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Discord In Childhood  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips,
And at night when the wind arose...
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Drunk  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
Enkindled Spring, The  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes...
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Fleurette  (by: Robert W. Service)
THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS:
My leg? It’s off at the knee.
Do I miss it? Well, some. You see
I’ve had it since I was born;
And lately a devilish corn.
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From The Arabic  (by: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822))
My faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
It panted for thee like the hind at noon
For the brooks, my love.
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Sorrow in Life Poems Books

George  (by: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953))
When George's Grandmamma was told
That George had been as good as gold,
She promised in the afternoon
To buy him an Immense BALLOON.
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German Prisoners  (by: Joseph Lee)
When first I saw you in the curious street
Like some platoon of soldier ghosts in grey,
My mad impulse was all to smite and slay,
To spit upon you—tread you ’neath my feet.
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Guilded Cage  (by: Lisa G. Leming)
The peacock's feathers make a spread
Of deepest blue with satin thread
Of gold that's spun acreoss a fan
And green that shimmers in the sun
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Hannah Binding Shoes  (by: Lucy Larcom (1826-1893))
Poor lone Hannah,
Sitting at the window, binding shoes:
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Haunted Sea, The  (by: Lisa G. Leming)
She blew in on the morning tide
And found a valley, steep and wide
Where she grew woods and patures green
And dug the beds for creeks and streams...
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