The League of Nations (Henry Lawson Poem)
Light on the towns and cities, and peace for evermore! The Big Five met in the world's light as many ...
Poems about disguised (31 Poems)
The Robe of Christ (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Cecil Chesterton) At the foot of the Cross on Calvary Three soldiers sat and diced, And one of them ...
Actors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Plaintiffs and defendants Appellant appellee Pleader, respondent Opposing counsel Judge and jury Actors on the stage Assigned roles Scripted lines ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
The Mandrake (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
Feronde (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
The Death Of A Fly (Russell Edson Poem)
There was once a man who disguised himself as a housefly and went about the neighborhood depositing flyspecks. Well, he ...
Sex With A Famous Poet (Denise Duhamel Poem)
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
The Foolish Fir-Tree (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
The same embrace (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We talked with family last night, not mine or yours specifically but ours, the ones we love familiarly. When little ...
Partisanship and politics (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
Touched my family (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
Does the name toll a bell? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
Insects (John Clare Poem)
These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard, And happy units of a numerous herd Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings, ...
Dark Night (Frank Bidart Poem)
(John of the Cross) In a dark night, when the light burning was the burning of love (fortuitous night, fated, ...
Bride of Abydos, The (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The Bride of Abydos (Lord Byron Poem)
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Argus (Alexander Pope Poems)
When wise Ulysses, from his native coast Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss'd, Arrived at last, poor, ...
The Cinnamon Peeler (Michael Ondaatje Poems)
If I were a cinnamon peeler I would ride your bed And leave the yellow bark dust On your pillow. ...
Lord Robert’s Triumphal Entry into Pretoria (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of June, Lord Roberts entered Pretoria in the afternoon; His ...
Now I am a Plant, a Weed… (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
Now I am a plant, a weed, Bending and swinging On a rocky ledge; And now I am a long ...
For A Thirteenth Birthday (Lisel Mueller Poems)
You have read War and Peace. Now here is Sister Carrie, not up to Tolstoy; still it will second the ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Paradise Lost: Book 10 (John Milton Poems)
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Paradise Lost: Book 03 (John Milton Poems)
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Dedication (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed ...
January 3 (David Lehman Poems)
The shrink says, "Everything depends on how many stuffed animals you had as a boy," and my mother tells me ...
The Steeple-Jack (Marianne Moore Poems)
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
Comus (John Milton Poems)
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...