Sports Poems

Sports Poems

Birches, by Robert Frost

WHEN I see birches bend to left and right
Acro...

The Burial of the Dead, by T. S. Eliot

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs...

Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And...

The Death of the Old Year, by Alfred Tennyson

Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the ...

A Dirge, by Alfred Tennyson

1 Now is done thy long day's work;
Fold thy...

Lancelot and Elaine, by Alfred Tennyson

Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,
Elaine...

Merlin and Vivien, by Alfred Tennyson

A storm was coming, but the winds were still, ...

'T Was Later When the Summer Went, by Emily Dickinson

'T WAS later when the summer went
Than when th...

A Tale, by Robert Browning

What a pretty tale you told me
Once upon a tim...

A Toccata of Galuppi's, by Robert Browning

Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to f...

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed, by Amy Lowell

A drifting, April, twilight sky,
A wind whi...

Thou Hast Thy Calling to Some Palace-Floor, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
M...

Waifs and Strays, by Arthur Rimbaud

BLACK in the fog and in the snow,
Where the g...

The Cricket's Song, by Francis Jammes

LAST night the cricket sang when all was still....

You Would Be Naked, by Francis Jammes

You would be naked on the wet and pink heather,...

A Summer Night, by Andrew Downing

The warm, long day is ended,
The cooler nigh...

Baseball in de Park, by Arthur Guiterman

The Captain of the Neversweats was rooted in hi...

An Autumn Cricket, by Clinton Scollard

In the warm hush of the autumnal night
I list ...

Conversations with Patriotism, by Joshua Knight

Under a tree
near the cement shore of a man-ma...

Descent, by Keith Holyoak

I. The Bank “ It goes in ninety seconds!...

Spectrum of Mrs. Q, by Marjorie Allen Seiffert

Fear not, beautiful lady,
That I shall ravis...

Short Term Memory Loss, by Mark Thalman

Mother, a Phi Beta Kappa,
who graduated seco...

Song of the Cricket, by Martha Lavinia Hoffman

When the Summer moonlight evening, weird, fan...

Fight, by Percy MacKaye

The Tale of a Gunner at the Battle of Plattsbur...

Under the Sands, by Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

Suggested by a notice of Sir Douglas Forsyth's ...