For: Kenneth Slessor (Douglas Alexander Stewart Poems)
Hang it all, Slessor, as Pound once said to Browning,Why have you sailed so untimely out on the waterTo vanish ...
Poems about dining (21 Poems)
Ye Agents (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
These agent men! these agent men!We hear the dreaded step again,We see a stranger at the door;And brace ourselves for ...
The Beautiful Squatter (Charles Harpur Poems)
Where the wandering Barwin delighteth the eye,Befringed with the myall and golden-bloomed gorse,Oh a beautiful Squatter came galloping by,With a ...
Country Pubs (C J Dennis Poems)
We know those little country pubs, By cross-road and by creek,Where faithfully the landlord scrubs His counter once a week,And ...
Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening (Amy Lowell Poem)
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
Our Beliefs Diminished (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our law, our beliefs diminished nothing further, nothing more if the ink on the page is the sum of our ...
A Hemlock Bouquet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Destruction of the wind storm, strewn over his driveway, his yard, into the neighbor's yard too but oh so beautiful ...
Struggle (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A bit of war poetry read by featured poets Brought it back to me that night on the floor Each ...
A Saucer holds a Cup (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Saucer holds a Cup In sordid human Life But in a Squirrel's estimate A Saucer hold a Loaf. A ...
I had been hungry, all the Years — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I had been hungry, all the Years -- My Noon had Come -- to dine -- I trembling drew the ...
Little Birds (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Little Birds are dining Warily and well, Hid in mossy cell: Hid, I say, by waiters Gorgeous in their gaiters ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Candle Hat (Billy Collins Poem)
In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates: Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes, Van Gogh ...
The house where I was born (08) (Yves Bonnefoy Poem)
I open my eyes, yes, it's the house where I was born, Exactly as it was and nothing more. The ...
On a Portrait of a Deaf Man (John Betjeman Poem)
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head, The tie, discreetly loud, The loosely fitting shooting clothes, A closely fitting shroud. ...
Loyalty (Edward Taylor Poems)
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
Loyalty (James Tate Poems)
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
The Federal Bus Conductor and the Old Lady (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
The First Surveyor (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'The man who brought the railway through -- our friend the engineer.' They cheer his pluck and enterprise and engineering ...
He fell among Thieves (Sir Henry Newbolt Poems)
'Ye have robb'd,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end, Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead: ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...