Fit The Second – The Bellman’s Speech (Lewis Carroll Poems)
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!Such solemnity, too! One could ...
Poems about conventional (21 Poems)
Home. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
The Men Who Made Bad Matches (Henry Lawson Poems)
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
Evangelist (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Say prickly pears had roots which found out water,had branches bursting out in sulphur flame.Wanderers traipsing from a cracked sierramunched ...
The Bohemian (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Bring me the livery of no other man. I am my own to robe me at my pleasure. Accepted rules to me ...
Five Critcisms (Alfred Noyes Poems)
I.(_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed,Weds Columbine, ...
Interim (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
The room is full of you!—As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
The Centennial Year (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
A Ballad for Elderly Kids (C J Dennis Poems)
Now this is the ballad of Jeremy Jones, And likewise of Bobadil Brown,Of the Snooks and the Snaggers and Macs ...
A Plan (Donald Marquis Poems)
YOUTH is the season of revolt; at twenty-fiveWe curse the reigning politicians,Wondering that any man aliveStands for such damnable conditions.Whatever ...
A Countrywoman of Mine (Elaine Goodale Eastman Poems)
"Handsome? I hardly know. Her profile 's fine- Delightful, intellectual, aquiline. Her keen eyes light it; keen, yet often kind; ...
The Lesson Of The Moth (Donald Marquis Poems)
i was talking to a moththe other eveninghe was trying to break intoan electric light bulband fry himself on the ...
Wellington (Charles Harpur Poems)
Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...
How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
How thought you that this thing could captivate? What are those graces that could make her dear, Who ...
Pattern (Edith Mirick Poems)
Her faith had been cut by a cold,Conventional pattern. Now, grown old,She seeks in vain to fitHer outworn pattern to ...
The Logical Vegetarian (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
Fit the Second ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Under Ben Bulben (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set ...
How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
How thought you that this thing could captivate? What are those graces that could make her dear, Who is not ...
Interim (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...