On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers (Thomas Hood Poem)
She was a woman peerless in her station, With household virtues wedded to her name; Spotless in linen, grass-bleached in ...
Poems about apron (31 Poems)
THE APRON OF FLOWERS (Robert Herrick Poem)
To gather flowers, Sappha went, And homeward she did bring Within her lawny continent, The treasure of the Spring. She ...
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication (Seamus Heaney Poem)
1. Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the ...
No Buyers (Thomas Hardy Poem)
A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs Labours along the street in the rain: With it a ...
I DREAM OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHER (Maria Mazziotti Gillan Poem)
I imagine them walking down rocky paths toward me, strong, Italian women returning at dusk from fields where they worked ...
HANS SACHS’ POETICAL MISSION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
Saints (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Touching our lives, setting an example a way of living out the commandments for us to follow and to model ...
Babushka (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She was walking on the sidewalk just around the corner from home, from her place here is the city so ...
Doe Eyes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Out of the fog of dusk she stood motionless watching in stillness the rush of human life hurtling past her ...
The Sugar-Plum Tree (Eugene Field Poem)
Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'T is a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore ...
The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
The Death of the Hired Man (Robert Frost Poem)
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on ...
‘Out, Out–‘ (Robert Frost Poems)
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when ...
Tho’ my destiny be Fustian (Emily Dickinson Poems)
Tho' my destiny be Fustian -- Hers be damask fine -- Tho' she wear a silver apron -- I, a ...
It sounded as if the Streets were running (Emily Dickinson Poem)
It sounded as if the Streets were running And then -- the Streets stood still -- Eclipse -- was all ...
I’m saying every day (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I'm saying every day "If I should be a Queen, tomorrow" -- I'd do this way -- And so I ...
Although I put away his life (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Although I put away his life -- An Ornament too grand For Forehead low as mine, to wear, This might ...
Over the fence (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Over the fence -- Strawberries -- grow -- Over the fence -- I could climb -- if I tried, I ...
I started Early — Took my Dog — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I started Early -- Took my Dog -- And visited the Sea -- The Mermaids in the Basement Came out ...
Last Poem of my 45th Year (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I thought of how a whale's white ribs could choke the sky's blue neck, massive vertebrae half-buried in sand, and ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Litany (Billy Collins Poem)
You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and ...
A Culinary Puzzle (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
In our dainty little kitchen, Where my aproned wife is queen Over all the tin-pan people, In a realm exceeding ...
From On Being Fired Again (Erin Belieu Poem)
I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times- most notably by Larry who found my snood unsuitable, ...
Fra Lippo Lippi (Robert Browning Poem)
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Snapshot of a Lump (Kelli Russell Agodon Poem)
I imagine Nice and topless beaches, women smoking and reading novels in the sun. I pretend I am comfortable undressing ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 02: The Fulfilled Dream (Conrad Aiken Poem)
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...
Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The (William Allingham Poem)
Little Cowboy, what have you heard, Up on the lonely rath's green mound? Only the plaintive yellow bird Sighing in ...
80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata (Robert Burns Poems)
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...