated,
  So their fair college turned to hospital;

  by Alfred Lord Tennyson 351 lines, 3 comments
• Memphis Blues

  Watcha gonna do when Memphis on fire,
  Memphis on fire, Mistah Preachin' Man?

  by Sterling A Brown 66 lines, 2 comments
• Do I Love Thee

  I ask my heart, "Do I love thee?"
  But how can I e'er forget

  by Thomas Edward Spencer 16 lines, 1 comment
• Come, Heavy Sleep

  Come, heavy sleep, the image of true death;
  And close up these my weary weeping eyes:

  by John Dowland 12 lines, 1 comment
• The Fight With The Dragon

  Why run the crowd? What means the throng
  That rushes fast the streets along?

  by Friedrich von Schiller 300 lines, 1 comment
• The Flaming Heart

  Well meaning readers! you that come as freinds
  And catch the pretious name this peice pretends;

  by Richard Crashaw 108 lines
• Wandering Singers

  WHERE the voice of the wind calls our wandering feet,
  Through echoing forest and echoing street,

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• The Battle Of Argoed Llwyfain

  There was a great battle Saturday morning
  From when the sun rose until it grew dark.

  by Taliesin 21 lines
• The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre

  At a relic aul' croft upon the hill,
  Roon the neuk frae Sprottie's mill,

  by Robert Burns 50 lines, 1 comment
• Village Song

  HONEY, child, honey, child, whither are you going?
  Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes blowing?

  by Sarojini Naidu 16 lines, 1 comment
• My Little Doll Rose

  I have a little doll;
  I take care of her clothes;

  by Eliza Lee Follen 25 lines, 2 comments
• An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife

  Peace, good reader, do not weep;
  Peace, the lovers are asleep.

  by Richard Crashaw 16 lines, 5 comments
• Death of Ben Hall

  Come all Australia's sons to me --
  A hero has been slain

  by Anonymous Oceania 40 lines
• Long Track Blues

  Lanterns a-swingin',
  An' a long freight leaves the yard;

  by Sterling A Brown 38 lines
• Indian Weavers

  WEAVERS, weaving at break of day,
  Why do you weave a garment so gay? . . .

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines, 1 comment
• Cradle Song

  From groves of spice,
  O'er fields of rice,

  by Sarojini Naidu 18 lines, 3 comments
• Song

  I am weaving a song of waters,
  Shaken from firm, brown limbs,

  by Gwendolyn Bennett 40 lines, 1 comment
• Bound No’th Blues

  Goin’ down the road, Lawd,
  Goin’ down the road.

  by Langston Hughes 26 lines, 1 comment
• Rungate Rungate

  Tell me, Ezekiel, oh tell me do you see
  nailed Jehovah coming to deliver me?

  by Robert Hayden 75 lines
• Go Forth My Heart

  Go forth, my hert, with my lady;
  Loke that we spare no business

  by Charles I de Valois, Duke of Orleans 13 lines, 4 comments
• None Other Lamb

  None other Lamb, none other Name,
  None other hope in Heav’n or earth or sea,

  by Christina Georgina Rossetti 13 lines
• Under The Violets

  HER hands are cold; her face is white;
            No more her pulses come and go;

  by Oliver Wendell Holmes 46 lines, 1 comment
• Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I - Grave-Digger’s Song

  THE CRAB, the bullace, and the sloe,
  They burgeon in the Spring;

  by Alfred Austin 35 lines

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