Winona – Famine (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Waziya_ came down from the North-- from the land of perpetual winter.From his frost-covered beard issued forth the sharp-biting, shrill-whistling North-wind;At the ...
Poems about coons (15 Poems)
April (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The April house was near a pond; It was made of reeds and of rushes, All helter-skelter and out of kelter, And ringed ...
My Honey, My Love (Joel Chandler Harris Poems)
Hit's a mighty fur ways up de Far'well Lane, My honey, my love! You may ax Mister Crow, you may ax Mr. ...
De ‘Sprise Pa’ty (James Edwin Campbell Poems)
Bring out my bawnjer, Susan, and Rastus shek de fiah,De coons am all flockin' in, ur Daddy am ur liah.Hyuh's ...
Hunting Song (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
Tek a cool night, good an' cleah, Skiff o' snow upon de groun'; Jes' 'bout fall-time o' de yeah W'en de leaves is ...
Dream Song 107: Three ‘coons come at his garbage. He be cross (John Berryman Poems)
Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross,I figuring porcupine & took Sir pokerunbarring Mr door,& then screen door. ...
Dream Song 2 (John Berryman Poems)
The jane is zoned! no nightspot here, no barthere, no sweet freeway, and no premisesfor business purposes,no loiterers or needers. ...
The Black Watch (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
Ever heard th' black watch story?Ask th' boys o' our old crew;There's sea yarns a sight more gory, But there ...
Plaint Of The Missouri ‘Coon In The Berlin Zoological Gardens (Eugene Field Poems)
Friend, by the way you hump yourself you're from the States, I know, And born in old Mizzourah, where the ...
Rube and “Will”: An Episode Related By Aunt Sheba (Alice Coale Simpers Poems)
He'ah dat ole gray sinnaH's jes brimful o' gas,Singin' dat tomfool dittyAs he goes hobblin' pas'!He betta be prayin' and ...
My Emmaleen (George Ade Poems)
Let de boat swing down de ribber;Ah! swing, ah! swing away! Can't afford to leave mah only,So heah I'm gwine ...
Dream Song 51: Our wounds to time, from all the other times (John Berryman Poem)
Our wounds to time, from all the other times, sea-times slow, the times of galaxies fleeing, the dwarfs' dead times, ...
Dream Song 107: Three ‘coons come at his garbage. He be cross (John Berryman Poems)
Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross, I figuring porcupine & took Sir poker unbarring Mr door, & ...
Dream Song 2: Big Buttons, Cornets: the advance (John Berryman Poem)
The jane is zoned! no nightspot here, no bar there, no sweet freeway, and no premises for business purposes, no ...
Not yet 40, my beard is already white. (Lew Welch Poems)
Not yet 40, my beard is already white. Not yet awake, my eyes are puffy and red, like a child ...