The Dunciad: Book III. (Alexander Pope Poems)
But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd, On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd. Him close she curtains round with ...
Poems about butchers (21 Poems)
The Dunciad: Book I. (Alexander Pope Poems)
The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings, I sing. Say you, ...
Eclogue:Composed at Cannes, December 9th, 1867 (Edward Lear Poems)
(Interlocutors--Mr. Lear and Mr. and Mrs. Symonds.) Edwardus--What makes you look so black, so glum, so cross? ...
The Children In The Wood: Or, The Norfolk Gentleman’s Last Will And Testament: To The Tune Of Rogero (Anonymous British Poems)
Now ponder well, you parents deare,These wordes which I shall write;A doleful story you shall heare,In time brought forth to ...
What’s the Good? (Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy Poems)
Well, I've done my bit o' scrappin',And I've done in quite a lot;Nicked 'em neatly wiv my bayonet,So I needn't ...
The Hog, The Sheep, And Goat, Carrying To A Fair (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
Who does not wish, ever to judge aright, And, in the Course of Life's Affairs, To have ...
In This Cul-de-Sac (Ahmad Shamlu Poems)
To make sure You have not said: "I love you," They smell your breath. They even smell your heart Trying ...
Tyne Dock (Francis Scarfe Poems)
The summer season at Tyne DockHoisted my boyhood in a craneAbove the shaggy mining town,Above the slaghills and the rocks,Above ...
The Allies (Amy Lowell Poem)
August 14th, 1914 Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats ...
The Hog, The Sheep, And Goat, Carrying To A FAIR (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Who does not wish, ever to judge aright, And, in the Course of Life's Affairs, To have a quick, and ...
To Those Born After (Bertolt Brecht Poem)
To the cities I came in a time of disorder That was ruled by hunger. I sheltered with the people ...
Elegy for an Enemy (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
327. On Glenriddell’s Fox breaking his chain: A Fragment (Robert Burns Poems)
THOU, Liberty, thou art my theme; Not such as idle poets dream, Who trick thee up a heathen goddess That ...
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova Poem)
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
111. Address to Beelzebub (Robert Burns Poems)
LONG life, my Lord, an' health be yours, Unskaithed by hunger'd Highland boors; Lord grant me nae duddie, desperate beggar, ...
Freedom (Charles Bukowski Poems)
he drank wine all night of the 28th, and he kept thinking of her: the way she walked and talked ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 5 (Barry Tebb Poems)
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
The Soldier Of Fortune (Robert William Service Poems)
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
A Description of a City Shower (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Careful Observers may fortel the Hour (By sure Prognosticks) when to dread a Show'r: While Rain depends, the pensive Cat ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Alexander Pope Poems)
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
The Trap (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
She was taught desire in the street, Not at the angels' feet. By the good no word was said Of ...