A Story Of The “Barefoot Boy” (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WRITTEN FOR J. G. WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY."I was once a barefoot boy."- J. G. WHITTIER.ON Haverhill's pleasant hills there played,Some ...
Poems about puzzling (21 Poems)
A Farewell To Pope (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
"Hats off" in the crowd. "Present arms" in the line!Let the standards all bow, and the sabres incline —Roll drums, ...
The Inscription, Which Was Lately Found On A Large Marble Pillar Amonst Some Ruins At Whitehall (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
This Monument, consign'd to latest Times,Stands to perpetuate Wolsey's daring Crimes;Who long, by wicked Arts, of Power possess'd,(The Lust of ...
Alaskan Boundary Settlement (Joseph Horatio Chant Poems)
My neighbor's farm and mine lie side by side,And nothing should our mutual trust divide;But they who made th' original ...
To Sanson (08) (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
Life of my life, my soul's best part,I could not live without thee now;And yet this love must break my ...
The Borough. Letter X: Clubs And Social Meetings (George Crabbe Poems)
YOU say you envy in your calm retreatOur social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.In these our parties you are pleased ...
The Borough. Letter VII: Professions–Physic (George Crabbe Poems)
NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn our view,And yield the praise to worth and science due,But this with serious ...
The Child-Mother (George MacDonald Poems)
Heavily slumbered noonday brightUpon the lone field, glory-dight,A burnished grassy sea:The child, in gorgeous golden hours,Through heaven-descended starry flowers,Went walking ...
Bob Cruikshanks (Alexander Anderson Poems)
This is what Bob Cruikshanks said,With a doubtful shake of the head, And an oily hand that began to feelRound ...
Nevada (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
Sphinx, down whose rugged face The sliding centuries their furrows cleave By sun and frost and cloud-burst; scarce ...
The Little Home Paper (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
The little home paper comes to me, As badly printed as it can be; It's ungrammatical, cheap, absurd--Yet, how I ...
George Jones Wonders (C J Dennis Poems)
When I was young, said old George Jones (And rumbling from his bearded lips,His deep voice boomed in measured tones) ...
In everything I seek to grasp… (Boris Pasternak Poems)
In everything I seek to graspThe fundamental:The daily choice, the daily task,The sentimental.To plumb the essence of the past,The first ...
The Rivals (Carolyn Wells Poems)
Two well-built men, neither giant nor dwarf, Were Monsieur Elims and Mynheer Nworf. They lived in a town not far ...
(i) the inkman (Rg Gregory Poem)
whirligig twister dancer prancer st vitus's quester chancer romancer the inkman cometh from that nether world where dream and coincidence ...
Fit the Sixth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Eidólons. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I MET a Seer, Passing the hues and objects of the world, The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense, ...
DIRECTIONS/MISDIRECTIONS (Barry Tebb Poems)
I sit inside the train of tears The station mellow in shade Unoriginal phrases air-brush the canvas. Puzzling minds I ...
Song of Myself (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
I was a Poet! But I did not know it, Neither did my Mother, Nor my Sister nor my Brother. ...
The Whole Soul (Philip Levine Poems)
Is it long as a noodle or fat as an egg? Is it lumpy like a potato or ringed like ...