Mason And Slidell: A Yankee Idyll (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLYI love to start out arter night's begun,An' all the chores about the farm ...
Housework Poems (60 Poems)
School (Percy MacKaye Poems)
IOld Hezekiah leaned hard on his hoeAnd squinted long at Eben, his lank son.The silence shrilled with crickets. Day was ...
Feedin’ The Stock (Holman Francis Day Poems)
Hear the chorus in that tie-up, runch, ger- runch, and runch and runch!---There's a row of honest critters! Does me good to ...
Recollections Of “Lalla Rookh” (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WHEN we were farm boys, years ago,I dare not tell how many,When, strange to say, the fairest dayWas often dark ...
How The Babes In The Wood Showed They Couldn’t Be Beaten (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A man of kind and noble mind Was H. Gustavus Hyde. 'Twould be amiss to add to this At present, for he died, In ...
A Story Of The “Barefoot Boy” (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WRITTEN FOR J. G. WHITTIER'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY."I was once a barefoot boy."- J. G. WHITTIER.ON Haverhill's pleasant hills there played,Some ...
How Rumplestilz Held Out In Vain For A Bonus (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
In Germany there lived an earlWho had a charming niece:And never gave the timid girlA single moment's peace!Whatever low and ...
How It Happened (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I got to thinkin' of her--both her parents dead and gone-- And all her sisters married off, and none but her ...
Old Aunt Mary’s (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wasn't it pleasant, O brother mine,In those old days of the lost sunshineOf youth-- when the Saturday's chores were through,And ...
Blighty (Ivor Gurney Poems)
It seemed that it were well to kiss first earthOn landing, having traversed the narrow seas,And grasp so little, tenderly, ...
The Trees (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
I know: to the trees, but not to us,Perfection of the life is given, whole.And on the Earth - the ...
Sing a Song of War-Time (Nina Murdoch Poems)
Sing a Song of War-time,Soldiers marching by,Crowds of people standing,Waving them 'Good-bye',When the crowds are over,Home we go to tea,Bread ...
Autobiographia (G.E. Patterson Poems)
I had everything and luck: Rings of smokeblown for me; sunlight safe inside the leavesof cottonwoods; pure, simple harmoniesof church ...
Sonnet XXVII: Naked You Are As Simple as one of your Hands (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Naked, you are simple as one of your hands,Smooth, earthy, small, transparent, round:You have moonlines, applepathways:Naked, you are slender as ...
The Dragon’s Grandmother (Laura Benet Poems)
Titanic courage nerved this little frameTo grapple fate. Thin, gnome-like, sadly lame,She steers her cockleshell along its wayWith never promise ...
A Day in Autumn (Ronald Stuart Thomas Poems)
It will not always be like this,The air windless, a few lastLeaves adding their decorationTo the trees' shoulders, braiding the ...
The Driver (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"I - At The Post-Office It was a gray, midwinter afternoon.A noisy wind pursued the fine hard flakesOf blinding snow, ...
The Peter-Bird (Eugene Field Poems)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes ...
Aunt Patty’s Thanksgiving (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
Now Cleo, fly round! Father's going to townWith a load o' red russets, to meet Captain Brown;The mortgage is due, ...
Black And White Cargo (Billy Bennett Poems)
Deep in the heart of the jungle, Close to the white man's grave,Where the goldfish have beards that stick out ...
Sausage (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
You may brag about your breakfast foods you eat at break of day,Your crisp, delightful shavings and your stack of ...
We’ve Had A Letter From The Boy (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
We've had a letter from the boy,And oh, the gladness and the joyIt brought to us! We read it o'erI'd ...
When Mother Cooked With Wood (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I do not quarrel with the gas,Our modern range is fine,The ancient stove was doomed to passFrom Time's grim firing ...
Ballad of the Scholar’s Lament (E. E. Cummings Poems)
When I have struggled through three hundred years of Roman history, and hastened o'erSome French play-(though I have my private ...
Another Mouth To Feed (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
We've got another mouth to feed,From out our little store;To satisfy another's needIs now my daily chore.A growing family is ...
Woman Power (A P Herbert Poems)
They took the maid; they took the cook as well:Mamma said 'Splendid! Give the Germans——!The two small daughters did the ...
The Way To Make Friends (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
THE way to make friends is as easyAs breathing the fresh morning air;It isn't an art to be studiedAlone by ...
I think Of Mother (Edna Jacues Poems)
I think of Mother when I seetall chestnut candles on a tree,my Mother always kept a light,for us when we ...
You Ought To Have A Medal, Mrs. More (A P Herbert Poems)
You ought to have a medal, Mrs. More,The medal for the Coupon and the Queue,The Cross for Courage on the ...
Song Of A Second April (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
April this year, not otherwiseThan April of a year ago,Is full of whispers, full of sighs,Of dazzling mud and dingy ...