The Art Of Preserving Health. Book III (John Armstrong Poems)
EXERCISE.Thro' various toils th' adventurous Muse has past;But half the toil, and more than half, remains.Rude is her Theme, and ...
Tennis Poems (40 Poems)
Antony Villa (Henry Lawson Poems)
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in ...
Just a Love Letter (Henry Cuyler Bunner Poems)
NEW YORK, July 20, 1883.DEAR GIRL:The town goes on as thoughIt thought you still were in it;The gilded cage seems ...
Ode to the end of Summer (Phyllis McGinley Poems)
Summer, adieu Adieu gregarious season.Goodbye, 'revoir, farewell.Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze onForsaken beach and boarded-up hotel.Now wild ...
Picasso’s Promenade (Jacques Prevert Poems)
On a very round plate of real porcelainan apple posesface to face with ita painter of realityvainly tries to paintthe ...
An English Girl (William Schwenck Gilbert Poems)
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,In her magnificent comeliness,Is an English girl of eleven stone two,And five foot ten ...
Peace (Laurence Housman Poems)
June 28th, 1919From the tennis lawn you can hear the guns going, Twenty miles away,Telling the people of the home counties That ...
To a downfallen rose (Gregory Corso Poems)
When I laid aside the verses of Mimnermus,I lived a life of canned heat and raw hands,alone, not far from ...
British India (Henry Jean-Marie Levet Poems)
To Rudyard KiplingThe offices close at four o'clock in Calcutta;In the palace park the tennis court stirs;In Eden Park grinds ...
Cleveland: The Rectal Eye Visions (D A Levy Poems)
"1.WARMING UP THE BOXdelivered on time to persons with city & state line bearing only the words DEATH CITY - ...
Atheletes And Aesthesis (E W Bowling Poems)
It was an Undergraduate, his years were scarce nineteen; Discretion's years and wisdom's teeth he plainly ne'er had seen; For ...
The Coffee Stall Keeper (Billy Bennett Poems)
Have I had this coffee shop long, Sir, dishing out coffee and tea?Ever since Big Ben was a wrist watch ...
The Corpse That Won’t Lie Still (C J Dennis Poems)
Aye, call it murder is ye will! 'Tis not the crime I fear.If his cold curse would but lie still ...
Mr. Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson (Francis Beaumont Poems)
The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring To absent friends (because the self-same thing They know they see, however ...
The Merry Sportsmen (C J Dennis Poems)
'Arry an' me is bits of sports; When the summer comes aroundWe gits our sweaters an' guns an' shorts An' ...
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 ...
The Ides of March A.D. 1896 (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
DEAR BOB, you tell me I must write to you,And write in verse a pleasant recreation;But, O, the pen that ...
Croquet (Alice Guerin Crist Poems)
In a garden where the may made the straggling fences gayAnd the roses cream and scarlet shed their petals on ...
The Cowgirl (Earl Alonzo Brininstool Poems)
She ain't inclined to'rds lots o' thingsThat eastern gals can do up brown;She don't wear jewelry and rings,Like them swell ...
Legs And The Man (C J Dennis Poems)
Alas, my dear, be you high-born, Or just a Sydney cutie,I fear you've earned a he-man's scorn Thro' failing in ...
In Our Square (Dollie Radford Poems)
LAST night again we saw him thereBeneath the plane-tree in the Square,Our student neighbour.He watches every evening nowOur garden tennis, ...
Love-All (Ben Jonson Poems)
The decorously informative churchGuide to Sex suggested that any urgecould well be controlled by playing tennis:and the game provided also ...
Kuokkala (Benedikt Livshits Poems)
Roses in silken bouillon:Opening onto the azure silkA line of cabins on a yellow bed -Shells of Aphrodite.Who wouldn't feel ...
Thick-Headed Thoughts: Part 2 (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
A man is independent of the world,And little recks of strife or angry brawl,If 'gainst a host his banner be ...
Breadfruit (Philip Larkin Poem)
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are, As bribes to teach them how to execute Sixteen ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Sudden Things (Donald Hall Poem)
A storm was coming, that was why it was dark. The wind was blowing the fronds of the palm trees ...
Nostos (Louise Gluck Poem)
There was an apple tree in the yard -- this would have been forty years ago -- behind, only meadows. ...
The Olympic Girl (John Betjeman Poem)
The sort of girl I like to see Smiles down from her great height at me. She stands in strong, ...