Bridegroom Dick (Herman Melville Poems)
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
Poems about sixty-five (19 Poems)
The Auction Sale (Henry Reed Poems)
Within the great grey flapping tentThe damp crowd stood or stamped about;And some came in, and some went outTo drink ...
An Octopus (Marianne Moore Poems)
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
The Nation’s Loss (Jacob Rhodes Poems)
President Lincoln, he has died,And gone to swell the upper tide;He on the earth will move on more-He's landed on ...
Vale` – Father Pat (John O Brien Poems)
Yes, that's the hardest hand at all upon my frosted head-That telegram that brought the news that Father Pat is ...
Teddo Wells Deceased (John O Brien Poems)
Times I think I'm not the man- Must be some mistake.Me among the also ran? Cute and wideawake!Old and beat and crotchety- Sixty-five, ...
When Underneath the Brown Dead Grass (Henry Kendall Poems)
When underneath the brown dead grass My weary bones are laid,I hope I shall not see the glass At ninety in the ...
Dad (C J Dennis Poems)
I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more;I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war. A ...
Morgan (Edward Harrington Poems)
When Morgan crossed the Murray to Peechelba and doomA sombre silent shadow rode with him through the gloom.The wild things ...
To Portland (Elizabeth Oakes Smith Poems)
To Portland.(From A Centennial Poem)O City of my heart! in dreams, Sweet dreams, I see thee as of yore,And catch ...
Julia Miller (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
We quarreled that morning,For he was sixty-five, and I was thirty,And I was nervous and heavy with the childWhose birth ...
Celia (Alexander Pope Poems)
Celia, we know, is sixty-five,Yet Celia's face is seventeen;Thus winter in her breast must live,While summer in her face is ...
Gunner Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
Carol of Words. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
Hook (James Wright Poems)
I was only a young man In those days. On that evening The cold was so God damned Bitter there ...
Pi (Wislawa Szymborska Poems)
The admirable number pi: three point one four one. All the following digits are also just a start, five nine ...
A Song Of Sixty-Five (Robert William Service Poems)
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one, And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer; ...
My Husbands (Robert William Service Poems)
My first I wed when just sixteen And he was sixty-five. He treated me like any queen The years he ...
Julia Miller (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
We quarreled that morning, For he was sixty-five, and I was thirty, And I was nervous and heavy with the ...