The Nevers of Poetry (Charles Harpur Poems)
Never say aught in verse, or grave or gay,That you in prose would hesitate to say.Never in rhyme pretend to ...
Poems about clowns (21 Poems)
Narcissus (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is ...
The Mendicants (C J Dennis Poems)
Charity, Charity - parson and priest Ever in church and in chapel have taught -"Give ye in charity e'en to ...
The Master (George Essex Evans Poems)
In sea and air, in leaf and stone, Where'er Truth's magic words are writ,Where thousands throng, or rapt and ...
Ye Bards Of England (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
England, cannot thy shores boast bards as great,And hearts as good as ever blest a State?When arts were rude and ...
The Hidden City (C J Dennis Poems)
It was the schooner Desperate That sailed the southern sea,And the skipper had brought his little daughter To our centenary.Blue ...
Nothing At All In the Paper Today (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Nothing at all in the paper today!Only a murder somewhere or other;A girl who has put her child away,Not being ...
A Likely Lad (C J Dennis Poems)
Child of a myriad varied voices calling O'er countless leagues of space in divers tongues,Tho' captious critics view your ways ...
Aunt Evangeline Approves (Incomplete) (C J Dennis Poems)
My Aunt Evangeline has come To visit Melbourne town,Garbed for its Glad Centenary In frill and festal gown.And Aunties says ...
The Lean, Brown Man (C J Dennis Poems)
There's a big, brown man in the hinterland Whom the nation had forgot;He's a stolid man and a patient man ...
‘Ned’ (C J Dennis Poems)
When Ned was a neophyte nobody heeded him. No man could prophesy, none could foretellHow, when the day came that ...
Even As A Child (Eugene O Neill Poems)
Even as a child my face was "gloomy." I found few reasons to smile, none to laugh: father gutting his ...
After The Circus (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
We came away from the tinsel and false,From the rings where we saw the elephants waltz;From the clowns with their ...
FORTUNE OF WAR. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
The Truckers (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
TO BRENDA WILLIAMS ON HER FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY (Barry Tebb Poems)
The years become you as Oxford becomes you, As you became Oxford through the protest years; From Magdalen's grey gargoyles ...
The Fury Of Sunrises (Anne Sexton Poems)
Darkness as black as your eyelid, poketricks of stars, the yellow mouth, the smell of a stranger, dawn coming up, ...
Legends (Carl Sandburg Poems)
CLOWNS DYINGFIVE circus clowns dying this year, morning newspapers told their lives, how each one horizontal in a last gesture ...
The Angel and the Clown (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I saw wild domes and bowers And smoking incense towers And mad exotic flowers In Illinois. Where ragged ditches ran ...