Cruisers (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Poems about bait (31 Poems)
Venus’ Runaway (Ben Jonson Poems)
Beauties, have ye seen this toy, Called Love, a little boy, Almost naked, wanton, blind; Cruel now, and then as ...
The Flaâneur (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
JOY AND SORROW. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
As a fisher-boy I fared To the black rock in the sea, And, while false gifts I prepared. Listen'd and ...
A Challenge for the Plowman (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A challenge for the plowman thrown down in as in a duel the road now five feet wider To see ...
A Trial before the Righteous (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
For fear, and the love of power the lamb led to the slaughter the judgment upon his head in the ...
Not taking the bait (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Though he was tempted hungry, alone in the desert Jesus stood strong calling on the word of God Not taking ...
The Shore Like the Sea (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the preaching from the water a different fisherman reversing directions changing perspective his words the nets and the land, ...
A Time for Fishing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A change in my thinking not sitting on the shoreline by my nets, mending, cutting bait no longer standing struggling ...
The Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Trying to change the discussion, to force him to agree to admit that torture, any torture, was justified that the ...
Old Friends (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
They meet after months and yet The time melts away And they are back in the swing Ready to banter ...
To Promise Is One Thing To Keep It, Another (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
The Princess Betrothed To The King Of Garba (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Poet As Fisherman (James A. Emanuel Poem)
I fish for words to say what I fish for, half-catch sometimes. I have caught little pan fish flashing sunlight ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Bait (John Donne Poem)
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sand, and crystal ...
Death is like the insect (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Death is like the insect Menacing the tree, Competent to kill it, But decoyed may be. Bait it with the ...
The Aristocrat (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far ...
Bobber (Raymond Carver Poem)
On the Columbia River near Vantage, Washington, we fished for whitefish in the winter months; my dad, Swede- Mr. Lindgren-and ...
A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
Badger (John Clare Poem)
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put ...
A poem, on the rising glory of America (Hugh Henry Brackenridge Poem)
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Britannia’s Pastorals (William Browne Poems)
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
Judgment Day (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate, All souls claims to adjudicate Saying to some souls, "Enter in!" "Go to Hell," ...
Spirit (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
Be still, thou unregenerate part, Disturb no more my settled heart, For I have vow'd (and so will do) Thee ...
The Four Ages of Man (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
The Flesh and the Spirit (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
In secret place where once I stood Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood, I heard two sisters reason on ...
Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
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Part 10 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...