The Old-Home Folks (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--The little world these children used to know:--Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of ...
Poems about cookery (17 Poems)
Health (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Of all the blessings which kind heaven bestows,From infancy to life's most lengthened close,The one, far greater than all earthly ...
Noonday Grace (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
MY good old father tucked his head, (His face the color of gingerbread) Over the table my mother had spread, And folded his ...
From A School Anthology (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
1. E. LarionovaE. Larionova. Brunette. A colonel'sand a typist's daughter. Lookedat you like someone studying a clockface.She tried to help ...
Josephine (John O Brien Poems)
The presbytery has gone to pot since this house-keeper came;She's up-to-date and stylish; but the place is not the sameSince ...
Poor Housekeeping (Hattie Howard Poems)
If there is one gift that I prize above others, That tinges with brightness whatever I do, And gives to the sombre ...
A Fowl Affair (Hattie Howard Poems)
I hope I'm not too orthodox To give a joke away, That took me like the chicken-pox And left a debt to pay. Let ...
Aul’ Scotlan’ (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Aul' Scotlan'! lan' o' cakes an' sang,O' gude pease scones an' kebbuck whang,Yer crumpy farls o' ait meal cake,An' barley ...
Bachelors Quest (John Hartley Poems)
She may be dark or may be fair, If beauty she possesses;But she must have abundant hair-- I doat on flowing tresses.Her ...
Something Nasty In The Bookshop (Kingsley Amis Poems)
Between the Gardening and the CookeryComes the brief Poetry shelf;By the Nonesuch Donne, a thin anthologyOffers itself.Critical, and with nothing ...
To A Rebellious Daughter (Fay Inchfawn Poems)
You call authority "a grievous thing."With careless hands you snap the leading string,And, for a frolic (so it seems ...
Those Flapjacks Of Brown’s (Bert Leston Taylor Poems)
OH light as the foam on the Plover, That mottles that magical stream;Oh light as the vows of a ...
The Cook’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
A Culinary Puzzle (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
In our dainty little kitchen, Where my aproned wife is queen Over all the tin-pan people, In a realm exceeding ...
504. Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him (Robert Burns Poem)
NO more of your guests, be they titled or not, And cookery the first in the nation; Who is proof ...
The Lady’s Dressing Room (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia spent in dressing; The goddess from her chamber ...