You are here: Home / poem DEAR common flower, that grow’st beside the way,Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold!First pledge of blithesome May,Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold—High-hearted buccaneers, o’erjoyed that they 5An Eldorado in the grass have found,Which not the rich earth’s ample roundMay match in wealth!—thou art more dear to meThan all the prouder summer-blooms may
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The Illustrated Treasury of Children’s Literature (1955)
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Found in A Book of Living Poems (1940)
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Who Hath a Book by Wilbur Dick Nesbit WHO HATH a bookHas friends at hand,And gold and gearAt his command; And rich estates,If he but look,Are held by himWho hath a book. Who hath a bookHas but to readAnd he may beA king indeed; His Kingdom isHis inglenook;All this is hisWho hath a book. I grew
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Beautiful Gems of Thought and Sentiment Being a Vast Treasury of Choice Productions in Poetry, Prose and Song from the Literature and Music of All Ages (1890) (Sorry about the highlighting; captured from Archive)
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Originally published on January 1, 2019 One Hundred and One Famous Poems (1929) Be Strong Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle– face it; ’tis God’s gift. Be strong! Say not, “The days are evil. Who’s
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I was looking for something today and you know how that goes. Miss M suggested Narnia. I went to the room in which Narnia should live and did not see it. Fortunately, I have an uncatalogued auxiliary library in the Apartment. Interestingly, today was the second in as many days that I have had to
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From Mr. Big Food’s Aunt Bea– The poem, “A Father’s Advice” as you can see in the fine print was written in 1902 by an Englishman. It was a Sturm, Ruger & Co ad from a magazine in about 1981. The back side of the magazine page is a Camel Lights Low tar cigarette ad,
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Today in the year 1793 Felicia Dorothea Hermans was born. That infallible source: Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet. Two of her opening lines, “The boy stood on the burning deck” and “The stately homes of England”, have acquired classic status. Her poetry was considered morally exemplary, and
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As if some little Arctic flowerUpon the polar hem—Went wandering down the LatitudesUntil it puzzled cameTo continents of summer—To firmaments of sun—To strange, bright crowds of flowers—And birds, of foreign tongue!I say, As if this little flowerTo Eden, wandered in—What then? Why nothing,Only, your inference therefrom! —Emily Dickinson (1830-1886; written c. 1860, first published 1890) The
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On such a night, or such a night,Would anybody careIf such a little figureSlipped quiet from its chair— So quiet—Oh how quiet,That nobody might knowBut that the little figureRocked softer—to and fro— On such a dawn, or such a dawn—Would anybody sighThat such a little figureToo sound asleep did lie For Chanticleer to wake it—Or
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Have you got a Brook in your little heart,Where bashful flowers blow,And blushing birds go down to drink,And shadows tremble so— And nobody knows, so still it flows,That any brook is there,And yet your little draught of lifeIs daily drunken there— Why, look out for the little brook in March,When the rivers overflow,And the snows
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Besides the Autumn poets singA few prosaic daysA little this side of the snowAnd that side of the Haze— A few incisive Mornings—A few Ascetic Eves—Gone—Mr. Bryant’s “Golden Rod”—And Mr. Thomson’s “sheaves.” Still, is the bustle in the Brook—Sealed are the spicy valves—Mesmeric fingers softly touchThe Eyes of many Elves— Perhaps a squirrel may remain—My
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The bee is not afraid of me,I know the butterfly;The pretty people in the woodsReceive me cordially. The brooks laugh louder when I come,The breezes madder play.Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?Wherefore, O summer’s day? —Emily Dickinson (1830-1886; written c. 1859, first published 1890) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Before the ice is in the pools —Before the skaters go,Or any check at nightfallIs tarnished by the snow — Before the fields have finished,Before the Christmas tree,Wonder upon wonderWill arrive to me! What we touch the hems ofOn a summer’s day —What is only walkingJust a bridge away — That which sings so —
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If recollecting were forgetting,Then I remember not.And if forgetting, recollecting,How near I had forgot.And if to miss, were merry,And to mourn, were gay,How very blithe the fingersThat gathered this, Today! —Emily Dickinson (1830-1886; If recollecting were forgetting written 1858, first published 1894) FYI. We are on page 31 of the 700+ page The Complete Poems of
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Today in the year 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert drowned. That infallible source: Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583)[1] of Compton in the parish of Marldon and of Greenway in the parish of Churston Ferrers,[2] both in Devon, England, was an adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North
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It’s all I have to bring today –This, and my heart beside –This, and my heart, and all the fields –And all the meadows wide –Be sure you count – should I forgetSome one the sum could tell –This, and my heart, and all the BeesWhich in the Clover dwell. —Emily Dickinson (1830-1886; It’s all I
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Today we turned the page. Old wood best to burn; old wine to drink; old friends to trust; and old authors to read. Alonzo of Aragon Died today in the year 1883, Ivan Turgenieff. Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. Snipetts from that infallible source: From 1838 until 1841
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What a delightful little book! You can borrow or read it at Internet Archive.
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