Tag: poetry
Tag Description:Winter Landscape Clip Art Illustrates It Snows
This has been a relatively uneventful winter this year in Philadelphia; not much snow to speak of, not a snowman in sight. So all I can do is admire images of long-gone winters and enjoy delightful Victorian poems such as It Snows. Illustrated with a free winter landscape clip art image derived from a Victorian [...]
I’m Not a Single Man
An amusing Victorian poem by British humorist Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845). Illustrated with an antique photograph from my collection. I’m Not a Single Man Thomas Hood Well, I confess, I did not guess, A simple marriage vow Would make me find all women-kind Such unkind women now! They need not, [...]
An Old Fan
A woman looks back with sadness upon her youth in this Victorian poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox from Poems of Pleasure, 1888. Illustrated with a vintage engraving from a 19th century fashion magazine that you can use as royalty-free clip art. An Old Fan It is soiled and quite passé, Broken too, and out of fashion, [...]
Why Are You Weeping, Sister?
Why Are You Weeping, Sister? Why are you weeping, Sister? Why are you sitting alone? I’m bent and gray And I’ve lost the way! All my tomorrows were yesterday! I traded them off for a wanton’s pay. I bartered my graces for silks and laces My heart I sold for a pot of gold– Now [...]
Poetic Puns
The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. Here is an assortment of corny old puns from Poetic Puns, a slim little book dated 1912. I The portrait tumbled [...]
Christmas Hymn
Hail, hail the happy morn, When Christ our Lord was born Sound, sound His praise! The Prince of Righteousness, He came our world to bless, The glorious hymn of “peace” On earth to raise. Angels the song began, And then to ransomed man The strain was given: Hark! joining sweet and mild The voice of [...]
