Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Armies In The Fire

The lamps now glitter down the street;Faintly sound the falling feet;And the blue even slowly fallsAbout the garden trees and walls.Now in the..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later

IF you see this song, my dear,And last year's toast,I'm confoundedly in fearYou'll be serious and severeAbout the boast.Blame not that I sought such..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

An English Breeze

UP with the sun, the breeze arose,Across the talking corn she goes,And smooth she rustles far and wideThrough all the voiceful countryside.Through..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Air Of Diabelli's

CALL it to mind, O my love.Dear were your eyes as the day,Bright as the day and the sky;Like the stream of gold and the sky above,Dear were your eyes..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

After Reading "Antony And Cleopatra"

AS when the hunt by holt and fieldDrives on with horn and strife,Hunger of hopeless things pursuesOur spirits throughout life.The sea's roar fills us..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Ad Se Ipsum

DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back,When you first girded for this arduous track,And under various whimsical pretextsEndowed another with your..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Ad Quintilianum

O CHIEF director of the growing race,Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace,Me, O Quintilian, may you not forgiveBefore from labour I make haste to..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Ad Piscatorem

FOR these are sacred fishes allWho know that lord that is the lord of all;Come to the brim and nose the friendly handThat sways and can beshadow all..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Ad Olum

CALL me not rebel, though { here at every word{in what I singIf I no longer hail thee { King and Lord{ Lord and KingI have redeemed myself with all I..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Ad Nepotem

O NEPOS, twice my neigh(b)our (since at homeWe're door by door, by Flora's temple dome;And in the country, still conjoined by fate,Behold our villas..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Ad Martialem

GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could beTo enjoy our days set wholly free;To the true life together bend our mind,And take a furlough from the..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Ad Magistrum Ludi

NOW in the skyAnd on the hearth ofNow in a drawer the direful cane,That sceptre of the . . . reign,And the long hawser, that on the backOf Marsyas..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

About The Sheltered Garden Ground

ABOUT the sheltered garden groundThe trees stand strangely still.The vale ne'er seemed so deep before,Nor yet so high the hill.An awful sense of..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

A Valentine's Song

MOTLEY I count the only wearThat suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise,Who boldly smile upon despairAnd shake their bells in Grandam Grundy's..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

A Thought

It is very nice to thinkThe world is full of meat and drink,With little children saying graceIn every Christian kind of place.

© Robert Louis Stevenson

A Good Play

We built a ship upon the stairsAll made of the back-bedroom chairs,And filled it full of soft pillowsTo go a-sailing on the billows.We took a saw and..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

A Good Boy

I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day,I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.And now at last the sun is going down..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden Of Verses

For the long nights you lay awakeAnd watched for my unworthy sake:For your most comfortable handThat led me through the uneven land:For all the..

© Robert Louis Stevenson

Haze

KEEP a red heart of memoriesUnder the great gray rain sheds of the sky,Under the open sun and the yellow gloaming embers.Remember all paydays of..

© Carl Sandburg

Have Me

Have me in the blue and the sun.Have me on the open sea and the mountains.When I go into the grass of the sea floor, I will go alone.This is where I..

© Carl Sandburg

Haunts

There are places I go when I am strong.One is a marsh pool where I used to gowith a long-ear hound-dog.One is a wild crabapple tree; I was therea..

© Carl Sandburg

Hats

HATS, where do you belong?what is under you?On the rim of a skyscraper's foreheadI looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats:Swarming with a..

© Carl Sandburg

Hate

ONE man killed another. The saying between them had been 'I'd give you theshirt off my back.'The killer wept over the dead. The dead if he looks back..

© Carl Sandburg

Harvest Sunset

RED gold of pools,Sunset furrows six o'clock,And the farmer done in the fieldsAnd the cows in the barns with bulging udders.Take the cows and the..

© Carl Sandburg

Harrison Street Court

I heard a woman's lipsSpeaking to a companionSay these words:"A woman what hustlesNever keeps nothin'For all her hustlin'.Somebody always getsWhat..

© Carl Sandburg