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").
The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell SJAs I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And..
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To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
By Helen Maria WilliamsWhat crowding thoughts around me wake,What marvels in a Christmas-cake!Ah say, what strange enchantment dwellsEnclosed within..
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[little tree]
By E. E. Cummingslittle treelittle silent Christmas treeyou are so littleyou are more like a flowerwho found you in the green forestand were you..
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Mistletoe
By Walter de La MareSitting under the mistletoe(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),One last candle burning low,All the sleepy dancers gone,Just one candle..
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The Oxen
By Thomas HardyChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in..
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A Christmas Carol
By Christina RossettiIn the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow..
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Christmas Carol
By Sara TeasdaleThe kings they came from out the south, All dressed in ermine fine;They bore Him gold and chrysoprase, And gifts of precious..
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Christmas Trees
By Robert Frost(A Christmas Circular Letter)The city had withdrawn into itselfAnd left at last the country to the country;When between whirls of..
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Christ’s Nativity
By Henry VaughanAwake, glad heart! get up and sing!It is the birth-day of thy King.Awake! awake!The Sun doth shakeLight from his locks, and all the..
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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
By John MiltonThis is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King,Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother..
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Good King Wenceslas
By John Mason NealeGood King Wenceslas look’d out, On the Feast of Stephen;When the snow lay round about, Deep, and crisp, and even:Brightly..
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The Three Kings
By Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThree Kings came riding from far away,Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;Three Wise Men out of the East were they,And..
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 106
By Alfred, Lord TennysonRing out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild..
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For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
By Charles WesleyHark! the herald Angels sing,Glory to the new-born King,Peace on earth and mercy mild,God and sinner reconcil’d.Hark! the herald..
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
By AnonymousThe first day of Christmas,My true love sent to meA partridge in a pear tree.The second day of Christmas,My true love sent to meTwo..
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A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were..
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Kora In Hell: Improvisations Xii
1The browned trees are singing for my thirty-fourth birthday. Leaves are beginning to fall upon the long grass. Their cold perfume raises the..
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Kora In Hell: Improvisations I
1Fools have big wombs. For the rest?—here is pennyroyal if one knows to use it. But time is only another liar, so go along the wall a little further:..
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The Yachts
contend in a sea which the land partly enclosesshielding them from the too-heavy blowsof an ungoverned ocean which when it choosestortures the..
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From Book I, Paterson
Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Fallsits spent waters forming the outline of his back. Helies on his right side, head near the..
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Sonnet In Search Of An Author
Nude bodies like peeled logssometimes give off a sweetestodor, man and womanunder the trees in full excessmatching the cushion ofaromatic pine-drift..
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For Viola: De Gustibus
Beloved you areCaviar of CaviarOf all I love you bestO my Japanese bird nestNo herring from NorwayCan touch you for flavor. NayPimento itselfis flat..
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A Love Song
What have I to say to youWhen we shall meet?Yet—I lie here thinking of you.The stain of loveIs upon the world.Yellow, yellow, yellow,It eats into the..
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Sympathetic Portrait Of A Child
The murderer's little daughterwho is barely ten years oldjerks her shouldersright and leftso as to catch a glimpse of mewithout turning round.Her..
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It Is a Small Plant
It is a small plantdelicately branched andtapering conicallyto a point, each branchand the peak a wire forgreen pods, blind lanternsstarting upward..
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