Lyric verse

Lyric Laughter : Society verse : Good sportsmanship ; Study habits ; To have and too old ; So soon? ; The Love life (and death) of a moose / Richard Armour

The Naughty preposition / Morris Bishop

Marble-top / E.B. White

The Welsh / E.V. Lucas

The Perfect husband ; Celery ; This is going to hurt just a little bit / Ogden Nash

Limericks

Parodies : Jenny kiss'd me / Leigh Hunt

"Jenny kiss'd me when we met" / Paul Dehn

"Such stuff as dreams" / Franklin P. Adams

Triolets : The Kiss / Austin Dobson

Triolet / Wiiliam Ernest Henley.

Triolet against sisters / Phyllis McGinley

Triolet / Robert Bridges

Satire : Reflections dental / Phyllis McGinley

Greatest show on Earth / Felicia Lamport

Riesumie / Dorothy Parker

Macabre Humor : Patience ; Aunt Eliza / Harry Graham

Egoism / W. Craddle

Infant innocence / A.E. Housman

Nonsense : 'Tis midnight / anonymous

I wish that my room had a floor / Gelett Burgess

"The Space child's Mother Goose" / Frederick Winsor

Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll.

Emotional Outlet And Growth : A Red, red rose / Robert Burns

How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sea love / Charlotte Mew

Mexican serenade / Arthur Guiterman

Nurse / Frances Cornford

"Breathes there the man" / Walter Scott

Home thoughts from abroad / Robert Browning

My heart leaps up / William Wordsworth

Four little foxes / Lew Sarett

Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pippa's song Robert Browning

A Dirge / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lament of a man for his son / Mary Austin

Dirge without music / Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Carol of the bird / Walt Whitman

Crossing the bar / Alfred Tennyson

High flight / John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Untitled / George Herbert.

Music In Words : Rhythm : Young and old / Charles Kingsley

A Vagabond song / Bliss Carman

Song for a fifth child / Ruth H. Hamilton

Rime and alliteration : Money / Richard Armour

Lone dog / Irene Rutherford McLeod

Like rain it sounded till it curved / Emily Dickinson

Music without meter and rime : Free verse : By the bivouac's fitful flame / Walt Whitman

The Beat child / Chuck Stoddard

Anglo-Saxon verse form : London train / Paul Dehn.

Syllabic verse : Triad / Adelaide Crapsey

Hokku / Chiyo (translation by Curtis Hidden Page)

Stanza forms : Golden bough / Elinor Wylie

In a garden / Donald C. Babcock

O God our help in ages past / Isaac Watts

Three woulds / anonymous

Blank verse : The Snow-storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Sonnet : Sonnet 29 / William Shakespeare

All that matters / Edgar A. Guest

To a photographer / Berton Braley.

Continued 1 : Sharpened Sense Antennae : Sense impressions in words : Barter / Sara Teasdale

Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman

Smells / Christopher Morley

A Salad / Sydney Smith

The Shell / James Stephens

In the garden of the Lord / Helen Keller

Sense impressions plus : Sunrise / Lizette Woodworth Reese

Dawn / William Carlos Williams

Radar / A.M. Sullivan

Cat's eye / Paul Engle

I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth

Figures of speech (comparisons) : Simile : The Fly / Walter de la Mare

Metaphor : Dreams / Lagston Hughes

Personification : Fragment from nothing / Elizabeth Coatsworth

Symbol : The Long hill / Sara Teasdale

Three poems : a summing up : Clean curtains / Carl Sandburg

Crystal moment / Robert P. Tristram Coffin

The Fish / Elizabeth Bishop.

The Vision Of The Ideal : To James / Frank Horne

Mother to son / Langston Hughes

A Farewell / Charles Kingsley

Outwitted / Edwin Markham

It is not growing like a tree / Ben Jonson

If ... / Rudyard Kipling

God, give us men! / Josiah Gilbert Holland

The Chambered Nautilus / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Leisure / William H. Davies

Preliminary poem for a modern city / Harry Kemp

For a' that and a' that / Robert Burns

The Man he killed / Thomas Hardy

Prayer / Louis Untermeyer

A Sergeant's prayer / Hugh Brodie

The Pillar of the cloud / John Henry Newman

Prayer of Columbus / Walt Whitman.

