THURSDAY POEMS

Pleasant Prophecies

A day of gladness yet will dawn,
Though when I cannot say;
Perhaps it may be Thursday week,
Perhaps some other day,â??
.....

Robert Fuller Murray

A Modest Request

Complied With After The Dinner At President Everett's Inauguration

Scene, - a back parlor in a certain square,
Or court, or lane, - in short, no matter where;
.....

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Three Spring Notations On Bipeds

THE DOWN drop of the blackbird,
The wing catch of arrested flight,
The stop midway and then off: off for triangles, circles, loops of new hieroglyphs-
This is April's way: a woman:
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Carl Sandburg

The Loss Of The Victoria

Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom,
Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb;
Who served aboard the " Victoria," the biggest ship in the navy,
And one of the finest battleships that ever sailed the sea.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall

Thursday

For E.B.


The finest day of the week,
.....

Elizabeth H. Nearing

Black Stone On Top Of A White Stone

I shall die in Paris, in a rainstorm,
On a day I already remember.
I shall die in Paris-- it does not bother me--
Doubtless on a Thursday, like today, in autumn.
.....

Cesar Vallejo

Holy Thursday (innocence)

Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean
The children walking two & two in red & blue & green
Grey headed beadles walked before with wands as white as snow
Till into the high dome of Pauls they like Thames waters flow
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William Blake

Thursday

And if I loved you Wednesday,
Well, what is that to you?
I do not love you Thursday-
So much is true.
.....

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Wolfe New Ballad Of Jane Roney And Mary Brown

An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this veek-
I stood in the Court of A'Beckett the Beak,
Vere Mrs. Jane Roney, a vidow, I see,
Who charged Mary Brown with a robbin of she.
.....

William Makepeace Thackeray

Holy Thursday

'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
Came children walking two and two, in read, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
.....

William Blake

Holy Thursday (experience)

Is this a holy thing to see.
In a rich and fruitful land.
Babes reduced to misery.
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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William Blake

Patterns

I walk down the garden paths,
And all the daffodils
Are blowing, and the bright blue squills.
I walk down the patterned garden-paths
.....

Amy Lowell

Thursday

So well the week has sped, hast thou a friend,
Go spend an hour in converse. It will lend
New beauty to thy labours and thy life
To pause a little sometimes in the strife.
.....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thursday

I have had my dream-like others-
and it has come to nothing, so that
I remain now carelessly
with feet planted on the ground
.....

William Carlos Williams

Thursday (ii)

Leaves are greygreen,
the glass broken, bright green.


.....

William Carlos Williams

Paris

I

First, London, for its myriads; for its height,
Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite;
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Alan Seeger

Maundy Thursday

Between the brown hands of a server-lad
The silver cross was offered to be kissed.
The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad,
And knelt reluctantly, half-prejudiced.
.....

Wilfred Owen

Thursday Before Easter

As the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came
forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly
beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the
vision. Daniel ix. 23.
.....

John Keble

A Week

On Monday night I closed my door,
And thought you were not as heretofore,
And little cared if we met no more.

.....

Thomas Hardy

Verses For After-dinner

PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, 1844
I WAS thinking last night, as I sat in the cars,
With the charmingest prospect of cinders and stars,
Next Thursday is--bless me!--how hard it will be,
.....

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Seer

Somewhere or other, 'tis doubtful where,
In the archives of Gosh is a volume rare,
A precious old classic that nobody reads,
And nobody asks for, and nobody heeds;
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Chapel Deacon

Who put that crease in your soul,
Davies, ready this fine morning
For the staid chapel, where the Book's frown
Sobers the sunlight? Who taught you to pray
.....

Ronald Stuart Thomas

Aurora Leigh: Book Fourth

They met still sooner. 'Twas a year from thence
That Lucy Gresham, the sick sempstress girl,
Who sewed by Marian's chair so still and quick,
And leant her head upon its back to cough
.....

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Appletrees

I
Sweet appletree, your branches delight me,
Luxuriantly budding my pride and joy!
I will put before the lord of Macreu,
.....

Anonymous Olde English

The Wreck Of The Steamer Mohegan

Good people of high and low degree,
I pray ye all to list to me,
And I'll relate a terrible tale of the sea
Concerning the unfortunate steamer, Mohegan,
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall

The Wreck Of The Columbine

Kind Christians, all pay attention to me,
And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye;
While on board the Columbine, on the merciless sea,
Tossing about in the darkness of night in the storm helplessly.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall

To Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Dedication to 'The Man who was Thursday'

A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather,
Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul when we were boys together.
.....

