The Kalevala – Rune XLVIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
CAPTURE OF THE FIRE-FISH.Wainamoinen, the enchanter,The eternal wisdom-singer,Long reflected, well considered,How to weave the net of flax-yarn,Weave the fish-net of ...
Poems about bottoms (21 Poems)
The Kalevala – Rune XXVII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE UNWELCOME GUEST.I have brought young Kaukomieli,Brought the Islander and hero,Also known as Lemminkainen,Through the jaws of death and ruin,Through ...
A Lament for the Fairies (Alaric Alexander Watts Poems)
O, ye have lost, Mountains, and moors, and meads, the radiant throng That peopled your green solitudes, and filled The ...
The Ballad of The ‘Bluebell’ (A P Herbert Poems)
(With respectful reference to the admirable exploit of PettyOfficer Alan Baker, of L .B .V. 37)The Bluebell was a lighter, ...
The Wonderful Spring Of San Joaquin (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,Ponce de Leon's Fount of Youth,Wells with bottoms of doubtful ...
Nanawawa’s Lakelet (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Where the dark ash upward towereth,And the maple drops her brown shade,And the rough oak spreads his broad arms,And the ...
Old Town Types No. 13 – Larrikin Luke (C J Dennis Poems)
Luke Gale, the larrikin lad, dwelt in Larrikin Lane, A low street, a by-street, right at the edge of the ...
The Bell Mare (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
She was nothin' much to look at, that there old fleabitten gray.She'd a cranky disposition, but you liked her any ...
The City Bushman (Henry Lawson Poem)
It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, For you sought the greener patches and you travelled ...
Departure (Thomas Hardy Poem)
While the far farewell music thins and fails, And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine - All smalling slowly ...
to the seaside (Rg Gregory Poem)
to the seaside to the seaside to the change and peace of mind to the easy la- zy holiday the ...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T. S. Eliot Poem)
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma ...
Walking Across The Atlantic (Billy Collins Poem)
I wait for the holiday crowd to clear the beach before stepping onto the first wave. Soon I am walking ...
The Errand (Anne Sexton Poems)
I've been going right on, page by page, since we last kissed, two long dolls in a cage, two hunger-mongers ...
They Did Not Expect This (Vernon Scannell Poems)
They did not expect this. Being neither wise nor brave And wearing only the beauty of youth's season They took ...
Ghosts (Anne Sexton Poems)
Some ghosts are women, neither abstract nor pale, their breasts as limp as killed fish. Not witches, but ghosts who ...
Jazz Fantasia (Carl Sandburg Poems)
DRUM on your drums, batter on your banjoes, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen. ...
Balloon Faces (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE BALLOONS hang on wires in the Marigold Gardens. They spot their yellow and gold, they juggle their blue and ...
The Saginaw Song (Theodore Roethke Poems)
In Saginaw, in Saginaw, The wind blows up your feet, When the ladies' guild puts on a feed, There's beans ...
The Duck (Ogden Nash Poems)
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond Of a puddle ...
The Wreck of the Thomas Dryden (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
As I stood upon the sandy beach One morn near Pentland Ferry, I saw a beautiful brigantine, And all her ...