The Old Gentleman With The Amber Snuff-Box (Alfred Noyes Poems)
_The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box(A heart-shaped snuff-box with a golden clasp)Stared at the dying fire. "I'd like them ...
Poems about reputation (21 Poems)
The Woman With The Ordinary Past (George Ade Poems)
IThe folks in Section A Who watch a problem play Of the kind C. F. imports for Ethel Barrymore Will ...
Chorus from ‘Mariam’ (Elizabeth Carew Poems)
"'TIS not enough for one that is a wife To keep her spotless from an act of ill; But ...
The Lady (Christine de Pizan Poems)
Come to me, sweetest friend, at the usual hour,do not fail to come, for the gossip mongers wantto attack our ...
To Dylan Thomas (Eli Siegel Poems)
I hope that where you are (I think so, too) People, including literary people, Will see you more as you ...
Retail Market (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Each laden with her marketing and scandal,They held the center of the crowded walk;Our reputation wasn't worth a candleWhen filtered ...
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton (Alan Dugan Poem)
The first and last time I met my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at a protest poetry reading against some anti-constitutional ...
The Lawyers’ Ways (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
I've been list'nin' to them lawyers In the court house up the street, An' I've come to the conclusion That ...
Another barbeque tonight (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It rained throughout the night, a truly welcome sound that eases sleep although we barely slept - we were distressed ...
80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata (Robert Burns Poems)
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
How We Are (Lisa Zaran Poems)
Pale scrapings of people with lipstick ringed glasses and cigarettes burning, and laughter trickling up and down their knotty throats. ...
A Satyre Against Mankind (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I - who to my cost already am One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man - A spirit free ...
Satyr (John Wilmot Poems)
Were I (who to my cost already am One of those strange prodigious Creatures Man) A Spirit free, to choose ...
LETTER FROM LEEDS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Would 'any woman' find me difficult to live with? My tastes are simple: space for several thousand books, The smoke ...
All the World’s a Stage (William Shakespeare Poems)
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Investigating Flora (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
Dialogue (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
Children Pray dearest mother if you please Cut up your double-curded cheese, The oldest of the brotherhood. It's ripe, no ...
The Road to Success is Always Under Construction (Poem)
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...