English poetry
We are all knapsack carriers. And none of us travels far on the road of Life without discovering certain things which we would not be without,--things that seem indispensable to our happiness. These indispensable things we put, often unconsciously, into our knapsack to carry w...
We are all knapsack carriers. And none of us travels far on the road of Life without discovering certain things which we would not be without,--things that seem indispensable to...
2. Part 2Let Me Go Where’er I Will _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 233 Pippa’s Song _Robert Browning_ 233 The Whisper of Earth _Edward J. O’Brien_ 234 Sunrise _Edgar A. Guest_ 234 Prayer Before Po...
3. Part 3Come, let’s get out of here! Out of the crush of it, Out of the bedlam and out of the rush of it, Out of the sham of it, out of the heat of it, Out of the withering, scornful co...
4. Part 4It’s a long road and sunny, and the fairest in the world-- There are peaks that rise above it in their snowy mantles curled, And it leads from the mountains through a hedge of c...
5. Part 5God, when you patterned a bird’s song, Flung on a silver string, How did you know the ecstasy That crystal call would bring? How did you think of a bubbling throat And a darling...
6. Part 6The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth’s wide regions round; It plays with the clouds; it mock...
7. Part 7I remember when befell Heartbreak fierce, intolerable, And no voice or touch but bound Deeper torment on the wound: Yet a little wind could rise Stroking cheek and tear-wet eyes...
8. Part 8I have no feud with Labor, But at the Gates of June I fling away my dusty pack And join in Youth’s glad tune. And just forgetting for a while That I am worn and gray, Go sailing...
9. Part 9The heart of a man to the heart of a maid-- Light of my tents, be fleet! Morning waits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet!
10. Part 10Spring has come up from the South again, With soft mists in her hair, And a warm wind in her mouth again, And budding everywhere. Spring has come up from the South again, And he...
11. Part 11Autumn, Autumn, take me to your heart so, The bold heart, the singing heart whose strength shall make me strong; Send my healed life faring in colors of your wearing, Your gold...
12. Part 12I believe In the sunshine and the message of the flowers, In the wind-song and the sea-song and the rain-- I believe that in summer’s greening hours God comes again.
13. Part 13A.B.C.’s in Green _Leonora Speyer_, 62 Afoot _Charles G. D. Roberts_, 39 Afoot _C. Fox-Smith_, 133 Afoot and Light-Hearted _Walt Whitman_, 9 Afternoon on a Hill _Edna St. Vincen...