Old Men Complaining (Padraic Colum Poems)
First Old Man He threw his crutched stick down: there cameInto his face the anger flame,And he spoke viciously of ...
Poems about brasses (21 Poems)
Lydd (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
For the Reunion of the Bates Family at Quincy, August 3, 1916FAR away on the sunny levelsWhere Kent lies drowsing ...
Sailor’s Harbor (Henry Reed Poems)
My thoughts, like sailors becalmed in Cape Town harbor,Await your return, like a favorable wind, or likeNew tackle for the ...
The Bohemians (Ivor Gurney Poems)
Certain people would not clean their buttons,Nor polish buckles after latest fashions,Preferred their hair long, putties comfortable,Barely escaping hanging, indeed ...
Missing (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
Moths (Dorothy Violet Wellesley Poems)
Now with a humming from the greening skies,Sphinx moths with course set true,Shoot forth, torpedoes with a spinning screw,And bulbous ...
Stoke Charity – A Hampshire Placename (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Of all the names of ford and town,Hamlet and bridge and furzy down.That makes sweet music to the earBy troutful ...
John Company’s Ships (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas —The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,Globe and Dragon and Hector too,Thames ...
Work (Edith Nesbit Poems)
WHEN I am busying about,Sewing on buttons, tapes, and strings,Hanging the week's wet washing outOr ironing the children's things,Sweeping and ...
When the French Band Plays (Anonymous Americas Poems)
THERE'S a military band that plays, on Sunday afternoons, In a certain nameless city's quaint old square.It can rouse ...
The Bottom Drawer (Anonymous Americas Poems)
In the best chamber of the house,Shut up in dim, uncertain light,There stood an antique chest of drawers,Of foreign wood, ...
By The Old Pagoda Anchorage [1924] (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
By the old Pagoda Anchorage they lay full fifteen strong,And their spars were like a forest, and their names were ...
A Boy in Church (Robert Graves Poem)
"Gabble-gabble,. brethren,. gabble-gabble!" My window frames forest and heather. I hardly hear the tuneful babble, Not knowing nor much caring ...
View Of The Capitol From The Library Of Congress (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
Moving from left to left, the light is heavy on the Dome, and coarse. One small lunette turns it aside ...
PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY (Barry Tebb Poems)
I Through my bedroom window The coal carts jolted over the cobbles A slow heavy rhythm full, Light and fast ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 3 (Barry Tebb Poems)
THE KINGDOM OF MY HEART 1 The halcyon settled on the Aire of our days Kingfisher-blue it broke my heart ...
The Whistle Of Sandy McGraw (Robert William Service Poems)
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
Victory Stuff (Robert William Service Poems)
What d'ye think, lad; what d'ye think, As the roaring crowds go by? As the banners flare and the brasses ...
Picnic Boat (Carl Sandburg Poems)
SUNDAY night and the park policemen tell each other it is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake ...
Ginza Samba (Robert Pinsky Poems)
A monosyllabic European called Sax Invents a horn, walla whirledy wah, a kind of twisted Brazen clarinet, but with its ...
He fell among Thieves (Sir Henry Newbolt Poems)
'Ye have robb'd,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end, Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead: ...