A Tragedy (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
His padding was of sawdust,The little Soldier-manWho loved a light-haired lady Doll—A maiden stuffed with bran.Their little hostess never knewThat ...
Poems about bran (21 Poems)
The Borough. Letter XIX: The Parish-Clerk (George Crabbe Poems)
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
Possum (C J Dennis Poems)
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
Rursery Rhymes (Abner Cosens Poems)
Ten Little Slackers Ten little slackers standing in a line, One went to U. S., then there were ...
The Game (C J Dennis Poems)
Ho! the sky's as blue as blazes an' the sun is shinin' bright, An' the dicky birds is singin' over'ead,An' ...
The Head Of Bran The Blest (George Meredith Poems)
I When the Head of Bran Was firm on British shoulders, God made a man! Cried all beholders. Steel could ...
Bottle-O Benny (C J Dennis Poems)
Chuff! Chuff! Chuff! With a rumble and a rattle, Waking every echo on the old bush road;Waking, too, the wonder ...
The Longing Letter (Daniel Varoujan Poems)
MY mother writes: "My son on pilgrimage, How long beneath a strange moon will you roam?How long a time must ...
Unemployed (Abner Cosens Poems)
I haven't any way, sir, to earn my daily bread; Give me a job, I pray, sir, my children ...
All Dressed Up (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Things is pickin' up as most folks knows,So I sent to town fer to git new clo'es.Some onderwear and a ...
A Fairy Hunt (Francis Ledwidge Poems)
Who would hear the fairy hornCalling all the hounds of FinnMust be in a lark's nest bornWhen the moon is ...
The Rhyme of the Three Greybeards (Henry Lawson Poem)
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Meditations Divine and Moral (Anne Bradstreet Poem)
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
69. Third Epistle to J. Lapraik (Robert Burns Poem)
GUID speed and furder to you, Johnie, Guid health, hale han's, an' weather bonie; Now, when ye're nickin down fu' ...
The Wanderings of Oisin: Book I (William Butler Yeats Poems)
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
The Wanderings of Oisin: Book III (William Butler Yeats Poems)
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
The Battle Of The Bulge (Robert William Service Poems)
This year an ocean trip I took, and as I am a Scot And like to get my money's worth ...
Cartographies of Silence (Adrienne Rich Poems)
1. A conversation begins with a lie. and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the ...