Beautiful poetry and verse to inspire your soul
The Banks o’ Doon
Ye flowery banks o’ bonnie Doon, How can ye blume sae fair! How can ye chant, ye little birds, A...
Robert Burns
Mary Morison
O Mary, at thy window be, It is the wish’d, the trysted hour! Those smiles and glances let me see,...
Love’s Secret
Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently...
William Blake
The Little Black Boy
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white! White as an angel...
Ode to Evening
If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy...
William Collins
Love will find out the Way
Over the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves; Under floods th...
Anonymous
The Dying Christian to his Soul
Vital spark of heav’nly flame! Quit, O quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, lingering, fly...
Alexander Pope
Barbara Allen’s Cruelty
In Scarlet town, where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin’, Made every youth cry Well-a-way...
The Twa Corbies
(SCOTTISH VERSION) As I was walking all alane I heard twa corbies making a mane: The tane unto the ...
The Three Ravens
There were three ravens sat on a tree, They were as black as they might be. The one of them said to...
Sir Patrick Spens
I. The Sailing The king sits in Dunfermline town Drinking the blude-red wine; ‘O whare will I get...
Peace
My soul, there is a country Far beyond the stars, Where stands a wingèd sentry All skilful in th...
Henry Vaughan
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