For Sidney Bechet (Philip Larkin Poem)
That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes Like New Orleans reflected on the water, And in all ears appropriate ...
Poems about circus (25 Poems)
The Big Top (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
The boom and blare of the big brass band is cheering to my heart And I like the smell of ...
For an Earth-Landing (Erica Jong Poem)
the sky sinks its blue teeth into the mountains. Rising on pure will (the lurch & lift-off, the sudden swing ...
In The Old Theatre, Fiesole. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I traced the Circus whose gray stones incline Where Rome and dim Etruria interjoin, Till came a child who showed ...
girl (three) and the black horse (Rg Gregory Poem)
i want to hold the horse's string cried the girl (three) stamping her foot told by adults she was much ...
Snow (Louise Gluck Poem)
Late December: my father and I are going to New York, to the circus. He holds me on his shoulders ...
The Lion For Real (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
We Astronomers (Rebecca Elson Poem)
We astronomers are nomads, Merchants, circus people, All the earth our tent. We are industrious. We breed enthusiasms, Honour our ...
Moorland pool (Ian Emberson Poem)
Socket in peat-skinned skull of hill watching through Cyclops eye, the white-limbed clouds trapezing still that circus ring of sky. ...
Kinky (Denise Duhamel Poem)
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
To the Unknown Warrior (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
You whom the kings saluted; who refused not The one great pleasure of ignoble days, Fame without name and glory ...
At The Other End Of The Telescope (George Bradley Poem)
the people are very small and shrink, dwarves on the way to netsuke hell bound for a flea circus in ...
Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended ...
Testament (Wendell Berry Poem)
1. Dear relatives and friends, when my last breath Grows large and free in air, don't call it death -- ...
Part 2 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
ANOTHER METHOD OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP And this is a very small cookbook for Trout Fishing in America as if ...
Cirque D’Hiver (Elizabeth Bishop Poems)
Across the floor flits the mechanical toy, fit for a king of several centuries back. A little circus horse with ...
To George Sand: A Desire (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
THOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man, Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions Of thy tumultuous senses, moans ...
Tar and Feathers (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Oh! the circus swooped down On the Narrabri town, For the Narrabri populace moneyed are; And the showman he smiled ...
The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 (Alexander Pope Poems)
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
When Dacey rode the Mule (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'TWAS to a small, up-country town, When we were boys at school, There came a circus with a clown, Likewise ...
An Expostulation to Lord King (Thomas Moore Poems)
How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn, When you ...
Shack Dye (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me. They took big fish off my hook And put little ...
Sam Hookey (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I ran away from home with the circus, Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle Estralada, The lion tamer. One time, ...
Gangrene (Philip Levine Poems)
Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses calomnies, vous avey conquis les coeurs. Zola, J'accuse One was kicked in ...