Breitmann As An Uhlan. IV. Breitmann Take’s The Town Of Nancy. (Charles Godfrey Leland Poems)
O HEAR a wondrous shdory Vot soundet like romance, How Breitmann mit four Uhlans Vas dake de town of Nantz. ...
Poems about slang (21 Poems)
In New Orleans (Eugene Field Poems)
'Twas in the Crescent City not long ago befellThe tear-compelling incident I now propose to tell;So come, my sweet collector ...
A Fair Spin (C J Dennis Poems)
Righto!I'll give the game a go.They say I should be circumspect; but I don't care a hang.I'll bangThe cows in ...
A Dog’s Mistake [In Doggerel Verse] (A B Banjo Paterson Poems)
He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide,He was just a wand'ring mongrel from the ...
Journalism in Cactus Center (Arthur Chapman Poems)
Down here in Cactus Center we ain't much on splittin' hairs;In the fancy shades of language we are puttin' on ...
Literary Jealousy (Donald Marquis Poems)
dear boss i dont seewhy you keep that ugly boston bull terrier petehanging aroundeating his head offin these hard timeshe ...
Sling It! (C J Dennis Poems)
Blimey! Ain't it gittin' tough? Life gits 'arder day by day.First a bloke ain't got enough Words for wot 'e ...
Rune of the Finland Woman (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
For Sára Karig "You are so wise," the reindeer said, "you can bind the winds of the world in a ...
Villon’s Straight Tip to All Cross Coves (William Ernest Henley Poems)
"Tout aux tavernes et aux filles." Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack? Or fake the broads? or fig a nag? ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Melancholetta (Lewis Carroll Poem)
With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong Such ...
Nostalgia (Billy Collins Poem)
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
The Interrogation Of The Man Of Many Hearts (Anne Sexton Poems)
Who's she, that one in your arms? She's the one I carried my bones to and built a house that ...
Profane Poet (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh how it would enable me To titillate my vanity If you should choose to label me A Poet of ...
Smoke and Steel (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
Yes, the Dead Speak to Us (Carl Sandburg Poems)
YES, the Dead speak to us. This town belongs to the Dead, to the Dead and to the Wilderness. Back ...
Flanders (Carl Sandburg Poems)
FLANDERS, the name of a place, a country of people, Spells itself with letters, is written in books. "Where is ...
Prairie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
Mulligan’s Mare (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; The ...
You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop (Marge Piercy Poems)
You ask why sometimes I say stop why sometimes I cry no while I shake with pleasure. What do I ...
A Dog’s Mistake (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide, He was just a wand'ring mongrel from ...