IT often chances that the staunchest boat Goes down in seas whereon a leaf might float. What mighty epics have been wrecked by Time Since Herrick launched his cockle-shells of rhyme! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE FOR A SOCIAL MEETING, WITH SLIGHT ALTERATIONS BY A TEETOTALER by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE FAIRIES OF THE CALDON LOW; A MIDSUMMER LEGEND by MARY HOWITT SONNET ON SITTING DOWN TO READ KING LEAR ONCE AGAIN by JOHN KEATS WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |