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The term "lake isle" has been searched for 69 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on November 30th, 2004.
1. To An Isle In The Water - written by William Butler Yeats
From Crossways.
Published in 1889.
Read 2604 times on Poetry Connection.
Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in the firelight
pensively apart.
She carries in the dishes,
And lays them in a row.
To an isle in the water
With her would I go.
With catries in the candles,
And lights the curtained room,
Shy in... (Read full poem)
2. The Lake Isle Of Innisfree - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Rose.
Published in 1893.
Read 6814 times on Poetry Connection.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace... (Read full poem)
3. Lake - written by Czeslaw Milosz
Read 1349 times on Poetry Connection.
Maidenly lake, fathomless lake,
Stay as you were once, overgrown with rushes,
Idling with a reflected cloud, for my sake
Whom your shore no longer touches.
Your girl was always real to me.
Her bones lie in a city by the sea.
Everything occurs too... (Read full poem)
4. At the Lake Pavilion - written by Wang Wei
Read 477 times on Poetry Connection.
Small barge go to meet honoured guest
Leisurely lake on come
At railing face cup alcohol
On all sides lotus bloom
On a skiff I meet an honoured guest,
Slowly, slowly, it comes across the lake.
Facing at the railing, we drink a cup of... (Read full poem)
5. The Mountain And The Lake - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone.
Read 556 times on Poetry Connection.
I know a mountain thrilling to the stars,
Peerless and pure, and pinnacled with snow;
Glimpsing the golden dawn o'er coral bars,
Flaunting the vanisht sunset's garnet glow;
Proudly patrician, passionless, serene;
Soaring in silvered steeps where... (Read full poem)
6. Beachcomber - written by Robert William Service
From Bar-Room Ballads.
Read 489 times on Poetry Connection.
When I have come with happy heart to sixty years and ten,
I'll buy a boat and sail away upon a summer sea;
And in a little lonely isle that's far and far from men,
In peace and praise I'll spend the days the Gods allow to me.
For I am weary of a... (Read full poem)
7. Escape - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 1008 times on Poetry Connection.
Tell me, Tramp, where I may go
To be free from human woe;
Say where I may hope to find
Ease of heart and peace of mind;
Is thee not some isle you know
Where I may leave Care behind?
So spoke one is sore distress,
And I answered softly:... (Read full poem)
8. This Is A Photograph Of Me - written by Margaret Atwood
Published in 1966.
Read 14962 times on Poetry Connection.
It was taken some time ago.
At first it seems to be
a smeared
print: blurred lines and grey flecks
blended with the paper;
then, as you scan
it, you see in the left-hand corner
a thing that is like a branch: part of a tree
(balsam or... (Read full poem)
9. Atoll - written by Robert William Service
From Bar-Room Ballads.
Read 533 times on Poetry Connection.
The woes of men beyond my ken
Mean nothing more to me.
Behold my world, and Eden hurled
From Heaven to the Sea;
A jeweled home, in fending foam
Tempestuously tossed;
A virgin isle none dare defile,
Far-flung, forgotten, lost.
And here I dwell,... (Read full poem)
10. Sonnet to Lake Leman - written by Lord Byron
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Rousseau -- Voltaire -- our Gibbon -- De Staël --
Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore,
Thy shore of names like these! wert thou no more,
Their memory thy remembrance would recall:
To them thy banks were lovely as to all,
But they... (Read full poem)
11. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year - written by Lord Byron
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Missolonghi, Jan. 22, 1824
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the... (Read full poem)
12. ON THE LAKE, - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 674 times on Poetry Connection.
[Written on the occasion of Goethe's starting
with his friend Passavant on a Swiss Tour.]
I DRINK fresh nourishment, new blood
From out this world more free;
The Nature is so kind and good
That to her breast clasps me!
The billows toss our... (Read full poem)
13. His Dream Of The Skyland - written by Li Po
Read 593 times on Poetry Connection.
The seafarers tell of the Eastern Isle of Bliss,
It is lost in a wilderness of misty sea waves.
But the Sky-land of the south, the Yueh-landers say,
May be seen through cracks of the glimmering cloud.
