JUVENILE POEMS

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Weep No More My Child

Look in my eyes,
What's in your eyes?
What can you see when you look in my eyes?
Your eyes is so meek and full of kindness,
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Iyke Flint

Iyke Flint
Weeding

As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play,
Was labouring industriously hard
To cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away,
Which grew in her father's court-yard;
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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb
The Fudges In England. Letter Vii. From Miss Fanny Fudge, To Her Cousin, Miss Kitty ----.

IRREGULAR ODE.

Bring me the slumbering souls of flowers,
While yet, beneath some northern sky,
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Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore
She's Just A Girl

Her hair flows slowly like a river on her shoulders,
And like the shine of water in a sunny day,
Her hair brights in color shades,
To my eyes delight, a scenery so great.
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Cristina Teodor

Cristina Teodor
Ode To The Book

When I close a book
I open life.
I hear
faltering cries
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Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda
To Barine

If for your oath broken, or word lightly spoken,
A plague comes, Barine, to grieve you;
If on tooth or on finger a black mark shall linger
Your beauty to mar, I'll believe you.
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Eugene Field

Eugene Field
A Ballad For Elderly Kids

Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones,
And likewise of Bobadil Brown,
Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs and Malones,
And Diggle and Daggle and Down.
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Curtain

Villain shows his indiscretion,
Villain's partner makes confession.
Juvenile, with golden tresses,
Finds her pa and dons long dresses.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar
You Can Be A Republican, I'm A Genocrat

Oh, "rorty" was a mid-Victorian word
Which meant "fine, splendid, jolly,"
And often to me it has reoccurred
In moments melancholy.
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Ogden Nash
The Comedian As The Letter C: 03 - Approaching Carolina

The book of moonlight is not written yet
Nor half begun, but, when it is, leave room
For Crispin, fagot in the lunar fire,
Who, in the hubbub of his pilgrimage
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Wallace Stevens
Christmas Holidays

Along the Woodford road there comes a noise
Of wheels, and Mr. Rounding's neat post-chaise
Struggles along, drawn by a pair of bays,
With Reverend Mr. Crow and six small boys,
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Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood
Expenses

I'm sick to death of money, of the lack of it, that is,
And of practising perpetually small economies;
Of paring off a penny here, another penny there,
Of the planning and the worrying, the everlasting care.
.....

Gamaliel Bradford
Death And The Maiden

BARCAROLE ON THE STYX


Fair youth with the rose at your lips,
.....

Elinor Morton Wylie
The Prelude - Book Eleventh

FRANCE (concluded)

From that time forth, Authority in France
Put on a milder face; Terror had ceased,
.....
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Julot The Apache

You've heard of Julot the apache, and Gigolette, his mome. . . .
Montmartre was their hunting-ground, but Belville was their home.
A little chap just like a boy, with smudgy black mustache,-
Yet there was nothing juvenile in Julot the apache.
.....
Robert Service

Robert Service
The Ring And The Book

Do you see this Ring?
'Tis Rome-work, made to match
(By Castellani's imitative craft)
Etrurian circlets found, some happy morn,
.....
Robert Browning

Robert Browning
Don Juan - Canto The Tenth.

When Newton saw an apple fall, he found
In that slight startle from his contemplation -
'T is said (for I 'll not answer above ground
For any sage's creed or calculation) -
.....

George Gordon Byron
Thirty-nine

O hapless day! O wretched day!
I hoped you'd pass me by-
Alas, the years have sneaked away
And all is changed but I!
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Eugene Field

Eugene Field
Pilot

Merry Carlo, who runn'st at my heels
Through the dense-crowded streets of the city,
In and out among hurrying wheels,
And whose run in the suburbs reveals
.....

Arthur Weir
A, B, C.

A is an Angel of blushing eighteen:
B is the Ball where the Angel was seen:
C is her Chaperone, who cheated at cards:
D is the Deuxtemps, with Frank of the Guards:
.....

Charles Stuart Calverley
A Descriptive Poem On The Silvery Tay

Beautiful silvery Tay,
With your landscapes, so lovely and gay,
Along each side of your waters, to Perth all the way;
No other river in the world has got scenery more fine,
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall
The Christmas Goose

Mr. Smiggs was a gentleman,
And he lived in London town;
His wife she was a good kind soul,
And seldom known to frown.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall
Tar And Feathers

Oh! the circus swooped down
On the Narrabri town,
For the Narrabri populace moneyed are;
And the showman he smiled
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Banjo Paterson
Don Juan: Canto The Tenth

When Newton saw an apple fall, he found
In that slight startle from his contemplation--
'Tis said (for I 'll not answer above ground
For any sage's creed or calculation)--
.....

