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The term "sand castle" has been searched for 70 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on November 18th, 2004.
1. 134. Fragment of Song—The Night was Still - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 190914..
Published in 1786.
Read 612 times on Poetry Connection.
THE NIGHT was still, and o’er the hill
The moon shone on the castle wa’;
The mavis sang, while dew-drops hang
Around her on the castle wa’;
Sae merrily they danced the ring
Frae eenin’ till the cock did craw;
And aye the... (Read full poem)
2. 189. Verses on Castle Gordon - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 190914..
Published in 1787.
Read 611 times on Poetry Connection.
STREAMS that glide in orient plains,
Never bound by Winter’s chains;
Glowing here on golden sands,
There immix’d with foulest stains
From Tyranny’s empurpled hands;
These, their richly gleaming waves,
I leave to tyrants and their... (Read full poem)
3. Sand Dabs, Five - written by Mary Oliver
From Winter Hours.
Published in 1999.
Read 3102 times on Poetry Connection.
What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.
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Does the grain of sand know it is a grain of sand?
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My dog Ben -- a mouth like a tabernacle.
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You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence,
serendipity. I'll take... (Read full poem)
4. Boot And Saddle - written by Robert Browning
Read 2868 times on Poetry Connection.
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Rescue my Castle, before the hot day
Brightens the blue from its silvery grey,
(Chorus) "Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you'd say;
Many's the friend there, will listen and... (Read full poem)
5. Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle - written by Robert Browning
Read 661 times on Poetry Connection.
Boot, saddle, to horse and away!
Rescue my Castle, before the hot day
Brightens to blue from its silvery gray,
(Chorus)
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Ride past the suburbs, asleep as you'd say;
Many's the friend there, will listen and... (Read full poem)
6. 200. Song—The Young Highland Rover - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 190914..
Published in 1787.
Read 628 times on Poetry Connection.
LOUD blaw the frosty breezes,
The snaws the mountains cover;
Like winter on me seizes,
Since my young Highland rover
Far wanders nations over.
Where’er he go, where’er he stray,
May heaven be his warden;
Return him safe to fair... (Read full poem)
7. A Grain Of Sand - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger.
Read 911 times on Poetry Connection.
If starry space no limit knows
And sun succeeds to sun,
There is no reason to suppose
Our earth the only one.
'Mid countless constellations cast
A million worlds may be,
With each a God to bless or blast
And steer to... (Read full poem)
9. Princess: A Medley: The splendour falls on castle walls - written by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Read 1385 times on Poetry Connection.
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying,... (Read full poem)
10. At Castle Boterel - written by Thomas Hardy
Read 1304 times on Poetry Connection.
As I drive to the junction of lane and highway,
And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette,
I look behind at the fading byway,
And see on its slope, now glistening wet,
Distinctly yet
Myself and a girlish form benighted
In dry March... (Read full poem)
11. 455. Epitaph on a noted coxcomb - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 190914..
Published in 1794.
Read 670 times on Poetry Connection.
LIGHT lay the earth on Billy’s breast,
His chicken heart so tender;
But build a castle on his head,
His scull will prop it under.(Read full poem)
12. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau - written by William Blake
Read 2317 times on Poetry Connection.
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;
Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.
And every sand becomes a gem
Reflected in the beams divine;
Blown back they blind the mocking... (Read full poem)
13. Concert Party - written by Siegfried Sassoon
Published in 1918.
Read 586 times on Poetry Connection.
(EGYPTIAN BASE CAMP)
They are gathering round....
Out of the twilight; over the grey-blue sand,
Shoals of low-jargoning men drift inward to the sound
The jangle and throb of a piano ... tum-ti-tum...
Drawn by a lamp, they come
Out of... (Read full poem)
14. So I Said I Am Ezra - written by A.R. Ammons
From Collected Poems: 1951-1971.
Published in 1972.
Read 2888 times on Poetry Connection.
