Sloth Poems

Sloth Poems

The Apology, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone...

May-Day, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daughter of Heaven and Earth, coy Spring,
Wi...

Monadnoc, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thousand minstrels woke within me,
'Our music...

Voluntaries, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I

Low and mournful be the strain,
Haugh...

To a Sky-Lark, by William Wordsworth

Up with me! Up with me into the clouds!
For th...

To a Sky-Lark, by William Wordsworth

Up with me! Up with me into the clouds!
For th...

Georgic I, by Virgil

Whence joyful harvests spring, what heav'nly s...

The Praise of Firmness, by Bhartrhari

The gods with priceless jewels were not bought,...

Cleodamus and Myrson, by Bion of Smyrna

CLEODAMUS. MYRSON. CLEODAMUS.
What sweet for ...

Dead Low Tide, by Edith Matilda Thomas

It is dead low tide, and the wasted sea beats ...

Peace, by Edith Matilda Thomas

Much I desired when Youth did fire my veins,
...

Dream Music, by Edward Robeson Taylor

O spirit mine, arouse thee from a sleep
Which...

Moths, by Eliza Allen Starr

An india shawl--of texture wondrous fair,
Wro...

Restlessness, by George Houghton

Weary with waiting, we climb to the hill-tops ...

The Winter Court at Nidaros, by George Houghton

Long were the night-times on that slip of shore...

In Quest of Summer, by Horace G. Groser

So long the rain-clouds saddening lay
Across t...

Oh What a Wonder the Palaced Path of Lazy Thought, by Prabhath Avadhanula

Oh what a wonder the palaced path of lazy thoug...

Monotropa, by Rose Terry Cooke

Loves serene, uncarnate Graces!
Born of pure ...

The Window, by Stéphane Mallarmé

TIRED of the fetid smell that climbs and sticks...