Poems about boa (20 Poems)
To Sally (John Quincy Adams Poems)
The man in righteousness arrayed, A pure and blameless liver, Needs not the keen Toledo blade, Nor venom-freighted quiver. What though he wind his toilsome way O’er regions wild and weary- Through Zara’s burning desert stray, Or Asia’s jungles dreary: … Continue reading
A Recalled Prayer (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
Sis Hannah May Liza, so Emphraim sayed,Stole out ‘neaf a sycamo’ tree an’ prayedTo de Lawd in Hebbin, an’ she ast dat HeW’u’d please sen’ her a man fo’ company. Her prayah wuz answered; fo’ a week wen’ ‘roun’,De Arch … Continue reading
At Night (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Whut time ‘d dat clock strike? Nine? No-eight;I didn’t think hit was so late.Aer chew! I must ‘a’ got a cough,I raally b’lieve I did doze off -Hit’s mighty soothin’ to de tiah,A-dozin’ dis way by de fiah;Oo oom – … Continue reading
In the Morning (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
‘LIAS! ‘Lias! Bless de Lawd!Don’ you know de day’s erbroad?Ef you don’ git up, you scamp,Dey’ll be trouble in dis camp.Tink I gwine to let you sleepW’ile I meks yo’ boa’d an’ keep?Dat’s a putty howdy-do—Don’ you hyeah me, ‘Lias … Continue reading
The Foreign Drunk (Henry Lawson Poems)
When you get tight in foreign lands You never need go slinking,No female neighbours lift their hands And say “The brute!-he’s drinking!”No mischief-maker runs with smiles To give your wife a notion,For she may be ten thousand miles Across the bounding ocean. Oh! I’ve … Continue reading
Sleeping With Boa (May Swenson Poems)
I show her how to put her arms around me,but she’s much too small.What’s worse, she doesn’t understand.Andalthough she lies beside me, stickingout her tongue, it’s herself she licks. She likes my stroking hand.Andeven lets me kiss.But at my demand:“Now, … Continue reading
Boa Constrictor (Sheldon Allan Silverstein Poems)
Oh, I’m being eatenBy a boa constrictor,A boa constrictor,A boa constrictor,I’m being eaten by a boa constrictor,And I don’t like it–one bit.Well, what do you know?It’s nibblin’ my toe.Oh, gee,It’s up to my knee.Oh my,It’s up to my thigh.Oh, fiddle,It’s … Continue reading
A Phenomenal Fauna (Carolyn Wells Poems)
THE REG’LAR LARK The Reg’lar Lark’s a very gay old Bird;At sunrise often may his voice be heardAs jauntily he wends his homeward way,And trills a fresh and merry roundelay.And some old, wise philosopher has said:Rise with a lark, and … Continue reading
Palinodia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life A vain and wretched thing, and this, our age, Now passing, vainest, silliest of all. Intolerable seemed, and _was_, … Continue reading
A Christmas Letter From Australia (Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen Poems)
‘T IS Christmas, and the North wind blows; ‘t was two years yesterday Since from the Lusitania’s bows I looked o’er Table Bay, A tripper round the narrow world, a pilgrim of the main, Expecting when her sails unfurled to … Continue reading