Fly Poems

Fly Poems

Bird Songs, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

The birds are happy, singing all day through
...

The Wild Deer, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

Fly for thy life, fleet, frightened crature, ...

In Woodland Shades, by Mary Dow Brine

There are blossoms in the garden, sweet and fa...

The Old Barn, by Mary Dow Brine

Oh! A jolly old place is grandpa's barn,
Wher...

The Deserted Village, by Mary T. Lathrap

A city deserted! How strangely still
Falls the...

To Dawn, by Maurice Browne

Thou that of twilight art fashioned,
Starligh...

Europa, by Moschus

Cypris, when all but shone the dawn's glad bea...

The Leaves on the Stream, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Flow on, flow on, thou classic stream,
In q...

The Slave's Soliloquy, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

I am a slave! Oh why was I born!
Why was I mad...

Sunset, by Mrs. O. M. Livingston

Ye sunset clouds like flakes of gold,
That fl...

Spring, by Nellie Seelye Evans

The lawn's green silk is softly drawn
About th...

Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When ...

The Swallows, by Pierre-Jean de Béranger

On the Moorish coast, chain-tethered,
Thus a...

The Dead God, by Pierre Quillard

ONE star alone on the bier, one only star.
O ...

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, by Richard Lovelace

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind,
That from ...

A Woman's Thought, by Richard Watson Gilder

I AM a woman--therefore I may not
Call to him,...

When the Gold is on the Willow, by Robert McIntyre

When the gold is on the willow, and the purple...

The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey

It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work w...

God's Judgment on Hatto, by Robert Southey

The summer and autumn had been so wet,
That i...

Christmas Pictures, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Christmas-Eve! And all unruffled
Dumb white sp...

The Desire of the Moth, by Rose Terry Cooke

Golden-colored miller,
Leave the lamp, and f...

Fantasia, by Rose Terry Cooke

When I am a sea-flower
Under the cool green ti...

The Lesson, by Rose Terry Cooke

Flutter thy new wings lightly,
Poor, fearful...

The Ballad of East and West, by Rudyard Kipling

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and neve...

The Firefly, by S. Moore

Pretty little firefly
Luminous and bright,
W...