How Beastly The Bourgeois Is (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species-- Presentable, eminently presentable-- shall I make you a present ...
Poems about kicked (31 Poems)
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 ...
The Rhyme of the Three Greybeards (Henry Lawson Poem)
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly (James Joyce Poems)
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
Allegory (Thomas Hood Poem)
I had a gig-horse, and I called him Pleasure Because on Sundays for a little jaunt He was so fast ...
the ordinary again (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) the ordinary you are not interested in me a receiver of food and a giver of shit my brain ...
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 ...
Dying in the Garden (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the moment choosing sin, disobedience a state of grace lost forever dying in the garden suddenly aware of their ...
Kicked Out of Nazareth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Called by the Spirit descending on his life a dove rising from the waters baptized by John Tempted by the ...
A Warning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the instructions for the disciplines the ones he sent out words on the consequence to those who would doubt ...
The Conversazzhony (Eugene Field Poem)
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
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 Grindstone (Robert Frost Poem)
Having a wheel and four legs of its own Has never availed the cumbersome grindstone To get it anywhere that ...
The Fear (Robert Frost Poem)
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their ...
Marksman Sam (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
Goalkeeper Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Joe Dunn were a bobby for football He gave all his time to that sport, He played for the West ...
Tema con Variazioni (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
Theme with Variations (Lewis Carroll Poem)
I never loved a dear Gazelle-- Nor anything that cost me much: High prices profit those who sell, But why ...
Badger (John Clare Poem)
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put ...
Elegy: Walking the Line (Edgar Bowers Poem)
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
To G. M. W. And G. F. W. (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Whenas-(I love that "whenas" word- It shows I am a poet, too,) Q. Horace Flaccus gaily stirred The welkin with ...
Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
The cruelty of P. L. Brown- (He had ten toes as good as mine) Was known to every one in ...
Even Because (Ralph Angel Poem)
Because it all just breaks apart, and the pieces scatter and rearrange without much fanfare or notice. Because you can't ...
Postcards (Margaret Atwood Poem)
I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is ...
The Ballad of Rudolph Reed (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
Rudolph Reed was oaken. His wife was oaken too. And his two good girls and his good little man Oakened ...
Melancholia (Charles Bukowski Poems)
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and ...
There Were Dry Red Days (Sharmagne Leland-St. John Poems)
by Sharmagne Leland-St.John There were dry red days Devoid of clouds Devoid of breeze Sound bruised My burning bones Dirt ...
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 ...
The Booker Washington Trilogy (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...