The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto IV. (Coventry Patmore Poems)
PreludesI The Rose of the World Lo, when the Lord made North and ...
Poems about compensation (21 Poems)
Pete The Parrot And Shakespeare (Donald Marquis Poems)
i got acquainted with a parrot named pete recently who is an interesting bird pete says he used to belong ...
From “The House of a Hundred Lights” (Frederic Ridgely Torrence Poems)
"THE YOUNG LOVERSI SAW them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them ...
Boulogne To Amiens And Paris (3 to 11 P.M.; 3rd Class) (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
Strong extreme speed, that the brain hurries with, Further than trees, and hedges, and green grass Whitened by distance,-further than ...
Ode – 1852 (Epes Sargent Poems)
Not in this green retreatHowever beautiful, while Summer launchesHer odors and soft airs through swaying branches;—Though wild flowers court our ...
The Bane-Setter (David Rorie Poems)
Oor Jock's gude mither's second manAt banes was unco skilly;It cam' by heirskep frae an aunt,Leeb Tod o' Nether Tillie.An' ...
On An Old Muff (Frederick Locker-Lampson Poems)
TIME has a magic wand! What is this meets my hand, Moth-eaten, moldy, and Covered with fluff? Faded, and stiff, ...
Chinese Immigration (Charles R Thatcher Poems)
You doubtless read the papers,And as men of observation,Of course you watch the progressOf Chinese immigration—For thousands of these pigtail ...
Answering The Grumblers (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
When night time comes an' I can go Back to the folks who love me so, An' see 'em smile ...
Beauty’s Blemish (C J Dennis Poems)
You are as young, O lady mine, As ere you were in olden days,Your lips are red, your blue eyes ...
The Dog (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
Light is sufficient to itself — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Light is sufficient to itself -- If Others want to see It can be had on Window Panes Some Hours ...
Cosmopolities without a plea (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Cosmopolities without a plea Alight in every Land The compliments of Paradise From those within my Hand Their dappled Journey ...
Frogmouth biker (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The biker was a menace on the farm, a madman bent on speed, intent on leaving all for dead (it ...
Mortality (John Betjeman Poem)
The first-class brains of a senior civil servant Shiver and shatter and fall As the steering column of his comfortable ...
Among School Children (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn ...
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell (Phillis Wheatley Poems)
Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread, See Sewell number'd with the happy dead. Hail, holy man, arriv'd th' ...
Compensation Pete (Robert William Service Poems)
He used to say: There ain't a doubt Misfortune is a bitter pill, But if you only pry it out ...
Annuitant (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh I am neither rich nor poor, No worker I dispoil; Yet I am glad to be secure From servitude ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Acknowledgement (Major Henry Livingston, Jr. Poems)
With the ladies' permission, most humbly I'd mention How much we're obliged by all their attention; We sink with the ...