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,"
"Though the winds be dank,"
"Your spoken words are roses fine and sweet,"
"Not o’er thy dust let there be spent"
"When summer time has come, and all"
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.
"A bee that was searching for sweets one day"
"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.
"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