Recent Posts Tagged With '20th c'

• The Birds

  Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 14:32 in christianity, Nature, 20th c, wod n-z, belloc h.

  Let this tender poem charm your day! --Description: 2, Belloc H., Christianity, Nature-- When Jesus Christ was four years old The angels brought Him toys of gold, Which no man ever had bought or sold. And yet with these He would not play. He m...

• Life Lesson

  Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 16:58 in children, hope, encouragement, childhood, 20th c, riley j.w.

  Let this delightful poem charm your day! --Description: 20th C, Riley J.W., Childhood, Children, Encouragement,Hope-- There! little girl; don't cry! They have broken your doll, I know; And your tea-set blue, And your play-house, too, Are th...

• The Bear

  Posted on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 at 10:15 in life, Nature, humanity, frost r., 20th c, wod a-m

  Let this insightful poem season your day! --Description: 20th C, Frost R., Life, Nature, Humanity -- The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover And its choke cherries lips to kiss good-bye, Then lets...

• The Cap and Bells

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 16:34 in love, adoration, 20th c, yeats w., wod a-m

  Let this delightful poem charm your day! --Description: 20th C, Yeats W. B., Adoration, Love-- The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill. It rose in a straight blue g...

• i have found what you are like

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 16:01 in love, Nature, adoration, 20th c, cummings e.

  Let this tender poem charm your day! --Description: 20th C, Cummings E.E., Adoration, Love, Nature-- i have found what you are like the rain, (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields easily the pale club of the w...

• Our Singing Strength

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 17:23 in Nature, seasons, frost r., 20th c, wod n-z

  Let this delightful poem charm your day! --Description: 20th C, Frost R., Nature, Seasons-- It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm The flakes could find no landing place to form. Hordes spent themselves to make it wet and cold, And still t...

• A Miracle For Breakfast

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 13:34 in life, humor, humanity, 20th c, bishop e., wod a-m

  Let this fascinating poem motivate your Monday! --Description: 20th C, Bishop E., Humanity, Humor, Life-- At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee, waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb that was going to be served from a certain balcony --l...

• Design

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 11:43 in life, Nature, death, frost r., 20th c

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Frost R., Death, Life, Nature-- I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth-- Assorted characters of de...

• A Thanksgiving Poem

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 11:27 in christianity, holidays, thanks, contentment, 20th c, wod n-z, dunbar p.l.

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL MY WONDERFUL READERS! Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Dunbar P.L., Christianity, Contentment, Holidays, Peace, Thanks-- The sun hath shed its kindly light, Our harvesting is gladly oâ€...

• Thanksgiving

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 12:37 in peace, thanks, contentment, 20th c, wilcox e.

  Let this delightful poem charm your day! --Description: 20th C, Wilcox E.W., Contentment, Holidays, Peace, Thanks-- We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the daisies; For blessings common in our sight We rarely offer praises. We sigh ...

• Barter

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 10:28 in life, joy, contentment, 20th c, teasedale s.

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Teasedale S., Contentment, Joy, Life-- Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And child...

• A Peck of Gold

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 10:32 in children, Nature, childhood, frost r., 20th c, wod n-z

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Frost R., Children, Childhood, Nature-- Dust always blowing about the town, Except when sea-fog laid it down, And I was one of the children told Some of the blowing dust was gold....

• Love Is Enough

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 12:33 in love, contentment, 20th c, wilcox e., wod a-m

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Wilcox E.W., Contentment, Love-- Love is enough. Let us not ask for gold. Wealth breeds false aims, and pride and selfishness; In those serene, Arcadian days of old Men gave no tho...

• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 10:51 in life, death, patriotism, 20th c, yeats w., wod a-m

  Let this patriotic poem please your day! --Description: 20th C, Yeats, W.B., Death, Life, Patriotism-- I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; My coun...

• Television

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 07:35 in children, fantasy, childhood, 20th c, wod a-m, dahl r.

  This humorous poem will tickle you today! --Description: 20th C, Dahl R., Children, Childhood, Fantasy-- The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set -- Or bett...

