Dick Briggs From Australia (Charles R Thatcher Poems)
(Air-'King of the Cannibal Islands')Dick Briggs a wealthy farmer's sonTo England lately took a runTo see his friends and have ...
Poems about buxom (21 Poems)
A Business Deal (George Ade Poems)
An ancient joker, grizzled and half-bald,With the outward seeming and the attireOf a devout deacon, and yet possessingThe frolicsome nature ...
The Bookmaker’s Daughter 1934 (Billy Bennett Poems)
Nell was a bookmaker's daughter;On the day she was born there was trouble: In addition to Nell came a sister ...
Cap’n Storm-Along (Alfred Noyes Poems)
They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather,—Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!—Sea-lark singing to Golden ...
September (Carlos Wilcox Poems)
The sultry summer past, September comes, Soft twilight of the slow-declining year. All mildness, soothing loneliness, and peace; ...
Dandenong (C J Dennis Poems)
Hard by the gate-way of the East She dips within her market squareWith provender for man and beast, And goods ...
Bacchus Marsh (C J Dennis Poems)
Here she bides, a buxom lady, Blest by peace and great content;Dwelling by her byways shady, Where the elm trees ...
Spring (George Hannibal Temple Poems)
Forth Spring! The vernal breaths of sunny landsO'er earth diffuse. The bursting bud expands,And welcome leaves, lured by the sunlight ...
Drummer Boy (Billy Bennett Poems)
In an estaminet a French dancer one dayDid the can-can for soldiers' enticement;~She was doing her best when some stitches ...
Jennie (Eugene Field Poems)
Some men affect a liking For the prim in face and mind,And some prefer the striking And the loud in ...
A NEW YEAR’S GIFT,SENT TO SIR SIMEON STEWARD (Robert Herrick Poems)
No news of navies burnt at seas; No noise of late spawn'd tittyries; No closet plot or open vent, That ...
Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College (Thomas Gray Poem)
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
The Gascon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I AM always inclined to suspect The best story under the sun As soon as by chance I detect That ...
45. My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment (Robert Burns Poems)
MY girl she's airy, she's buxom and gay; Her breath is as sweet as the blossoms in May; A touch ...
The Princess (part 1) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
On My Wife’s Birth-Day (Christopher Smart Poems)
'Tis Nancy's birth-day--raise your strains, Ye nymphs of the Parnassian plains, And sing with more than usual glee To Nancy, ...
Poem Written At Morning (Wallace Stevens Poems)
A sunny day's complete Poussiniana Divide it from itself. It is this or that And it is not. By metaphor ...
The Confessor, a Sanctified Tale (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
When SUPERSTITION rul'd the land And Priestcraft shackled Reason, At GODSTOW dwelt a goodly band, Grey monks they were, and ...
Paradise Lost: Book 05 (John Milton Poems)
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Paradise Lost: Book 02 (John Milton Poems)
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
L’Allegro (John Milton Poems)
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...