The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Poems about hen (31 Poems)
There Was an Old Man with a Beard (Edward Lear Poem)
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared! -- Two Owls and ...
The Ballad of the King’s Jest (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the ...
A Parody on “A Psalm of Life” (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
Life is real, life is earnest, And the shell is not its pen - "Egg thou art, and egg remainest" ...
Gioconda And Si-Ya-U (Nazim Hikmet Poem)
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
HIS GRANGE, OR PRIVATE WEALTH (Robert Herrick Poem)
Though clock, To tell how night draws hence, I've none, A cock I have to sing how day draws on: ...
A Thanksgiving to God for His House (Robert Herrick Poem)
Lord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell; An little house, whose humble roof Is weather-proof; Under the ...
The Peasant’s Confession (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
Strong Beer (Robert Graves Poem)
"What do you think The bravest drink Under the sky?" "Strong beer," said I. "There's a place for everything, Everything, ...
The Housekeeper (Robert Frost Poem)
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
Sam Goes To It (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Sam Small had retired from the Army, In the old Duke of Wellington's time, So when present unpleasantness started, He ...
Balbus (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you the story of Balbus, You know, him as builded a wall; I'll tell you the reason he ...
To risk your Liberty (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Called The Hon 'Lizard Gizzard' with aptness bearing fruit from his septic yellow face to his pinstripe business suit, famous ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Lays of Sorrow (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
Hen’s Nest (John Clare Poems)
Among the orchard weeds, from every search, Snugly and sure, the old hen's nest is made, Who cackles every morning ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
377. Song-The Country Lass (Robert Burns Poem)
IN simmer, when the hay was mawn, And corn wav'd green in ilka field, While claver blooms white o'er the ...
273. Song-Tam Glen (Robert Burns Poem)
MY heart is a-breaking, dear Tittie, Some counsel unto me come len', To anger them a' is a pity, But ...
Trouv?e (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Oh, why should a hen have been run over on West 4th Street in the middle of summer? She was ...
Chemin De Fer (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Alone on the railroad track I walked with pounding heart. The ties were too close together or maybe too far ...
Shit List; Or, Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity (A. R. Ammons Poem)
You'll rejoice at how many kinds of shit there are: gosling shit (which J. Williams said something was as green ...
41. Epistle to John Rankine (Robert Burns Poems)
O ROUGH, rude, ready-witted Rankine, The wale o' cocks for fun an' drinkin! There's mony godly folks are thinkin, Your ...
332. Song-You’re welcome, Willie Stewart (Robert Burns Poems)
Chorus.-You're welcome, Willie Stewart, You're welcome, Willie Stewart, There's ne'er a flower that blooms in May, That's half sae welcome's ...
Hero and Leander (Christopher Marlowe Poems)
It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is over-rul'd by fate. hen two ...
Deaf House Agent (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
That deaf old man With his hand to his ear-- His hand to hi head stood out like a shell, ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Plymouth Rock Joe (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Why are you running so fast hither and thither Chasing midges or butterflies? Some of you are standing solemnly scratching ...
Peter (Marianne Moore Poems)
Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away-- the detached first ...
Spenser’s Ireland (Marianne Moore Poems)
has not altered;-- a place as kind as it is green, the greenest place I've never seen. Every name is ...