The Jackaw of Rheims (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
Poker Playing Poems (43 Poems)
Jackaw of Rheims, The (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;Many a monk, and many a friar,Many a ...
A Song Concerning The Devil And The Drunkard (Rees Prichard Poems)
FROM the fraudulent fiend, that still without end Most mortals trepans and beguiles,Who wou'd hook us all in, to do ev'ry ...
When The Water Starts To Run (Pat O Cotter Poems)
Along in early spring time, as the sun starts swinging NorthTo linger with the land it loves, and violets peep ...
Bagpipe Music (Louis MacNeice Poems)
It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the ...
A New Girl Up At White’s (Edward George Dyson Poems)
THERE'S a fresh track down the paddockThrough the lightwoods to the creek,And I notice Billy CraddockAnd Maloney do not speak,And ...
Around the Boree Log (John O Brien Poems)
Oh, stick me in the old caboose this night of wind and rain,And let the doves of fancy loose to ...
Ondine (Mary Barnard Poems)
At supper time an ondine's narrow feetmade dark tracks on the hearth.Like the heart of a yellow fruit was the ...
Mrs Polkinghorne (Hal Gye Poems)
Mrs Polkinghorne - I see her yet.For company two cats,Driving her rattling wagonette,Her horses wearing hats. Straight as a poker ...
Dream Song 107: Three ‘coons come at his garbage. He be cross (John Berryman Poems)
Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross,I figuring porcupine & took Sir pokerunbarring Mr door,& then screen door. ...
Irony (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"It is one of Nature's wrongs,"Sneered the Shovel to the Tongs,"To have led your legs so very far astray.""Ah, she ...
Rose of Aberlone (Brainerd Currie Poems)
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Mr. Dana, Of The New York Sun (Eugene Field Poems)
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.His ...
The Spelling Bee At Angels (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMES)Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my knee,And drop them books and first ...
The First Ode Of The First Book Of Horace Imitated. And Addressed To John Miller Esq. Of Batheaston (Christopher Anstey Poems)
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
Your Honeymoon Will Last (George Ade Poems)
I She:When I settle with my hubbyIn our little home, He must not be wild and clubby, He must never ...
The Shooting Of Dan McGrew (Billy Bennett Poems)
A bunch of the boys were whooping it upIn the Malamute Saloon; An American guy from Peckham Rye Was playing ...
Altarwise By Owl-Light (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house The gentleman lay graveward with his furies; Abaddon in the hangnail cracked from ...
A Matter Of Privacy (C J Dennis Poems)
Ben Bowyang spluttered with rage suppressed, "Hi, there!" And his brow was black,As two by two and three by three ...
The Smiling Isle (George Ade Poems)
IWe have no daily papers To tell of Newport capers, No proud four hundred to look down on ordinary folk;No ...
Daylight Saving in Cactus Center (Arthur Chapman Poems)
Down here in Cactus Center we believe in savin' time;Unlike the waste of powder, wastin' daylight is a crime;So we ...
Sammy (Abner Cosens Poems)
Brave Sammy's a fighter, who said he was slow, That Duffeldorf blighter was running his show? The fellow ...
On a fateful day, an unlucky time (Boris Pasternak Poems)
On a fateful day, an unlucky time,Unannounced, it may happen thus:Stifling, blacker still than a monasteryUtter madness descends on us.Bitter ...
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 ...
A Poor Unfortunate (Frank Lebby Stanton Poems)
I His hoss went dead an' his mule went lame; He lost six cows in a poker game; A harricane ...
Sexsmith the Dentist (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
The Rubaiyat Of A Kentuckian (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
Wake for the sun, that scatters into flight, The poker players who have stayed all night; Drives ...
When The Lid Was On (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
They were seated there in silence Each one busy with a frown, It was midnight in the ...
Shovel And Tongs (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
The Poker proposed to the shovelThat they should be man and wife,"I think," said he, "that we could agreeAs we ...
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...