Jack Dunn of Nevertire (Henry Lawson Poem)
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
Poems about boss (31 Poems)
The Poet Fears Failure (Erica Jong Poem)
The poet fears failure & so she says "Hold on pen-- what if the critics hate me?" & with that ...
The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama (Andrew Hudgins Poem)
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
Crossing the Frontier (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
The Church-Builder (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
Hard Luck (Edgar Albert Guest Poem)
Ain't no use as I can see In sittin' underneath a tree An' growlin' that your luck is bad, An' ...
The Bench-Legged Fyce (Eugene Field Poem)
Speakin' of dorgs, my bench-legged fyce Hed most o' the virtues, an' nary a vice. Some folks called him Sooner, ...
Picnic-time (Eugene Field Poem)
It's June ag'in, an' in my soul I feel the fillin' joy That's sure to come this time o' year ...
The Housekeeper (Robert Frost Poem)
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
The Code (Robert Frost Poem)
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
Paul’s Wife (Robert Frost Poems)
To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, "How is the ...
Thirty Bob a Week (John Davidson Poem)
I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw, And set the blooming world a-work for me, Like such as ...
Courage is a motherless lamb (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For a small child crossing the pen alone was a courageous feat, occasionally, with a maniacal bleat, the wether would ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Christabel (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Part 5 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Dream Song 10: There were strange gatherings. A vote would come (John Berryman Poem)
There were strange gatherings. A vote would come that would be no vote. There would come a rope. Yes. There ...
Instans Tyrannus (Robert Browning Poem)
I. Of the million or two, more or less, I rule and possess, One man, for some cause undefined, Was ...
By The Fire-Side (Robert Browning Poem)
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Let It Enfold You (Charles Bukowski Poem)
either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when i was a young man I felt these things were dumb,unsophisticated. ...
The House Of Dust: Introduction (Conrad Aiken Poem)
THE HOUSE OF DUST A Symphony BY CONRAD AIKEN To Jessie NOTE . . . Parts of this poem have ...
Cino (Ezra Pound Poems)
Italian Campagna 1309, the open road Bah! I have sung women in three cities, But it is all the same; ...
An Emu Hunt (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
West of Dubbo the west begins The land of leisure and hope and trust, Where the black man stalks with ...
The Bushfire – an Allegory (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
White Cockatoos (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Now the autumn maize is growing, Now the corn-cob fills, Where the Little River flowing Winds among the hills. Over ...
A Disqualified Jockey’s Story (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You see, the thing was this way -- there was me, That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, And Ikey Chambers ...
The Boss of the Admiral Lynch (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day Of President Balmaceda and of how he ...
The Amateur Rider (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Him goin' to ride for us! Him -- with the pants and the eyeglass and all. Amateur! don't he just ...
The New Hieroglyphics (Les Murray Poems)
In the World language, sometimes called Airport Road, a thinks balloon with a gondola under it is a symbol for ...
April 21 (David Lehman Poems)
I'm a very average person, and I think most people are. I vote with the common man. I have two ...