Telephones Poems (187 Poems)

Motherhood, 1951 (Ai Ogawa Poems)

Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy,Or maybe it's Pegeen to you,Well, I'm really Stella Mae.Peggy's my nickname,But anyway, will you ...

England and America (James Kenneth Stephen Poems)

. ON A RHINE STEAMER.    Republic of the West,     Enlightened, free, sublime,   Unquestionably best    Production of our time.   The telephone is thine,    And thine the Pullman Car,   The caucus, the divine    Intense electric star.   To thee we likewise owe   The venerable names  Of Edgar Allan Poe,   And Mr. Henry James.  In short it's due to thee,   Thou kind of Western star,  That we have come to be   Precisely what we are.  But every now and then,   It cannot be denied,  You breed a kind of men   Who are not dignified,  Or courteous or refined,   Benevolent or wise,  Or gifted with a mind   Beyond the common size,  Or notable for tact,   Agreeable to me,  Or anything, in fact,   That people ought to be.     2. ON A PARISIAN BOULEVARD.   Britannia rules the waves,    As I have heard her say;   She frees whatever slaves    She meets upon her way.   A teeming mother she    Of Parliaments and Laws;   Majestic, mighty, free:    Devoid of common flaws.   For here did Shakspere write   His admirable plays:  For her did Nelson fight   And Wolseley win his bays.  Her sturdy common sense   Is based on solid grounds:  By saving numerous pence   She spends effective pounds.  The Saxon and the Celt   She equitably rules;  Her iron rod is felt   By countless knaves and fools.  In fact, mankind at large,   Black, yellow, white and red,  Is given to her in charge,   And owns her as a head.  But every here and there—   Deny it if you can—  She breeds a vacant stare   Unworthy of a man:  A look of dull surprise;   A nerveless idle hand:  An eye which never tries   To threaten or command:  In short, a kind of man,   If man indeed he be,  As worthy of our ban   As any that we see:  Unspeakably obtuse,   Abominably vain,  Of very little use,   And execrably plain. (James Kenneth Stephen)

The Hotel (Harriet Monroe Poems)

The long resounding marble corridors, theshining parlors with shining women inthem.The French room, with its gilt and garlandsunder plump little ...

Sun And Moon (Jane Kenyon Poems)

For Donald ClarkDrugged and drowsy but not asleepI heard my blind roommate's daughterhelping her with her meal:"What's that? Squash?""No. It's ...

Rotary (Christina Pugh Poems)

Closer to a bell than a bird,that clapper ringingthe clear nameof its inventor:by turns louderand quieter than a clock,its numbered ...

Exorcism (Robert Friend Poems)

I know who's scratching at the door.Clock, there's no use yawning.More than boards are loose in the floor-I wasn't born ...

Possessions (Ken Smith Poems)

They spent my life plotting against me.With nothing to do but cultivate themselves,but to be there, aligning their shadows,they were ...

Biography (Pierre Martory Poems)

After several fruitless attemptsContact was established between the world and meI felt a deep enough reliefFor the solitude and the ...

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