• Dan Andersson - John Iron

    I’m waiting…

    I’m waiting by my log-fire while the hours gently wander, while the stars all are roaming and nights come and go. I’m waiting for a woman who comes from far yonder – the dearest one, the dearest one with blue eyes aglow. I thought of a roaming and snow-covered flower…

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Love Philosophy

    The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In another’s being mingle– Why not I with thine? See, the mountains kiss high heaven, And…

  • William Blake

    To Morning

    O HOLY virgin! clad in purest white, Unlock heav’n’s golden gates, and issue forth; Awake the dawn that sleeps in heaven; let light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey’d dew that cometh on waking day.         5 O radiant morning, salute the…

  • Robert Bridges

    Winter Nightfall

    THE day begins to droop,—     Its course is done: But nothing tells the place     Of the setting sun. The hazy darkness deepens,     And up the lane You may hear, but cannot see,     The homing wain. An engine pants and hums    …

  • William Blake

    I love the jocund dance

    I LOVE the jocund dance, The softly breathing song, Where innocent eyes do glance, And where lisps the maiden’s tongue. I love the laughing vale,          I love the echoing hill, Where mirth does never fail, And the jolly swain laughs his fill. I love the pleasant…

  • Francis William Lauderdale Adams

    The Truth.

        By Francis William Lauderdale Adams      Come then, let us at least know what’s the truth.         Let us not blink our eyes and say      We did not understand; old age or youth         Benumbed our sense or stole…

  • Francis William Lauderdale Adams

    Australia

         I see a land of desperate droughts and floods:      I see a land where need keeps spreading round,      And all but giants perish in the stress:      I see a land where more, and more, and more      The demons, Earth and…

  • Lascelles Abercrombie

    Hymn To Love

    We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee, As théou, Léove, were the déep thought And we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we, Thy fires of thought out-spoken: But burn’d not through us thy imagining Like fiérce méood in a séong céaught, We…

  • William Blake

    On Another’s Sorrow

    Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear,       And not feel my sorrow’s share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow fill’d? Can…