Reminiscing (Lysius Gough Poems)
Where long ago the Indian roamedand chased the buffalo.White men now have built their homes,and plow and plant and reap ...
Poems about aeroplanes (21 Poems)
The Wren (John Freeman Poems)
Within the greenhouse dim and damp The heat floats like a cloud.Pale rose-leaves droop from the rust roof With rust-edged roses bowed. As ...
Dear Lithuanian (Juozas Tysliava Poems)
My countryman, dear LithuanianBrought up in meadows and in leafy dales,To lead a new life is my invitation,A life loud ...
The Zeppelin Armada (Jessie Pope Poems)
"TO-DAY, since Zeppelins are in the air,And folks glance skywards as they go their ways,Let us hark back a bit ...
Ostel 1917 (Malcolm Cowley Poems)
By dayThe town basks in the sun like some Aztec ruin.There is quiet in the trenches nearby; quiet and strained ...
Lob (Edward Thomas Poems)
At hawthorn-time in Wiltshire travellingIn search of something chance would never bring,An old man's face, by life and weather cutAnd ...
A Marriage (Eli Siegel Poems)
1. North Carolina, Washington and Baltimore. 2. An auto going south, and words in a room, And outside, pink of ...
With The Submarines (Donald Marquis Poems)
ABOVE, the baffled twilight fails; beneath, the blind snakes creep; Beside us glides the charnel shark, our pilot through the ...
‘Musterin’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, I've ridden 'em rough an' I've ridden 'em kind, Brumbies and prads well-bred.Of every colour and every kind - ...
Flying Squirrels (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
On the rugged water shedAt the top of the bridle trackWhere years ago, as the old men say,The splitters went ...
Progress (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
FARMER SYKES speaks his mind:Do you think your wireless and aeroplanesAre half as helpful as timely rains?Lang-distance 'phone an' lang-firing ...
Progression (Francis Scarfe Poems)
See that satan pollarding a tree,That geometric man straightening a road:Surely such passions are perverse and oddThat violate windows and ...
The Letters (Eileen Carney Hulme Poem)
I wonder if you keep the letters still, spidery and blotted now, like old days just withered away. I remember ...
Five Ways To Kill A Man (Edwin Brock Poem)
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Inexpensive Progress (John Betjeman Poem)
Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And ...
Five Ways To Kill A Man (Andre Breton Poem)
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
Cape Breton (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford, the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand with their ...
THREE SONGS FOR MAYDAY MORNING (Barry Tebb Poems)
( I ) for 'JC' of the TLS Nightmare of metropolitan amalgam Grand Hotel and myself as a guest there ...
LETTERS TO FRIENDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Eddie Linden Dear Eddie we've not met Except upon the written page And at your age the wonder Is ...
Statistics (Carl Sandburg Poems)
NAPOLEON shifted, Restless in the old sarcophagus And murmured to a watchguard: "Who goes there?" "Twenty-one million men, Soldiers, armies, ...
No, You Be A Lone Eagle (Ogden Nash Poems)
I find it very hard to be fair-minded About people who go around being air-minded. I just can't see any ...