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Ay De Mi

O bird, that used to press,
Thy head against my cheek

by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 14 lines, 1 comment
Oh that I might capture

Oh that I might capture the essence of this deep midwinter night
And fold it softly into the waft of a spring-moon quilt,

by Hwang Chin-i 7 lines
Prayer (Translated in English)

Lord Rama! My honour is in Your hands.

by Tulsidas 7 lines
My body, in its withering

My body, in its withering, may become a lovely swallow.
Under the eaves of my loved one's home I'll build my nest of twigs.

by Anonymous Asian 3 lines, 6 comments
From The Mountain

IF I, dearest Lily, did not love thee,
How this prospect would enchant my sight!

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5 lines, 4 comments
Botany Bay

Farewell to old England for ever,
Farewell to my rum culls as well,

by Anonymous Oceania 29 lines
The Pilot That Weath'd The Storm

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep,
The sky, if no longer dark tempests deform;

by George Canning 32 lines
The Mountains of Mourne

Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sight
With people here workin' by day and by night

by William Percy French 24 lines
To The Golden Heart That He Wore Around His Neck

OH thou token loved of joys now perish'd
That I still wear from my neck suspended,

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 23 lines, 2 comments
The Stars And The Babies

When the stars go to sleep,
The babies awake,

by Eliza Lee Follen 18 lines, 3 comments
Andy McElroe

My brother Andy said, that for a soldier he would go,
So great excitement came upon the house of McElroe.

by William Percy French 37 lines
Neither Do I Condemn Thee

“Neither do I condemn thee,”
O words of wondrous grace;

by Daniel Webster Moody 24 lines
To My Fairy Fancies

NAY, no longer I may hold you,
In my spirit's soft caresses,

by Sarojini Naidu 14 lines, 4 comments
O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be

O what their joy and their glory must be,
Those endless Sabbaths the blessèd ones see;

by Pierre Abelard 28 lines
Corn Grinders

O little mouse, why dost thou cry
While merry stars laugh in the sky?

by Sarojini Naidu 27 lines
Harvest Hymn

LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
Bright and munificent lord of the morn!

by Sarojini Naidu 35 lines
The Snake Charmer

WHITHER dost thou hide from the magic of my flute-call?
In what moonlight-tangled meshes of perfume,

by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
The Grand Consulation

"Ambubaiarum Collegia Pharmacopeiæ."

by George Canning 53 lines
The Rainbow

SOFT falls the mild, reviving shower
From April's changeful skies,

by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 42 lines
In Praise Of Henna

A KOKILA called from a henna-spray:
Lira! liree! Lira! liree!

by Sarojini Naidu 16 lines
Male Phoenix Pleads With Female Phoenix

This male phoenix has returned to his old home,
from roaming the four seas searching for his mate.

by Ssu-mu Hsiang-ju 14 lines, 2 comments
Langston Blues

Your lips were so laughing
Langston man

by Dudley Randall 19 lines
Song-Prayer: After King David

I shall be satisfied
With the seeing of thy face.

by George MacDonald 8 lines
True Tenderness

True tenderness is silent

by Anna Akhmatova 9 lines
Are Ye Right, There, Michael?

You may talk of Columbus's sailing
Across the Atlantical Sea

by William Percy French 50 lines
A Blackberry Bush

Behold, above the hidden root,
How white the bloom, how black the fruit!

by John Bannister Tabb 4 lines, 1 comment
Now The Day Is Over

Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh,

by Sabine Baring-Gould 32 lines, 1 comment
The Princess (The Conclusion)

So closed our tale, of which I give you all
The random scheme as wildly as it rose:

by Alfred Lord Tennyson 118 lines
Sea Song

Our boat to the waves go free,
By the bending tide, where the curled wave breaks,

by William Ellery Channing 15 lines
The Song of the Fairies in the Ruins of Heidelberg

From the woods and the glossy green,
With the wild thyme strewn;

by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 21 lines

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