Song of the Guitar. (Bai JuYi Poems)
In the tenth year of Yuanhe I was banished and demoted to be assistant official in Jiujiang. In the summer ...
Poems about boarded (21 Poems)
How We Took The Great Galleon (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
They Made Sails (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
In the old raftered loftWhere the winds blowLike thin querulous voicesOut of long ago,And the cobwebs swayTo and fro, to ...
Hannah Armstrong (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sakeTo discharge my sick boy from the army;But maybe he ...
For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell Poem)
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
The Hermit (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
The Self-Seeker (Robert Frost Poem)
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
The End Of March (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
For John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read: Duxbury It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk ...
MORNINGS LIKE THIS (Barry Tebb Poems)
Mornings like this I awaken and wonder How I have moved so far, how I have moved so little And ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 1 (Barry Tebb Poems)
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 2 (Barry Tebb Poems)
STANDING IN EDEN 1 Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach Before I was born I answered her cry For ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 5 (Barry Tebb Poems)
MOORING POSTS 1 The mooring posts marked on the South Leeds map Of 1908 still line the Aire's side, huge, ...
The Frog Prince (Anne Sexton Poems)
Frau Doktor, Mama Brundig, take out your contacts, remove your wig. I write for you. I entertain. But frogs come ...
The Bells (Anne Sexton Poems)
Today the circus poster is scabbing off the concrete wall and the children have forgotten if they knew at all. ...
The Exorcists (Anne Sexton Poems)
And I solemnly swear on the chill of secrecy that I know you not, this room never, the swollen dress ...
Metaphors (Sylvia Plath Poems)
I'm a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ...
Captain Teach alias Black Beard (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port On board a privateer, in search of sport, ...
A Ballad of John Silver (John Masefield Poems)
We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull, And we flew the pretty colours of the crossbones ...
Hannah Armstrong (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sake To discharge my sick boy from the army; But ...