11) 116. Sunday Evening in the Common. John Hall Wheelock. Modern American
Poetry
...blossoms of the myriad stars are thick; Over the huddled rows of stone and brick, A few, sad wisps of empty smoke are curled Like ghosts, languid and sick. 5 One...
12) 142. To Victory. Siegfried Sassoon. Modern British Poetry
...copse and lovely wood, Where the hueless wind passes and cries unseen. I am not sad; only I long for lustre,— Tired of the greys and browns and leafless ash. 10 I...
13) 169. Blind Pedlar. Osbert Sitwell. Modern British Poetry
...now I thank God, and am glad For what I cannot see this day —The young men cripples, old, and sad, 15 With faces burnt and torn away; Or those who, growing rich and...
14) 60. To the Moon. Sir Philip Sidney. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer
to Gray. The Harvard Classics
...WITH how sad steps, O moon, thou climb st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What! may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp...
15) 26. Daisy. Francis Thompson. Modern British Poetry
...he partings gone, And partings yet to be. She left me marvelling why my soul Was sad that she was glad; 50 At all the sadness in the sweet, The sweetness in the sad....
16) Preface. James Weldon Johnson, ed. 1922. The Book of American Negro Poetry
...Through hardship, toil, and pain? Come, Liberty! thou cheerful sound, Roll through my ravished ears; Come, let my grief in joys be drowned, And drive away my fears....
17) 105. Dirge of Love. William Shakespeare. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From
Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics
... COME away, come away, Death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,...
18) Biographical Sketches. Untermeyer, Louis, ed. 1920. Modern British Poetry
...Loving, like Frost, the minutiæ of existence, the quaint and casual turn of ordinary life, he caught the magic of the English countryside in its unpoeticized quietude....
19) 84. Clair de Lune. Ford Madox Hueffer. Modern British Poetry
...And the things that you told me. Little things in the clear of the moon, The little, sad things of a life. We shall do it again 40 Full surely, Sitting still, looking...
20) 67. The Toy Band by Henry Newbolt. A Song of the Great Retreat. Clarke,
George Herbert, ed. 1917. A Treasury of War Poetry
...Lights out and never a glint o moon: Weary lay the stragglers, half a thousand down, Sad sighed the weary big Dragoon. Oh! if I d a drum here to make them take the...
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