Dictionary Poems

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,Till rising and gliding out I … Continued

So bashful when I spied her,So pretty, so ashamed!So hidden in her leaflets,Lest anybody find; So breathless till I passed her,So helpless when I turnedAnd bore her, struggling, blushing,Her simple haunts beyond! For whom I robbed the dingle,For whom betrayed the dell,Many will doubtless ask me,But I shall never tell! – So bashful when I … Continued

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. Discuss Charlotte Bronte

Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility. We passed the school where children played,Their lessons scarcely done;We passed the fields of gazing grain,We passed the setting sun. … Continued

Upon a lonely mountain, there lived two hermits who worshipped Godand loved one another. Now these two hermits had one earthen bowl, and this was their onlypossession. One day an evil spirit entered into the heart of the older hermitand he came to the younger and said, It is long that we havelived together. The … Continued

Long, too long America,Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn’d from joys and prosperity only,But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,(For who except myself has yet conceiv’d what your … Continued

Oh, I should like to ride the seas,A roaring buccaneer;A cutlass banging at my knees,A dirk behind my ear.And when my captives’ chains would clankI’d howl with glee and drink,And then fling out the quivering plankAnd watch the beggars sink. I’d like to straddle gory decks,And dig in laden sands,And know the feel of throbbing … Continued

Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae,Who ate a monstrous whale?She thought she could,She said she would,So she started in right at the tail. And everyone said,You’re much too small,But that didn’t bother Melinda at all,She took little bites and she shewed very slow,Just like a little girl should… …and eighty-nine years later she ate … Continued

The rose did caper on her cheek,Her bodice rose and fell,Her pretty speech, like drunken men,Did stagger pitiful. Her fingers fumbled at her work, —Her needle would not go;What ailed so smart a little maidIt puzzled me to know, Till opposite I spied a cheekThat bore another rose;Just opposite, another speechThat like the drunkard goes; … Continued

BLOOM upon the Mountain, stated,Blameless of a name.Efflorescence of a Sunset–Reproduced, the same. Seed, had I, my purple sowingShould endow the Day,Not a tropic of the twilightShow itself away. Who for tilling, to the MountainCome, and disappear–Whose be Her renown, or fading,Witness, is not here. While I state–the solemn petalsFar as North and East,Far as … Continued