When Your Pants Begin to Go (Henry Lawson Poem)
When you wear a cloudy collar and a shirt that isn't white, And you cannot sleep for thinking how you'll ...
Poems about applaud (24 Poems)
ON THE Dutchess of Grafton Under the Name of Alinda. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
A SONG. I. TH'ambitious Eye that seeks alone, Where Beauties Wonders most are shown; Of all that bounteous Heaven displays, ...
The Speakers (Weldon Kees Poem)
"A equals X," says Mister One. "A equals B," says Mister Two. "A equals nothing under the sun But A," ...
To The Painter Of An Ill-drawn Picture of Cleone (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Sooner I'd praise a Cloud which Light beguiles, Than thy rash Hand which robs this Face of Smiles; And does ...
Celestial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Sonnet XLIX: Thou Leaden Brain (Michael Drayton Poem)
Thou leaden brain, which censur'st what I write, And say'st my lines be dull and do not move, I marvel ...
Alexander’s Feast; Or, The Power Of Music (John Dryden Poems)
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
You’ve seen Balloons set — Haven’t You? (Emily Dickinson Poems)
You've seen Balloons set -- Haven't You? So stately they ascend -- It is as Swans -- discarded You, For ...
Like Mighty Foot Lights — burned the Red (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Like Mighty Foot Lights -- burned the Red At Bases of the Trees -- The far Theatricals of Day Exhibiting ...
His Mansion in the Pool (Emily Dickinson Poem)
His Mansion in the Pool The Frog forsakes -- He rises on a Log And statements makes -- His Auditors ...
Ekka (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The Ekka institution bares us all, though call it Exhibition, Royal Queensland Show, it's that time of year when you ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Growing Old (Matthew Arnold Poem)
What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? ...
157. Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh (Robert Burns Poems)
WHEN, by a generous Public's kind acclaim, That dearest meed is granted-honest fame; Waen here your favour is the actor's ...
This (Charles Bukowski Poems)
self-congratulatory nonsense as the famous gather to applaud their seeming greatness you wonder where the real ones are what giant ...
An Evangelist’s Wife (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
"Why am I not myself these many days, You ask? And have you nothing more to ask? I do you ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Love Is A Parallax (Sylvia Plath Poems)
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
Richard Pigott, the Forger (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Richard Pigott, the forger, was a very bad man, And to gainsay it there's nobody can, Because for fifty years ...
A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. (Andrew Marvell Poems)
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...
The Death of Cromwell (Andrew Marvell Poems)
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Cruelty and Love (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
What large, dark hands are those at the window Lifted, grasping in the yellow light Which makes its way through ...