Out Of The East (John Freeman Poems)
When man first walked upright and soberly Reflecting as he paced to and fro,And no more swinging from wide tree to ...
Poems about padding (21 Poems)
A Session With Uncle Sidney (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IONE OF HIS ANIMAL STORIES Now, Tudens, you sit on _this_ knee--and 'scuse It having no side-saddle on;--and, Jeems, You sit on _this_--and ...
The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Inamoratas, with an approbation,Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination.He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a catTawny, reluctant, royal. He is fatAnd fine ...
Evening. By a Tailor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Day hath put on his jacket, and aroundHis burning bosom buttoned it with stars.Here will I lay me on the ...
The Rhyme Of The Pronghorns (Mary Austin Poems)
This is the tale that the howlers tellAt the end of the hunting weather,When the quick rain rillsOn the bare, ...
Prologue to the Princess of Cleves (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Ladies! (I hope there's none behind to hear)I long to whisper something in your ear:A secret, which does much my ...
A Tragedy (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
His padding was of sawdust,The little Soldier-manWho loved a light-haired lady Doll—A maiden stuffed with bran.Their little hostess never knewThat ...
Love’s Ordeal (George MacDonald Poems)
Hear'st thou that sound upon the window pane?Said the youth softly, as outstretched he layWhere for an hour outstretched he ...
Mother’s Glasses (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook, And how we have to hustle round for it ...
The Wolf At The Door (Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Poems)
THERE'S a haunting horror near usThat nothing drives away;Fierce lamping eyes at nightfall,A crouching shade by day;There's a whining at ...
Hold Hard The Ancient Minutes (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month,Under the lank, fourth folly on Glamorgan's hill,As the green blooms ride ...
Barguest (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
All in the wild and windy night I heard the treetops moan,I heard the drift of scurrying leaves ...
The Garden By Moonlight (Amy Lowell Poems)
A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The ...
Name of Horses (Donald Hall Poem)
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood ...
Sweeney Erect (T. S. Eliot Poem)
And the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks Groan with continual surges; and behind ...
Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
On Rabbi Kook’s Street (Yehuda Amichai Poems)
On Rabbi Kook's Street I walk without this good man-- A streiml he wore for prayer A silk top hat ...
Hold Hard, These Ancient Minutes In The Cuckoo’s Month (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month, Under the lank, fourth folly on Glamorgan's hill, As the green ...
Lullaby (Anne Sexton Poems)
It is a summer evening. The yellow moths sag against the locked screens and the faded curtains suck over the ...
Someone Is Harshly Coughing As Before (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Someone is harshly coughing on the next floor, Sudden excitement catching the flesh of his throat: Who is the sick ...
Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SMOKE of autumn is on it all. The streamers loosen and travel. The red west is stopped with a gray ...