George Gordon Byron
'monstre' Balloon

Oh! the balloon, the great balloon!
It left Vauxhall one Monday at noon,
And every one said we should hear of it soon
With news from Aleppo or Scanderoon.
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Richard Harris Barham
Book Eleventh: France [concluded]

FROM that time forth, Authority in France
Put on a milder face; Terror had ceased,
Yet everything was wanting that might give
Courage to them who looked for good by light
.....
William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Lines -- For Berkshire Jubilee, Aug. 23, 1844

Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame,
Who have wandered like truants for riches or fame!
With a smile on her face, and a sprig in her cap,
She calls you to feast from her bountiful lap.
.....

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1819 New Year's Carrier's Address

Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far,
Without any compass, or planet or star;
My dear native village I scarcely can see
So I'll hie to my hive like the tempest-tost bee.
.....

Henry Livingston Jr.
Julot The Apache

You've heard of Julot the apache, and Gigolette, his mome. . . .
Montmartre was their hunting-ground, but Belville was their home.
A little chap just like a boy, with smudgy black mustache, --
Yet there was nothing juvenile in Julot the apache.
.....

Robert William Service
The 'monstre' Balloon

Oh! the balloon, the great balloon!
It left Vauxhall one Monday at noon,
And every one said we should hear of it soon
With news from Aleppo or Scanderoon.
.....

Richard Harris Barham
Tar And Feathers

Oh! the circus swooped down
On the Narrabri town,
For the Narrabri populace moneyed are;
And the showman he smiled
.....

Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)
Morning In The Bush (a Juvenile Fragment.)

Above the skirts of yellow clouds,
The god-like Sun, arrayed
In blinding splendour, swiftly rose,
And looked athwart the glade;
.....

Henry Kendall
The Birds And St. Valentine

Sorrow came with downcast eyes,
And stole the lyre of love away.
- VAN DYK.

.....
John Clare

John Clare
Mother....

Why you left me all alone mother....
Mother ...the dream you gave ...
Is to complete ...
You taught me to fly and fight
.....
Rayaba Saindane

Rayaba Saindane
Etching Moralised. To A Noble Lady.

"To point a moral." - JOHNSON.


Fairest Lady and Noble, for once on a time,
.....
Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood
Wealth

[From Arthur Selwyn's Note-book.]


Here in The City I ponder,
.....

William Mckendree Carleton
Welcome To Spring

Spring, you are welcome, for you are the friend of
Fathers of all little girlies and chaps.
Spring, you are welcome, for you mean the end of
Bundling them up in their cold-weather wraps.
.....

Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
Handicraft

Here is an art ,
a pattern;
sunken eyes glowing with wisdom from deep beneath
feathers shiny and as white as kans flower
.....
Quaid Uz Zaman

Quaid Uz Zaman
Song Of Renunciation, A

(AFTER A. C. S.)

In the days of my season of salad,
When the down was as dew on my cheek,
.....

Owen Seaman
Braggadocio

Chess playing Death
- no, the reverse
Death sitting decked out and self-satisfied
in black no mandatory top hat but a shroud
.....

Paul Cameron Brown
Lines Recited At The Berkshire Jubilee, Pittsfield, Mass., August 23, 1844

Come back to your mother, ye children, for shame,
Who have wandered like truants for riches or fame!
With a smile on her face, and a sprig in her cap,
She calls you to feast from her bountiful lap.
.....

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Horace, Ode Xi. Lib. Ii. Freely Translated By The Prince Regent

[1]


Come, Yarmouth, my boy, never trouble your brains,
.....
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore
A Valentine

O how shall I write a love-ditty
To my Alice on Valentine's day?
How win the affection or pity
Of a being so lively and gay?
.....

Edward Woodley Bowling
My Old Classical Master

Ever hail'd with delight when my memory strays
O'er the various scenes of my juvenile days,
Do you mind if I sing a poor song in your praise,
My jolly old classical master?
.....

W. M. Mackeracher
Science, The Iconoclast

"Oh! spare dual idols of the past,
Whose lips are dumb, whose eyes are dim;
Truth's diadem is not for him
Who comes, the fierce Iconoclast:
.....

Kate Seymour Maclean
Virtue

[From Farmer Harrington's Calendar.]

OCTOBER 1, 18 - .

.....

William Mckendree Carleton
The Consultation

[1]


"When they do agree, their unanimity is wonderful. The Critic.
.....
Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore
Les Enfants Perdus

What has become of the children all?
How have the darlings vanished?
Fashion's pied piper, with magical air,
Has wooed them away, with their flaxen hair
.....

George Augustus Baker, Jr.
A, B, C

A is an Angel of blushing eighteen:
B is the Ball where the Angel was seen:
C is her Chaperone, who cheated at cards:
D is the Deuxtemps, with Frank of the Guards:
.....

Charles Stuart Calverley
Tu Quoque, An Idyll In The Conservatory

nellie
If I were you, when ladies at the play, Sir,
Beckon and nod, a melodrama through,
I would not turn abstractedly away, Sir,
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Henry Austin Dobson

Henry Austin Dobson