A Poem a Day

A reader’s almanac of short poems — one for each day, drawn from the most beloved lyrics in the language.

A daily dose of the best verse

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Showing 120 works from the first 120 entries in this collection.

• The Spell is Broke, the Charm is Flown!
• I Cannot Pay that Premium
• Author's Aftword
• Old and New
• Two Nameless Kittens
• A Little Road not Made of Man
• King and Siren
• Wet-Weather Talk
• Ready to Depart
• Red Riding-Hood
• The Sea
• Lullaby; by the Sea
• The Sleeper
• Why did I Sketch
• Love and Business
• The Three Wishes
• To a River in Which a Child Was Drowned
• TO A CHILD. (Rosamund.)
• The Irish Colonel
• On Fame
• Footsteps
• Theme and Variations
• Postlude
• The Sword and the Spit
• The God Called Poetry
• Adolph Linick
• Pien D' Un Vago Pensier, Che me Desvia
• How Much Happens in a Day
• Bin a-Fishin'
• The Little Tree
• Sary Emma's Photygraphs
• Dead in Sight of Fame
• Victor
• Love's Burial-Place
• Thou Also
• In an Old Burying Ground
• The Immortal Word
• To the Wolf at the Door
• Down Around the River
• My Fiddle
• Balloons
• Trees
• Kissing Time
• Little-Oh-Dear
• Handsome Nell
• O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day
• I Dream'D I Lay
• The Tarbolton Lasses
• Ah, Woe is me, my Mother Dear
• Montgomerie's Peggy
• The Ploughman's Life
• Here's to Thy Health
• The Lass of Cessnock Banks
• Bonie Peggy Alison
• Mary Morison
• Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish
• Fickle Fortune: a Fragment
• Raging Fortune: Fragment of Song
• I'll Go and be a Sodger
• No Churchman am I
• My Father was a Farmer
• Poor Mailie's Elegy
• Song Composed in August
• My Nanie, O
• Green Grow the Rashes
• Remorse: a Fragment
• Epitaph on my own Friend and my Father's Friend, Wm. Muir in Tarbolton Mill
• A Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter
• The Mauchline Lady
• My Girl she's Airy
• The Belles of Mauchline
• On Tam the Chapman
• Epitaph on John Rankine
• Lines on the Author's Death
• One Night as I did Wander
• Tho' Cruel Fate should Bid Us Part
• Rantin', Rovin' Robin
• Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
• Farewell to Ballochmyle
• To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough
• For a' That
• Merry Hae I been Teethin a Heckle
• Here's his Health in Water
• Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
• To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
• To Mr. M'Adam, of Craigen-Gillan
• To a Louse, on Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet, at Church
• Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More's
• Song, Composed in Spring
• To a Mountain Daisy
• To Ruin
• The Lament
• Versified Reply to an Invitation
• Will Ye Go to the Indies, my Mary?
• The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James' Lodge, Tarbolton
• Farewell to Eliza
• A Bard's Epitaph
• Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq
• Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq
• Epitaph on "Wee Johnie"
• The Lass o' Ballochmyle
• Lines to an Old Sweetheart
• Motto Prefixed to the Author's First Publication
• Lines to Mr. John Kennedy
• Lines Written on a Banknote
• The Night was Still, and o'Er the Hill
• Prayer-O Thou Dread Power
• Address to the Toothache
• Fragment on Sensibility
• Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
• Address to a Haggis
• To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems, for a New-Year's Gift
• Rattlin', Roarin' Willie
• Bonie Dundee
• Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope-House
• The Bonie Moor-Hen
• My Lord a-Hunting
• Epigram at Roslin Inn
• Lines Written under the Picture of the Celebrated Miss Burns
• Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee

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