More Lyric Verse To Read For Enjoyment : America the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates

The Flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett

In Flanders fields / Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae

I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger

The Soldier / Rupert Brooke

Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ode / Henry Timrod

Four things / Henry van Dyke

Be strong / Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Invictus / William Ernest Henley

Thanksgiving eve / Grantland Rice

God of our fathers / Daniel Crane Roberts

Psalm 100

Psalm 121

The Investment / Robert Frost

Home, sweet home / John Howard Payne

The Old oaken bucket / Samuel Woodworth

Woodman, spare that tree / George P. Morris.

The House by the side of the road / Sam Walter Foss

The Arrow and the song ; The Village Blacksmith / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of the thrush / T.A. Daly

The House on the hill / Edwin Arlington Robinson

Memory / Abraham Lincoln

Sweet and low / Alfred Tennyson

Sweetes' li'l feller / Frank L. Stanton

Bed in summer ; Windy nights ; System ; The Swing ; Looking-glass river / Robert Louis Stevenson

The Modern Hiawatha / George A. Strong

Seein' things / Eugene Field

The Twelve days of Christmas / Anonymous

The Months / Christina Rossetti

Travel / Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Continued 2 : Old Closet / Selma Robinson

The Day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Limerick / Anonymous

To Celia / Ben Jonson

Jeanie with the light brown hair / Stephen Foster

If I were a king / Justin Huntly McCarthy

The Night has a thousand eyes / Francis William Bourdillon

Disdain returned / Thomas Carew

Ko-Ko's song / W.S. Gilbert

Love is like a dizziness / James Hogg

Sky-writer / Vincent Starrett

Gentle name / Selma Robinson

To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace

Sweet spring is your ; Number 77 from 95 poems / E.E. Cummings

Epigram / Alexander pope

A Few signs / Grantland Rice

The Sea / Bryan Waller Procter

Break, break, break / Alfred Tennyson.

O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman

The Trees are down / Charlotte Mew

Jazz Fantasia / Carl Sandburg

Crossing / Philip Booth

Tele-news blues / Peter Dufault

Sneezing / Leigh Hunt

Iron-wind dances / Lew Sarrett

What the hyena said / Vachel Lindsay

Beat! beat! drums! / Walt Whitman

God's world / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Autumn tints / Sara Teasdale

A Ballade-catalogue of lovely things / Richard Le Gallienne

Aladdin throws away his lamp / Elias Lieberman

It isn't the cough / Anonymous

Otherwise / Aileen Fisher

The Lightning is a yellow fork / Emily Dickinson

A Pitcher of mignonette / H.C. Bunner

A Limerick / Anonymous

The Rain / William H. Davies.

Manhatten skyline / Eugene M. Kayden

The Donkey / G.K. Chesterton

The Example / William H. Davies

On a fly drinking out of his cup / William Oldys

The Spider / Robert P. Tristam Coffin

At the aquarium / Max Eastman

A Narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson

The Difference / Anonymous

Ferry ride / Selma Robinson

The Old swimmer / Christopher Morley

The Little man who wasn't there / Hughes Mearns

Six nuns in the snow / Phyllis McGinley

Thunderstorms / William H. Davies

The Bare arms of trees / John Tagliabue

Junk / Richard Wilbur

Martin / Joyce Kilmer

The Perfect reactionary / Hughes Mearns

Uncle Bing / Vincent Starrett

The Wrestler / Stefan George.

The Travel bureau / Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Eight-cylinder man / Florence Ripley Mastin

Song / Oliver Herford

The Book-worms / Robert Burns

Song / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A Dutch proverb / Matthew Prior

Epitaphs for three prominent persons / Phyllis McGinley

Epitaph on a dentist ; On Leslie Moore / Anonymous

Prudence / Don Marquis

I Sometimes think / R.P. Lister

Inscription for the ceiling of a bedroom / Dorothy Parker

Business / Arthur Guiterman

Don't shake the bottle, shake your mother-in-law / Phyllis McGinley

What Mr. Robbins thinks / James Russell Lowell

Men / Dorothy Parker

Song of the Chattahoochee / Sidney Lanier.

Continued 3 : Rubbaiybat of Omar Khayyiam (selections) / Edward FitzGerald

Daniel at breakfast / Phyllis McGinley

Investor's soliloquy / Kenneth Ward

Sestina of youth and age / Gelett Burgess

Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley

On the grasshopper and cricket ; When I have fears / John Keats

Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare

Dover beach / Matthew Arnold

To a waterfowl / William Cullen Bryant

Ichabod / John Greenleaf Whittier

Birches / Robert Frost

Deor's lament / Deor

Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant

The Ghosts of the buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay

The Barrel-organ / Alfred Noyes

Ode to duty / William Wordsworth.