Sweeney (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down, When I came, in search of `copy', to a ...
Poems about preachers (21 Poems)
The Windows (George Herbert Poem)
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word? He is a brittle crazie glasse: Yet in thy temple thou dost ...
Leipzig (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
we say (Rg Gregory Poem)
we say blame the teachers don't we send our young to school to be taught the simple rules for decent ...
No Alms to Give (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like us, sometimes, meager resources They like him, no alms to give Itinerant preachers, lay witnesses to Christ servant savior ...
Ordination (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wow! Can you imagine graduation day just like that! Flames of the Spirit piercing you, giving you power, authority Tongues ...
At the Vietnam War Memorial (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
A Dialogue between Old England and New (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
The Genius Of The Crowd (Charles Bukowski Poem)
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given ...
Cape Breton (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford, the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand with their ...
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing (Margaret Atwood Poem)
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
70. Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math (Robert Burns Poems)
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
Respondez! (Walt Whitman Poems)
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
Lament (Dylan Thomas Poems)
When I was a windy boy and a bit And the black spit of the chapel fold, (Sighed the old ...
Grandad (Robert William Service Poems)
Heaven's mighty sweet, I guess; Ain't no rush to git there: Been a sinner, more or less; Maybe wouldn't fit ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
The Scapegoat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
The Inauguration of the University College (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Good people of Dundee, your voices raise, And to Miss Baxter give great praise; Rejoice and sing and dance with ...
Mrs. Charles Bliss (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him For the sake of the children, And Judge Somers advised him the ...
The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...