MY favourite authors:
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Sarojini Naidu
MY favourite poems:
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
In The Noontide Quiet
So fickle are the little winds
One may not say they blow;
The balanced leaves, they tremble, wait,
Not sure which way to go.
So fare my fancies.
Fluttering soft,
As out of sleep they start;
The while they think to drift away
They die upon my heart.
1900
John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
John Keats
Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient sleepless eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors;
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Sarojini Naidu
MY favourite poems:
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
In The Noontide Quiet
So fickle are the little winds
One may not say they blow;
The balanced leaves, they tremble, wait,
Not sure which way to go.
So fare my fancies.
Fluttering soft,
As out of sleep they start;
The while they think to drift away
They die upon my heart.
1900
John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
John Keats
Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient sleepless eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors;
No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
- Last seen 2 days ago. Member since September 29, 2005.
- I'm a lapisLazuli dream poet for 328 comments.
- I am a woman (Malaysia)
- When I'm not writing, I'm simple housewife who cooks, cleans and does some line dancing to keep fit..
- I help out as a oldpoetry researcher
































- I am in the groups A How to Give Constructive Criticism Group, Haiku and Tanka, Oldpoetry and Friends, Rhyme and Meter Workshop, The Winkling Sonneteers Villanelle and Terzanelle Writers Modern Odes, Winklings Group One The Original Winklings
- I have 328 comments, 2 contests
Poems I'm focused on
My Poetry
-
The quiet sunset lures away
-
There was once a benign kangaroo
Accidentally came to a zoo.9 lines, 2 comments, September 22, 2007. In Humor -
Four roses flutter by a tranquil stream,
Visitor Book
1 - 4 of 7
Show all
-
MoonsShadow on August 26, 2007thank you for stopping in and checking our contest and entering,SH
-
Josy2 on August 11, 2006Hi Shelley, I have enjoyed browsing through it v much.
-
ShelleyA on July 18, 2006Hi joss. Thanks so much for stopping by my web page.
Take care.
Shelley -
Josy2 on February 1, 2006Thanks I'll be there soon.