This land of the sky stretches across the... (Read full poem)
14. Ephemera - written by William Butler Yeats
From Crossways.
Published in 1889.
Read 2537 times on Poetry Connection.
'Your eyes that once were never weary of mine
Are bowed in sotrow under pendulous lids,
Because our love is waning.'
And then She:
'Although our love is waning, let us stand
By the lone border of the lake once... (Read full poem)
15. The Goldsmith - written by Siegfried Sassoon
From Picture Show.
Published in 1920.
Read 500 times on Poetry Connection.
'This job's the best I've done.' He bent his head
Over the golden vessel that he'd wrought.
A bird was singing. But the craftsman's thought
Is a forgotten language, lost and dead.
He sighed and stretch'd brown arms. His friend came in
And stood... (Read full poem)
16. CHERRY RIPE - written by Robert Herrick
Read 598 times on Poetry Connection.
Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
Full and fair ones; come, and buy:
If so be you ask me where
They do grow? I answer, there
Where my Julia's lips do smile;--
There's the land, or cherry-isle;
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where... (Read full poem)
17. The Isle Of Portland - written by A.E. Housman
Read 800 times on Poetry Connection.
The star-filled seas are smooth tonight
From France to England strown;
Black towers above Portland light
The felon-quarried stone.
On yonder island; not to rise,
Never to stir forth free,
Far from his folk a dead lad lies
That... (Read full poem)
18. From The Last Island: To Lady Elisabeth Verreet - written by Regina Derieva
From Cross Currents, Spring 2002 Vol.52 No.1 .
Read 783 times on Poetry Connection.
Oval mirror of the sea,
age-warped isle waved and cloudy,
each angle crystalline and salty.
my lens into reality.
Point of space just visible,
focus of beams ineffable,
swith of signals transmissible,
receiver of voices inaudible
At time's edge.... (Read full poem)
19. Words - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 637 times on Poetry Connection.
If on isle of the sea
I have to tarry,
With one book, let it be
A Dictionary.
For though I love life's scene,
It seems absurd,
My greatest joy has been
The printed word.
Though painter with delight... (Read full poem)
20. To Wang Lun - written by Li Po
Read 546 times on Poetry Connection.
I was about to sail away in a junk,
When suddenly I heard
The sound of stamping and singing on the bank—
It was you and your friends come to bid me farewell.
The Peach Flower Lake is a thousand fathoms deep,
But it cannot compare, O Wang... (Read full poem)
21. The Akond of Swat - written by Edward Lear
Read 720 times on Poetry Connection.
Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of SWAT?
Is he tall or short, or dark or fair?
Does he sit on a stool or a sofa or a chair,
or SQUAT,
The Akond of Swat?
Is he wise or foolish, young or old?
Does he drink his soup... (Read full poem)
22. THE WHITE ISLAND:OR PLACE OF THE BLEST - written by Robert Herrick
Read 683 times on Poetry Connection.
In this world, the Isle of Dreams,
While we sit by sorrow's streams,
Tears and terrors are our themes,
Reciting:
But when once from hence we fly,
More and more approaching nigh
Unto young eternity,
Uniting
In that whiter Island,... (Read full poem)
23. Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang - written by Wang Wei
Read 475 times on Poetry Connection.
As the years go by, give me but peace,
Freedom from ten thousand matters.
I ask myself and always answer:
What can be better than coming home?
A wind from the pine-trees blows my sash,
And my lute is bright with the mountain moon.
You... (Read full poem)
24. XII. Written at a Convent. - written by William Lisle Bowles
Read 389 times on Poetry Connection.
IF chance some pensive stranger, hither led,
His bosom glowing from majestic views,
The gorgeous dome, or the proud landscape's hues,
Should ask who sleeps beneath this lowly bed --
'Tis poor Matilda! To the cloister'd scene,
A mourner,... (Read full poem)
25. TO MILTON - written by Oscar Wilde
From Charmides and Other Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1122 times on Poetry Connection.
TO MILTON
Milton! I think thy spirit hath passed away
From these white cliffs and high-embattled towers;
This gorgeous fiery-coloured world of ours
Seems fallen into ashes dull and grey,
And the age changed unto a mimic play
Wherein we... (Read full poem)
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