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Report From The Besieged City

Too old to carry arms and fight like the others -

they graciously gave me the inferior role of chronicler
I record - I don't know for whom - the history of the siege
.....

Zbigniew Herbert

The Shepherd's Week : Thursday; Or, The Spell

Hobnelia.
Hobnelia, seated in a dreary vale,
In pensive mood rehears'd her piteous tale,
Her piteous tale the wind in sighs bemoan,
.....

John Gay

The Schoolhouse On The Plain

(From 'An Idyll of the Wimmera.')

On the geodetic line, where the parish boundaries join
At a level and interminable lane
.....

Joseph Furphy

The Tragic Death Of The Rev. A.h. Mackonochie

Friends of humanity, of high and low degree,
I pray ye all come listen to me;
And truly I will relate to ye,
The tragic fate of the Rev. Alexander Heriot Mackonochie.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall

Goody Blake And Harry Gill

Oh! what's the matter? what's the matter?
What is't that ails young Harry Gill?
That evermore his teeth they chatter,
Chatter, chatter, chatter still!
.....

William Wordsworth

The Hartley Calamity

The Hartley men are noble, and
Ye'll hear a tale of woe;
I'll tell the doom of the Hartley men -
The year of sixty two.
.....

Joseph Skipsey

Town Eclogues: Thursday; The Bassette-table

SMILINDA and CARDELIA.CARDELIA.
THE bassette-table spread, the tallier come,
Why stays SMILINDA in the dressing-room ?
Rise, pensive nymph ! the tallier stays for you.
.....

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The Death Of Lord And Lady Dalhousie

Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last,
Which causes many people to feel a little downcast;
And both lie side by side in one grave,
But I hope God in His goodness their souls will save.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall

Nux Postcoenatica

I was sitting with my microscope, upon my parlor rug,
With a very heavy quarto and a very lively bug;
The true bug had been organized with only two antennae,
But the humbug in the copperplate would have them twice as many.
.....

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Holy-cross Day

ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO
ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON
IN ROME.

.....

Robert Browning

Thursday, The Bassette-table

CARDELIA.

The bassette-table spread, the tallier come,
Why stays SMILINDA in the dressing-room?
.....

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The Burning Of The Steamer City Of Montreal

A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal
Concerning the burning of the steamship "City of Montreal,"
Which had on board two hundred and forty-nine souls in all,
But, alas! a fearful catastrophe did them befall.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall

Sir Aldingar

Our king he kept a false stewarde,
Sir Aldingar they him call;
A falser steward than he was one,
Servde not in bower nor hall.
.....

Anonymous Olde English

The Debate

He was a Glug of simple charm;
He wished no living creature harm.
His kindly smile like sunlight fell
On all about, and wished them well.
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Father Riley's Horse

'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog
By the troopers of the upper Murray side,
They had searched in every gully -- they had looked in every log,
But never sight or track of him they spied,
.....

Banjo Paterson

The American Way

1
I am a great American
I am almost nationalistic about it!
I love America like a madness!
.....

Gregory Corso

Father Riley's Horse

'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog
By the troopers of the upper Murray side,
They had searched in every gully, they had looked in every log,
But never sight or track of him they spied,
.....

Banjo Paterson (andrew Barton)

Thursday's Torment

Who would hate rising on a thursday
When rosy fragrance feel the air
Which comes so appealing
Alongside with a thunderous laughter
.....

Williams Emmanuel

Donelson

(February, 1862.)


The bitter cup
.....

Herman Melville

It's Always Thursday

Between Sundays and the week to come,
it’s Thursday wondering where the days have gone.
The flow of tick tocking the passing through,
when the rushing of the important is to pursue.
.....

Robert Rittel

Young Heartbreak

He told me that he didn't
like me like I do
I would be okay with that
if he would still be my friend
.....

Diamond Rose

Their Story Runneth Thus

Two little children played among the flowers,
Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;
The children's ages were the very same
E'en to an hour -- and Ethel was her name,
.....

Abram Joseph Ryan

Nursery Rhyme. Dcxxix. Relics

How many days has my baby to play?
Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
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