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The term "scarecrow walter de la mere" has been searched for 26 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on September 11th, 2005.
1. A Landscape By Courbet - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Read 399 times on Poetry Connection.
Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still
And glad of silence: down the wood sweeps clear
To the utmost verge where fed with many a rill
Low lies the mere.
The wind speaks only summer: eye nor ear
Sees aught at all of dark, hears aught of... (Read full poem)
2. APPARENT DEATH. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 507 times on Poetry Connection.
WEEP, maiden, weep here o'er the tomb of Love;
He died of nothing--by mere chance was slain.
But is he really dead?--oh, that I cannot prove:
A nothing, a mere chance, oft gives him life again.
1767-9.(Read full poem)
3. 453. Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1794.
Read 560 times on Poetry Connection.
SIC a reptile was Wat, sic a miscreant slave,
That the worms ev’n d—d him when laid in his grave;
“In his flesh there’s a famine,” a starved reptile cries,
“And his heart is rank poison!” another replies.(Read full poem)
4. Lord Walter's Wife - written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Read 909 times on Poetry Connection.
I
'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew,
And her eyes were alive in their depth, as the kraken beneath the sea-blue.
II
'Because I fear you,' he answered;--'because you are far too fair,
And able to... (Read full poem)
5. The Lost Mistress - written by Robert Browning
Read 2873 times on Poetry Connection.
All's over, then: does truth sound bitter
As one at first believes?
Hark, 'tis the sparrows' good-night twitter
About your cottage eaves!
And the leaf-buds on the vine are woolly,
I noticed that today;
One day more bursts them open fully
—You... (Read full poem)
7. Apostasy - written by Charlotte Bronte
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THIS last denial of my faith,
Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard;
And, though upon my bed of death,
I call not back a word.
Point not to thy Madonna, Priest,
Thy sightless saint of stone;
She cannot, from this burning breast,
Wring one... (Read full poem)
8. 119. Reflections - written by George William Russell
From Collected Poems by A.E..
Published in 1913.
Read 960 times on Poetry Connection.
HOW shallow is this mere that gleams!
Its depth of blue is from the skies,
And from a distant sun the dreams
And lovely light within your eyes.
We deem our love so infinite
Because the Lord is everywhere,
And love awakening is made bright
And... (Read full poem)
9. Michael Robartes And The Dancer - written by William Butler Yeats
From Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
Published in 1921.
Read 1340 times on Poetry Connection.
He. Opinion is not worth a rush;
In this altar-piece the knight,
Who grips his long spear so to push
That dragon through the fading light,
Loved the lady; and it's plain
The half-dead dragon was her thought,
That every morning rose again
And dug its... (Read full poem)
10. The Road to Roundabout - written by G.K. Chesterton
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Some say that Guy of Warwick
The man that killed the Cow,
And brake the mighty Boar alive
Beyond the bridge at Slough;
Went up against a Loathly Worm
That wasted all the Downs,
And so the roads they twist and squirm
(If a may be... (Read full poem)
11. A Confession To A Friend In Trouble - written by Thomas Hardy
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Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less
Here, far away, than when I tarried near;
I even smile old smiles--with listlessness--
Yet smiles they are, not ghastly mockeries mere.
A thought too strange to house within my brain
Haunting... (Read full poem)
12. It Is Later Than You Think - written by Robert William Service
From Ballads of a Bohemian (Book 1).
Read 1337 times on Poetry Connection.
Lone amid the cafe's cheer,
Sad of heart am I to-night;
Dolefully I drink my beer,
But no single line I write.
There's the wretched rent to pay,
Yet I glower at pen and ink:
Oh, inspire me, Muse, I pray,
It is later than you think!
Hello! there's a... (Read full poem)
13. Design - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger.
Read 605 times on Poetry Connection.
Said Seeker of the skies to me:
"Behold yon starry host ashine!
When Heaven's harmony you see
How can you doubt control divine,
Law, order and design?"
"Nay, Sire," said I, "I do not doubt
The spheres in cosmic... (Read full poem)
14. The Fool By The Roadside - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Tower.
Published in 1928.
Read 1509 times on Poetry Connection.
(version of The Hero, The Girl And The Fool)
When all works that have
From cradle run to grave
From grave to cradle run instead;
When thoughts that a fool
Has wound upon a spool
Are but loose thread, are but loose thread;
When cradle and spool are... (Read full poem)
15. Let History Be My Judge - written by W. H. Auden
Published in 1928.
Read 4552 times on Poetry Connection.
We made all possible preparations,
Drew up a list of firms,
Constantly revised our calculations
And allotted the farms,
Issued all the orders expedient
In this kind of case:
Most, as was expectd, were obedient,
Though there were murmurs, of... (Read full poem)
16. In Memory of Walter Savage Landor - written by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Read 398 times on Poetry Connection.
Back to the flower-town, side by side,
The bright months bring,
New-born, the bridegroom and the bride,
Freedom and spring.
The sweet land laughs from sea to sea,
Filled full of sun;
All things come back to her, being free;
All things but... (Read full poem)
17. Down, Wanton, Down! - written by Robert Graves
Read 1756 times on Poetry Connection.
Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame
That at the whisper of Love's name,
Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise
Your angry head and stand at gaze?
Poor bombard-captain, sworn to reach
The ravelin and effect a breach--
Indifferent what... (Read full poem)
18. The Survivor - written by Theodore Roethke
Read 7571 times on Poetry Connection.
I am twenty-four
led to slaughter
I survived.
The following are empty synonyms:
man and beast
love and hate
friend and foe
darkness and light.
The way of killing men and beasts is the same
I've seen it:
truckfuls of chopped-up men
who will not be... (Read full poem)
20. The Persian Version - written by Robert Graves
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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
As for the Greek theatrical tradition
Which represents that summer's expedition
Not as a mere reconnaisance in force
By three brigades of foot and one of... (Read full poem)
21. The Damp - written by John Donne
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When I am dead, and doctors know not why,
And my friends' curiosity
Will have me cut up to survey each part,—
When they shall find your picture in my heart,
You think a sudden damp of love
Will through all their senses move,
And work on them... (Read full poem)
22. Poem: Taedium Vitae - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1758 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Taedium Vitae
To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear
This paltry age's gaudy livery,
To let each base hand filch my treasury,
To mesh my soul within a woman's hair,
And be mere Fortune's lackeyed groom, - I swear
I love it... (Read full poem)
23. In Modern Dress - written by Craig Raine
Published in 1984.
Read 415 times on Poetry Connection.
A pair of blackbirds
warring in the roses,
one or two poppies
losing their heads,
the trampled lawn
a battlefield of dolls.
Branch by pruned branch,
a child has climbed
the family tree
to queen it over us:
we groundlings search
the flowering... (Read full poem)
24. Americanisation - written by G.K. Chesterton
Read 747 times on Poetry Connection.
Britannia needs no Boulevards,
No spaces wide and gay:
Her march was through the crooked streets
Along the narrow way.
Nor looks she where, New York's seduction,
The Broadway leadeth to destruction.
Britannia needs no Cafes:
If Coffee... (Read full poem)
25. We Too Had Known Golden Hours - written by W. H. Auden
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We, too, had known golden hours
When body and soul were in tune,
Had danced with our true loves
By the light of a full moon,
And sat with the wise and good
As tongues grew witty and gay
Over some noble dish
Out of Escoffier;
Had felt the... (Read full poem)
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