Beautiful poetry and verse to inspire your soul
Barbara Allen’s Cruelty
In Scarlet town, where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin’, Made every youth cry Well-a-way...
Anonymous
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
An Horatian Ode
upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland The forward youth that would appear Must now forsake his Muses ...
Andrew Marvell
To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas
If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone You or I were ...
Richard Lovelace
Why so Pale and Wan?
Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can’t move he...
Sir John Suckling
Lycidas
A Lament for a friend drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637 Yet once more, O ...
John Milton
At a Solemn Musick
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’ns joy, Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers, Wed y...
Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav’n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; N...
Go, lovely Rose
Go, lovely Rose-- Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her ...
Edmund Waller
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