I Want to Die While You Love Me By Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1880 – 1966 I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips And lights are in my hair. I want to die while you love me, And bear to that … More Happy Valentine’s Day: I Want to Die While You Love Me
Poem – Merry Christmas: The Oxen by Thomas Hardy #Poetry … More Merry Christmas: The Oxen by Thomas Hardy #Poetry
Happy Thanksgiving, A #Poem: The Thanksgiving by Edgar Guest … More Happy Thanksgiving Poem: The Thanksgiving by Edgar Guest
A #Halloween Poem: The Apparition by John Donne … More Happy Halloween: The Apparition
#Poetry Break: August by Helen Hunt Jackson … More Poetry Break!
Father’s Day Poem: Only a Dad by Edgar Guest … More Father’s Day Poem: Only a Dad
Mother’s Day Poem: Mother o’ Mine by Rudyard Kipling … More Mother’s Day Poem: Mother o’ Mine
The Kiss By Sara Teasdale, 1884 – 1933 Before you kissed me only winds of heaven Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain— Now you have come, how can I care for kisses Like theirs again? I sought the sea, she sent her winds to meet me, They surged about me singing … More Happy Valentine’s Day: The Kiss
Christmas at Sea By Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 – 1894 The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; The decks were like a slide, where a seamen scarce could stand; The wind was a nor’wester, blowing squally off the sea; And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee. … More Merry Christmas: Christmas at Sea
The Thanksgivings By Harriet Maxwell Converse Translated from a traditional Iroquois prayer We who are here present thank the Great Spirit that we are here to praise Him. We thank Him that He has created men and women, and ordered that these beings shall always be living to multiply the earth. We thank Him … More Happy Thanksgiving: The Thanksgivings
