Growing Up (C J Dennis Poems)
Little Tommy Tadpole began to weep and wail, For little Tommy Tadpole had lost his little tail;And his mother ...
Poems about tommy (21 Poems)
Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
Tommy (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no ...
Oonts (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? It isn't standin' up to charge nor lyin' ...
Gentlmen-Rankers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, ...
Fuzzy-Wuzzy (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Soudan Expeditionary Force) We've fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was ...
The Levelled Churchyard (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O passenger, pray list and catch Our sighs and piteous groans, Half stifled in this jumbled patch Of wrenched memorial ...
Man Listening To Disc (Billy Collins Poem)
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
The Burglar Of Babylon (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
Red Roses (Anne Sexton Poems)
Tommy is three and when he's bad his mother dances with him. She puts on the record, "Red Roses for ...
The Little Piou-Piou (Robert William Service Poems)
(The French "Tommy"). Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau, And some of us slinked in the slum; But ...
Barcelona (Robert William Service Poems)
The night before I left Milan A mob jammed the Cathedral Square, And high the tide of passion ran As ...
Deeply Morbid (Stevie Smith Poems)
Deeply morbid deeply morbid was the girl who typed the letters Always out of office hours running with her social ...
Commandeering (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Our hero was a Tommy with a conscience free from care, And such an open countenance that when he breathed ...
Saltbush Bill, J.P. (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Beyond the land where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange J.P.'s ...
The Bushfire – an Allegory (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
Tommy Corrigan (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace -- Not one in fifty has the ...
A Terre (Wilfred Owen Poems)
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake ...
Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Success to Tommy Atkins, he's a very brave man, And to deny it there's few people can; And to face ...
All In a Family Way (Thomas Moore Poems)
My banks are all furnished with rags, So thick, even Freddy can't thin 'em; I've torn up my old money-bags, ...
Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City (Thomas Lux Poems)
Early germ warfare. The dead hurled this way look like wheels in the sky. Look: there goes Larry the Shoemaker, ...