A Rainy Day (Hattie Howard Poems)
Oh, what a blessed interval A rainy day may be! No lightning flash nor tempest roar, But one incessant, steady pour Of dripping melody; When ...
Poems about cranks (21 Poems)
The Sunday Rail: I (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires!To the rail, to the rail, now the pent up desiresOf the ...
Prologue To A Charade.–“Damn-Ages” (Horace Smith Poems)
In olden time--in great Eliza's age,When rare Ben Jonson ruled the humorous stage,No play without its Prologue might appearTo earn ...
Let Us Give Thanks (Hattie Howard Poems)
If we have lived another year And, counting friends by regiments Who share our love and confidence, Find no more broken ranks, For this ...
The Island (George Woodcock Poems)
The oars fell from our hands. We climbed the darkSlopes of kelp to the stairway up the rock.Scott went first, ...
A Bad Break (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
The preacher quoted, and the cranksAmong his congregation smiled,'How sharper than a serpent's thanksIt is to have a toothless child.'He ...
A Manchester Poem (George MacDonald Poems)
'Tis a poor drizzly morning, dark and sad.The cloud has fallen, and filled with fold on foldThe chimneyed city; and ...
Bob Cruikshanks (Alexander Anderson Poems)
This is what Bob Cruikshanks said,With a doubtful shake of the head, And an oily hand that began to feelRound ...
My Old House (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
I LIV'D in an old house, you ne'er saw one older, The wind whistled loud when the winter set in; ...
The Tavern Of Despair (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE wraiths of murdered hopes and loves Come whispering at the door, Come creeping through the weeping mist That drapes ...
The Old Cow Man (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
I rode across a valley rangeI hadn't seen for years.The trail was all so spoilt and strangeIt nearly fetched the ...
Rubber-Stamp Humour (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
If couples mated but for love; If women all were perfect cooks; If Hoosier authors wrote no books; ...
Second Guard (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
You are sleepin' in your hot roll when some body kicks your tarp.When you roll out of your blankets why ...
The Dreamer (David MacDonald Ross Poems)
WHO seeks the shore where dreams outpour Their floods in Slumber Seas Lives all night long within a song ...
On The Fly-Leaf Of Pound’s Cantos (Basil Bunting Poems)
There are the Alps. What is there to say about them?They don't make sense. Fatal glaciers, crags cranks climb,jumbled boulder ...
The King (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
Stamp Collector (Robert William Service Poems)
My worldly wealth I hoard in albums three, My life collection of rare postage stamps; My room is cold and ...
Intolerance (Robert William Service Poems)
I have no brief for gambling, nay The notion I express That money earned 's the only way To pay ...
The Witch Of Atlas (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
from Venus and Adonis (William Shakespeare Poems)
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis' trampling courser doth ...
L’Allegro (John Milton Poems)
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...