All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Each littl...

Image adapted from a painting by Hans Baldung-Grie, circa 1484-1545 ______________________________________ To him who, in the love of Natur...

Fear death? -- to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The po...

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the ver...

This drawing has been adapted from a real child's drawing. To see the original, see Rhia.tv ______________________________________ Betw...

In honor of the Autumn snow storm of October 29, 2011: Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the...

Through Goshen Hollow, where hemlocks grow, Where rushing rills, with flash and flow, Are over the rough rocks falling; Where fox, where bea...

Hie upon Hielands, and laigh upon Tay, Bonnie George Campbell rode out on a day. Saddled and bridled and booted rade he; Toom* hame cam'...

1 Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the ...

I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And wh...

Ralph Waldo Emerson , circa 1857 _________________________________________ The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former calle...

* At the mid hour of night, when stars are weeping, I fly To the lone vale we loved, when life shone warm in thine eye; And I think oft, if ...

* A.E. Housman ______________________________________________________ When I was one-and-twenty --- I heard a wise man say, ‘Give crowns an...

* Abraham Lincoln ___________________________________________________________________ An Inaugural Poem, Dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, of I...

* Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton, after Joseph Severn ( National Portrait Gallery, London ). ____________________________________...

* Rudyard Kipling in his study, circa 1895. ______________________________________________________________ If you can keep your head when a...

* I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth, ----- Better than banking, trade or leases — Take a bank note and fold it up, ----- And then ...

* Portrait of Walter Scott, novelist and poet, 1822 by Sir Henry Raeburn. ______________________________________________________________ Th...

* This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its pu...

* Northern Seas, Vilhelm Melbye, 1870 _____________________________________________________________ Up! Up! let us a voyage take; Why sit w...