Selected American and British Poems
Piping Down the Valleys Wild
by William Blake
A poem about the speaker as a piper who writes his songs down so that every child may enjoy them.
A poem about the speaker as a piper who writes his songs down so that every child may enjoy them.
They please me not—these solemn songs
The Florida Landscape changes as sunrise moves to sunset.
The Whip-Poor-Will sings a sad song throughout the night.
"Heart of my heart, the day is chill,"
"No matter what you call it, Whether genius, or art,"
"My cot was down by a cypress grove,"
"Your spoken words are roses fine and sweet,"
"Not o’er thy dust let there be spent"
"When summer time has come, and all"
"Though the winds be dank,"
A poem about escaping from the sorrows and loneliness of the night by reading great works of literature
"The rain streams down like harp–strings from the sky;"
I sit upon the old sea wall,
A funny limerick about a pieman and his wares.
"I ‘ve been watchin’ of ‘em, parson,"
"On the wide veranda white,"
A gulf storm evokes memories of childhood.
The author admires the ocean from Florida's Coast.
"A bee that was searching for sweets one day"
"When the corn ’s all cut and the bright stalks shine"
The travels of a tattered and worn songbook
Nature and the movement of clouds at dusk ignite the author's imagination.
The aftermath of a hurricane is described.
Prometheus stole from Heaven the sacred fire