I have recently, since mid-summer, been trying to re-find a poetry site that I once came across. I found it while looking for a poem to memorize for a class just over two years ago. It was a rather extensive site, given that anyone could add poems to it if they discovered one missing, and covered everything from a few Roman (in Latin!) poems up through many of the more modern works. I have no idea what it was called, except that I think "poetry" or similar might have been somewhere in the title. I think, at the time, the color scheme involved purple. And you could search by author, by title, or by keywords within the poems. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about? And if you do, please, please let me know the site's address!
I've found this one, from which I took the following poem:
Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms
But which will bloom most constantly?
The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,
Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again
And who will call the wild-briar fair?
Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now
And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That when December blights thy brow
He may still leave thy garland green.
But that isn't the right site; it doesn't carry half so many poems, nor, in particular, the ones I am looking for. (If I could remember either the title or poet I'm looking for, or even any particular lines of the poem, I'd give them to you, but I can't.) It doesn't even carry many of Chesterton's poems. Though it does have this one:
Lo! I am come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold;
Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out
The year and I are old.
In youth I sought the prince of men,
Captain in cosmic wars,
Our Titan, even the weeds would show
Defiant, to the stars.
But now a great thing in the street
Seems any human nod,
Where shift in strange democracy
The million masks of God.
In youth I sought the golden flower
Hidden in wood or wold,
But I am come to autumn,
When all the leaves are gold.
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