Retrospect (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Ain't it rum? said Dan one day,Yarning while he worked awayAt his model, all but done,Of the clipper ship Keemun ...
Poems about tacks (21 Poems)
The Yankee Man-of-War (Anonymous Americas Poems)
"'T IS of a gallant Yankee ship that flew the stripes and stars, And the whistling wind from the west-nor'-west ...
Sailor’s Picture Model (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Yonder she sails on her paper sea —Masts just a trifle too tall, maybe —Chain-plates and whiskers, all, in short,That ...
They Made Sails (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
The Crunch (Charles Bukowski Poems)
too much too little too fattoo thinor nobody. laughter ortears haterslovers strangers with faces likethe backs ofthumb tacks armies running ...
Jubilo (Allen Tate Poems)
To Arthur MizenerHit mus be now de Kingdom comiriAnd de year of Jubilo . . .Tail-spinning from the shelves of ...
Jack Marlin (Edwin James Brady Poems)
NOW at the window, side by side, We sit and take our ease, And watch the ebb and flow of ...
Almost Anything (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Superlatively sonorousLike a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin-nails;Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberantLike the quobbing of a foetus five ...
Two Of Them (Ella Fraser Weller Poems)
Where is the little boy Tommy? Not in the parlor with hammer and tacks, Not in the kitchen with sharp ...
A Modern Polypheme (Dollie Radford Poems)
A FLASH of colour through the trees,A step upon the trembling plank,A white sail flapping in the breeze,And then a ...
Prayer (II) (George Herbert Poems)
Of what an easie quick accesse,My blessed Lord, art thou! how suddenly May our requests thine eare ...
Mother to Son (Langston Hughes Poem)
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, ...
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
The Haymakers’ Song (Alfred Austin Poems)
HERE'S to him that grows it, Drink, lads, drink! That lays it in and mows it, Clink, jugs, clink! To ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 5 (Barry Tebb Poems)
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
Sleepers, The. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
The Princess (part 2) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
At break of day the College Portress came: She brought us Academic silks, in hue The lilac, with a silken ...
Rapunzel (Anne Sexton Poems)
A woman who loves a woman is forever young. The mentor and the student feed off each other. Many a ...
Knee Song (Anne Sexton Poems)
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen and yes my darling a dot ...
Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) (Anne Sexton Poems)
Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world ...
Rapunzel (Anne Sexton Poems)
A woman who loves a woman is forever young. The mentor and the student feed off each other. Many a ...