Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems (Delphi Poets Series Book 50) (267 page)
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Authors: Homer,William Shakespeare
George MacDonald (1824–1905)
WHERE did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
Where did you get those eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
5
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I went by.
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What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than any one knows.
Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get this pearly ear?
15
God spoke, and it came out to hear.
Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into bonds and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs’ wings.
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How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.
But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought about you, and so I am here.
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
445
They shut me up in Prose –
As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet –
Because they liked me “still” –
Still! Could themself have peeped –
And seen my Brain – go round –
They might as wise have lodged a Bird
For Treason – in the Pound –
Himself has but to will
And easy as a Star
Look down opon Captivity –
And laugh – No more have I –
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Hope is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
254
“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.
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
185
“Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see —
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.
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List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dew
From a convenient grass,
And then hopped sidewise to the wall
To let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all abroad,-
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;
He stirred his velvet head
Like one in danger; cautious,
I offered him a crumb,
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,
Too silver for a seam,
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,
Leap, plashless, as they swim.
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A Dying Tiger — moaned for Drink
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
566
A Dying Tiger — moaned for Drink —
I hunted all the Sand —
I caught the Dripping of a Rock
And bore it in my Hand —
His Mighty Balls — in death were thick —
But searching — I could see
A Vision on the Retina
Of Water — and of me —
’Twas not my blame — who sped too slow —
’Twas not his blame — who died
While I was reaching him —
But ’twas — the fact that He was dead —
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
895
A Cloud withdrew from the Sky
Superior Glory be
But that Cloud and its Auxiliaries
Are forever lost to me
Had I but further scanned
Had I secured the Glow
In an Hermetic Memory
It had availed me now.
Never to pass the Angel
With a glance and a Bow
Till I am firm in Heaven
Is my intention now.
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Speech — is a prank of Parliament
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
688
‘Speech’ — is a prank of Parliament —
‘Tears’ — is a trick of the nerve —
But the Heart with the heaviest freight on —
Doesn’t — always — move —
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List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
480
“Why do I love” You, Sir?
Because —
The Wind does not require the Grass
To answer — Wherefore when He pass
She cannot keep Her place.
Because He knows — and
Do not You —
And We know not —
Enough for Us
The Wisdom it be so —
The Lightning — never asked an Eye
Wherefore it shut — when He was by —
Because He knows it cannot speak —
And reasons not contained —
— Of Talk —
There be — preferred by Daintier Folk —
The Sunrise — Sire — compelleth Me —
Because He’s Sunrise — and I see —
Therefore — Then —
I love Thee —
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List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Heaven — is what I cannot reach!
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
239
“Heaven” — is what I cannot reach!
The Apple on the Tree —
Provided it do hopeless — hang —
That— “He aven” is — to Me!
The Color, on the Cruising Cloud —
The interdicted Land —
Behind the Hill — the House behind —
There — Paradise — is found!
Her teasing Purples — Afternoons —
The credulous — decoy —
Enamored — of the Conjuror —
That spurned us — Yesterday!
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List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
668
“Nature” is what we see —
The Hill — the Afternoon —
Squirrel — Eclipse — the Bumble bee —
Nay — Nature is Heaven —
Nature is what we hear —
The Bobolink — the Sea —
Thunder — the Cricket —
Nay — Nature is Harmony —
Nature is what we know —
Yet have no art to say —
So impotent Our Wisdom is
To her Simplicity.
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order