By Sophie Jewett Small fellowship of daily commonplaceWe hold together, dear, constrained to goDiverging ways. Yet day by day I knowMy life is sweeter for thy life’s sweet grace;And if we meet but for a moment’s space,Thy touch, thy word, sets all the world aglow.Faith soars serener, haunting doubts shrink low,Abashed before the sunshine of … Read more
By Robert Burns O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat’s newly sprung in June;O my Luve is like the melodyThat’s sweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am I;And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang … Read more
By Anne Bradstreet If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;If ever wife was happy in a man,Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,Or all the riches that the East doth hold.My love is such that … Read more
by Mary Tighe Sweet is the strain whose soothing powerMay charm the solitary hour,And bid the heart o’er sorrow bornForget to heave the sigh forlorn. But ah! more sweet the voice that speaksAffection’s truth when friendship wakes,And bids the heart exulting riseTo catch the rapture of the eyes. Then let the song its tribute payTo … Read more
By Julia Carney Little drops of water,Little grains of sand,Make the mighty oceanAnd the pleasant land. So the little minutes,Humble though they be,Make the mighty agesOf eternity. So our little errorsLead the soul awayFrom the paths of virtueFar in sin to stray. Little deeds of kindness,Little words of love,Make our earth an Eden,Like the heaven … Read more
by Calef Brown I give you a windflower.This day is yours.Take it with laughter,And with tears,And with the faithThat love endures. The years are manyThat lie ahead—May they be gentleAs the rose is red,As the lily is white,As the violet is blue,And may they be kindAs I am to you.
By Edward Lear There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, “It is just as I feared!—Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!”
By Laura E. Richards Once there was an elephant,Who tried to use the telephant—No! no! I mean an elephoneWho tried to use the telephone— (Dear me! I am not certain quiteThat even now I’ve got it right.) Howe’er it was, he got his trunkEntangled in the telephunk;The more he tried to get it free,The louder … Read more
By Lewis Carroll ’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch!” He took his vorpal sword in hand;Long time the manxome foe he sought—So … Read more
Author Unknown A stargazer out late at night,With eyes and thoughts turned both upright,Tumbled by chance into a well(A dismal story this to tell);He roared and sobbed and roared again,And cursed the ‘Bear’ and ‘Charles’s Wain.’His woeful cries a neighbor brought,Less learned, but wiser far in thought:“My friend,” quoth he, “you’re much misled,With stars to … Read more