Oh! Mr. Malthus! (Stephen Leacock Poems)
'Mother, Mother, here comes Malthus,Mother, hold me tight!Look! It's Mr. Malthus, Mother!Hide me out of sight.'This was the cry of ...
Poems about restaurants (20 Poems)
The Bursting of the Boom (Henry Lawson Poems)
The shipping-office clerks are 'short,' the manager is gruff-'They cannot make reductions,' and 'the fares are low enough.'They ship us ...
Seventh Street (Jean Toomer Poems)
Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts,Bootleggers in silken shirts,Ballooned, zooming Cadillacs,Whizzing, whizzing down the street-car tracks.Seventh Street is a bastrad ...
Doing Without (David Ray Poems)
's an interestingcustom, involving such in-visible items as the foodthat's not on the table, the clothesthat are not on the ...
Portrait (John Frederick Nims Poems)
Seeing in crowded restaurants the one you loveYou wave at the door, tall girl in imperious fur,And make for him, ...
Capis Windows (Nick Carbo Poems)
How do you enter that Manilaframe of mind, that wovenmat of noodle house restaurants,that dawn of tapis tasting women,that hankering ...
Discrimination (Kenneth Rexroth Poems)
I don't mind the human race.I've got pretty used to themIn these past twenty-five years.I don't mind if they sit ...
The Weary One (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The weary one, orphanof the masses, the self,the crushed one, the one made of concrete,the one without a country in ...
A War March (C J Dennis Poems)
Ow! Wow! Wow!(Funeral note sustained by flutes, suggesting a long-bodied, short-legged, large-headed dog in anguish.)Ow! Wow!We are the people who ...
Last Sonnets At Paris (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
I Chins that might serve the new Jerusalem; Streets footsore; minute whisking milliners, Dubbed graceful, but at whom one's eye ...
The Seaman’s Hour (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
When the day's trick is over and the running lights are lit,And the rigging fore and aft is trim and ...
Unknown Woman (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok Poems)
Above the restaurants in the eveningsThe sultry air is wild and still,And the decaying breath of springDrives drunken shouting.Above the ...
The Celestial Lover (Aubrey Vincent Beardsley Poems)
The Caf? Strelitz was almost empty. Upon a hot midday in July, Don Juan wandered into the Caf? Strelitz ...
Spring Day (Amy Lowell Poem)
Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The ...
Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight couples ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T. S. Eliot Poem)
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
The Stranger (Aleksandr Blok Poem)
The restaurants on hot spring evenings Lie under a dense and savage air. Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers ...
Santa Fe In Winter (Deborah Ager Poem)
The city is closing for the night. Stores draw their blinds one by one, and it's dark again, save for ...
Freddy (Stevie Smith Poems)
Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy I cannot make anyone understand I love him sub specie aet ernitaties I ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...