So I said I am Ezra
and the wind whipped my throat
gaming for the sounds of my voice
I listened to the wind
go over my head and up into the night
Turning to the sea I said
I am Ezra
but there were no echoes from the waves
The words... (Read full poem)
15. Thinking Of A Friend At Night - written by Hermann Hesse
Read 1011 times on Poetry Connection.
In this evil year, autumn comes early...
I walk by night in the field, alone, the rain clatters,
The wind on my hat...And you? And you, my friend?
You are standing--maybe--and seeing the sickle moon
Move in a small arc over the forests
And bivouac... (Read full poem)
16. The South Country - written by Hilaire Belloc
Published in 1920.
Read 816 times on Poetry Connection.
When I am living in the Midlands
That are sodden and unkind,
I light my lamp in the evening:
My work is left behind;
And the great hills of the South Country
Come back into my mind.
The great hills of the South Country
They stand along the... (Read full poem)
17. To George Sand: A Desire - written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Read 1116 times on Poetry Connection.
THOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man,
Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions
Of thy tumultuous senses, moans defiance
And answers roar for roar, as spirits can:
I would some mild miraculous thunder ran
Above the... (Read full poem)
18. Yellow - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 1478 times on Poetry Connection.
One pearly day of early May
I strolled upon the sand,
And saw, say half-a-mile away
A man with gun in hand;
A dog was cowering to his will,
As slow he sought to creep
Upon a dozen ducks so still
They seemed to be asleep,
When like a streak the dog... (Read full poem)
19. EFFECTS AT A DISTANCE. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 450 times on Poetry Connection.
THE queen in the lofty hall takes her place,
The tapers around her are flaming;
She speaks to the page: "With a nimble pace
Go, fetch me my purse for gaming.
'Tis lying, I'll pledge,
On my table's edge."
Each nerve the nimble boy... (Read full poem)
20. On Home Beaches - written by Les Murray
Read 909 times on Poetry Connection.
Back, in my fifties, fatter that I was then,
I step on the sand, belch down slight horror to walk
a wincing pit edge, waiting for the pistol shot
laughter. Long greening waves cash themselves, foam change
sliding into Ocean's pocket. She turns:... (Read full poem)
21. 211. Song—My Hoggie - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 190914..
Published in 1788.
Read 780 times on Poetry Connection.
WHAT will I do gin my Hoggie die?
My joy, my pride, my Hoggie!
My only beast, I had nae mae,
And vow but I was vogie!
The lee-lang night we watch’d the fauld,
Me and my faithfu’ doggie;
We heard nocht but the roaring linn,
Amang... (Read full poem)
22. VII. At a Village in Scotland.... - written by William Lisle Bowles
Read 439 times on Poetry Connection.
O NORTH! as thy romantic vales I leave,
And bid farewell to each retiring hill,
Where thoughtful fancy seems to linger still,
Tracing the broad bright landscape; much I grieve
That mingled with the toiling croud, no more
I shall return,... (Read full poem)
23. THE MOUNTAIN CASTLE. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 728 times on Poetry Connection.
THERE stands on yonder high mountain
A castle built of yore,
Where once lurked horse and horseman
In rear of gate and of door.
Now door and gate are in ashes,
And all around is so still;
And over the fallen ruins
I clamber just as I... (Read full poem)
24. Fall Song - written by Mary Oliver
From House of Light.
Read 4510 times on Poetry Connection.
Another year gone, leaving everywhere
its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves,
the uneaten fruits crumbling damply
in the shadows, unmattering back
from the particular island
of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere
except underfoot,... (Read full poem)
25. Magellanic Penguin - written by Pablo Neruda
Read 6290 times on Poetry Connection.
Neither clown nor child nor black
nor white but verticle
and a questioning innocence
dressed in night and snow:
The mother smiles at the sailor,
the fisherman at the astronaunt,
but the child child does not smile
when he looks at the bird child,
and... (Read full poem)
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