The Muses Threnodie: Sixth Muse (Henry Adamson Poems)
As we arrived at our Lady's Steps,Incontinent all men reversed their caps,Bidding us welcome home, and joining hand,They ask from ...
Poems about defunct (16 Poems)
The Believer’s Espousals : Chapter I. (Ralph Erskine Poems)
Preface.Hark, dying mortal, if the Sonnet proveA song of living and immortal love,'Tis then thy grand concern the theme to ...
‘Look at The Clock!’ : Patty Morgan The Milkmaid’s Story (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
FYTTE I.'Look at the Clock!' quoth Winifred Pryce,As she open'd the door to her husband's knock,Then paus'd to give him ...
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) (Samuel Butler Poems)
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
Mercian Hymns (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
IKing of the perennial holly-groves, the riven sandstone: overlord of the M5: architect of the historic rampart and ditch, the ...
The Metaphysical Sectarian (Samuel Butler Poems)
HE was in Logick a great Critick,Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.He could distinguish, and divideA Hair 'twixt South and South-West side:On ...
Prothalamion (Horace Smith Poems)
Nothing so true as what you once let fall,--"To growl at something is the lot of all;Contentment is a gem ...
Letters Of The Unliving (Mina Loy Poems)
The present implies presencethusunauthorized by the presentthese letters are left authorless --have lost all originsince the inscribing handlost life.The harshness ...
Metabole. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
The Calm (C J Dennis Poems)
Brothers, have you observed the calm?Even the leaves of that symbolic palmThat denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirredBy ...
It Was Never Contemplated (C J Dennis Poems)
When old ADAM bit the apple, And thereafter had to grappleWith hard toil to earn ...
this evangelist (E. E. Cummings Poems)
this evangelistbuttons with his big gollywog voicethe kingdomofheaven up behind and crazilyskating thither and hither in filthy sawdustchucks and rollsagainst ...
The Riddle of the Dinosaur (Bert Leston Taylor Poems)
Behold the mighty dinosaur,Famous in prehistoric lore,Not only for his weight and length,But for his intellectual strength.You will observe by ...
Salvage (Amy Clampitt Poem)
Daily the cortege of crumpled defunct cars goes by by the lasagna- layered flatbed truckload: hardtop reverting to tar smudge, ...
Suitcase (Charles Webb Poems)
Its silver clasp looks like a man grasping his hands above his head in victory; the latches, like twin hatchbacks ...
Mingus At The Showplace (William Matthews Poems)
I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen and so I swung into action and wrote a poem and ...