• Clenched Soul

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 10:02 in love, sorrow, 20th c, neruda p.

  This romantic poem will rejuvenate your day! --Description: 20th C, Neruda P., Love, Sorrow-- We have lost even this twilight. No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world. I have seen from my window the fi...

• The Rum Tum Tugger

  Posted on Friday October 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 in children, humor, Nature, 20th c, eliot t.s., wod m-z

  May this adorable poem tickle your Friday! --Description: 20th C, Eliot T.S., Children, Humor, Nature-- The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a f...

• And Death Shall Have No Dominion

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 10:42 in death, hope, thomas d., 20th c

  May the words of this powerful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Thomas D., Death, Hope-- And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean...

• Morning

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 10:57 in Nature, seasons, 20th c, wod n-z, dunbar p.l.

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Dunbar P.L., Nature, Seasons-- The mist has left the greening plain, The dew-drops shine like fairy rain, The coquette rose awakes again Her lovely self adorning. The Wind...

• Acquainted With The Night

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 09:33 in life, Nature, night, frost r., 20th c, wod a-m

  Enjoy this Frost poem on your break today! --Description: 20th C, Frost R., Life, Nature, Night-- I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked ...

• Beautiful Old Age

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 09:28 in aging, humanity, 20th c, lawrence d.h., wod a-m

  Let these charming words enliven your day! --Description: 20th C, Lawrence D.H., Humanity, Aging-- It ought to be lovely to be old to be full of the peace that comes of experience and wrinkled ripe fulfillment. The wrinkled smile of completeness...

• Her Dilemma

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 11:02 in love, death, humanity, 20th c, hardy t., wod a-m

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Hardy T., Death, Love-- The two were silent in a sunless church, Whose mildewed walls, uneven paving-stones, And wasted carvings passed antique research; And nothing broke the clo...

• Daddy Fell Into The Pond

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 17:04 in children, humor, parenting, 20th c, noyes a.

  May this humorous poem bring joy to your day! --Description: 2, Noyes A., Humor, Children, Parenting-- Everyone grumbled. The sky was grey. We had nothing to do and nothing to say. We were nearing the end of a dismal day, And then there seemed...

• Houses of Dreams

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 12:38 in dreams, hope, 20th c, teasedale s., wod n-z

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Teasedale S., Dreams., Hope-- You took my empty dreams And filled them every one With tenderness and nobleness, April and the sun. The old empty dreams Where my thoughts would thro...

• Reason and Passion XV

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 09:09 in Passion, peace, 20th c, wod n-z, gibran k.

  May this inspirational poem lend peace to your day! --Description: 20th C, Gibran K., Passion, Peace-- And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion." And he answered saying: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, u...

• After Love

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 10:44 in love, separation, disillusion, 20th c, teasedale s.

  May this thoughtful poem give pause to your day! --Description: 20th C, Teasedale S., Disillusion, Love-- There is no magic any more, We meet as other people do, You work no miracle for me Nor I for you. You were the wind and I the sea -- There...

• If I Could Tell You

  Posted on Wednesday August 26th, 2009 at 10:57 in love, 20th c, auden w., wod n-z

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Auden W.H., Love -- Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. If we should weep when clowns put ...

• Your Laughter

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 11:57 in love, joy, adoration, 20th c, neruda p., wod a-m

  May this joyful poem make your day sparkle! --Description: 20th C, Neruda P., Adoration, Joy, Love-- Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. Do not take away the rose, the lance flower that you p...

• Sailing to Byzantium

  Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 09:27 in life, aging, fantasy, yeats w.b., 20th c

  Let this delightful poem inspire your day! --Description: 20th C, Yeats W.B., Aging, Fantasy, Life-- I That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees ---Those dying generations---at their song, The salmon-fal...

• Ephemera

  Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 10:56 in love, separation, yeats w.b., 20th c, wod n-z

  May this lovely poem enchant your day! --Description: 20th C, Yeats, W. B., Love, Separation-- "Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids, Because our love is waning." And then She: "Although our love is...