The Borough. Letter XXIV: Schools (George Crabbe Poems)
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
Poems about tradesman (21 Poems)
The Borough. Letter XII: Players (George Crabbe Poems)
These are monarchs none respect,Heroes, yet an humbled crew,Nobles, whom the crowd correct,Wealthy men, whom duns pursue;Beauties shrinking from the ...
The Borough. Letter III: The Vicar–The Curate (George Crabbe Poems)
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
Tale IV (George Crabbe Poems)
PROCRASTINATION.Love will expire--the gay, the happy dreamWill turn to scorn, indiff'rence, or esteem:Some favour'd pairs, in this exchange, are blest,Nor ...
Backwardness of the Present Spring Accounted For, May 5th, 1782 (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
Last Wen'sday, when Jupiter rose to survey The annual return and procession of May, Concluding, the lady with Venus and ...
The Borough. Letter XIV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Life Of Blaney (George Crabbe Poems)
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
‘Paw’ (C J Dennis Poems)
Haw!Ai've just obteened a pension for mai Paw.And you should hev seen the people that were theah. Re-ally, it was ...
Sea Cook (Bill Adams Poems)
There ain't no "Tradesman's Entrance" wrote up above his door,Like you sees on stylish houses on the stylish streets ashore,So's ...
The Shadow (Amy Lowell Poem)
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Every Man Should have a Rifle (Henry Lawson Poem)
So I sit and write and ponder, while the house is deaf and dumb, Seeing visions "over yonder" of the ...
The Poet (Hermann Hesse Poem)
Only on me, the lonely one, The unending stars of the night shine, The stone fountain whispers its magic song, ...
THE WRANGLER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ONE day a shameless and impudent wight Went into a shop full of steel wares bright, Arranged with art upon ...
Never Ordained (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A lesson in the metaphor the body, the work, the worth of each member, lay and clergy equal in ministry, ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
There Is No God, the Wicked Sayeth (Arthur Hugh Clough Poem)
"There is no God," the wicked saith, "And truly it's a blessing, For what He might have done with us ...
THE PARABOLIC BALLAD (Andrei Voznesensky Poems)
My life, like a rocket, makes a parabola flying in darkness, -- no rainbow for traveler. There once lived an ...
The Frog Prince (Anne Sexton Poems)
Frau Doktor, Mama Brundig, take out your contacts, remove your wig. I write for you. I entertain. But frogs come ...
Bat (Anne Sexton Poems)
His awful skin stretched out by some tradesman is like my skin, here between my fingers, a kind of webbing, ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
The Amateur Rider (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Him goin' to ride for us! Him -- with the pants and the eyeglass and all. Amateur! don't he just ...
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, ...