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To Be In Love  (by: Yunus Emre)
To be in love with love is to gain a soul,
to sit on the throne of hearts.
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To Mr. Barbauld  (by: Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743-1825))
Come, clear thy studious looks awhile,
'T is arrant treason now
To wear that moping brow,
When I, thy empress, bid thee smile.
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To The Others  (by: Katharine Tynan)
This was the gleam then that lured from far
Your son and my son to the Holy War:
Your son and my son for the accolade
With the banner of Christ over them, in steel arrayed.
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To The Virginian Voyage  (by: Michael Drayton)
You brave heroic minds,
Worthy your country's name,
That honour still pursue,
Go, and subdue,
Whilst loit'ring hinds
Lurke here at home with shame.
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To The Virgins, Make Much Of Time  (by: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674))
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer...
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Lessons of Life Poems Books

To-Day  (by: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882))
Let kings and conquerors, saints and soldiers sleep
Late in the world,--too late perchance for fame,
Just late enough to reap abundant blame,
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Tomorrow Is Another Day  (by: Lisa G. Leming)
Sometimes I think you want to tell me
Why you are so melancholy
Deep and lonely as a grave
In an underwater cave
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Too Late  (by: Calvin Hart)
The wind blows cold across the graves,
Of those who died in sin.
Those who died without Salvation,
Never to live again.
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Touch Wood  (by: Helen Foley)
But since most lovers falter or contend,
And all their promises and all their powers
Drift towards a common grave, what chance have we?
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Vain Is The Glory  (by: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850))
Vain is the glory of the sky,
The beauty vain of field and grove...
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