Woe! to the just occasion that compels (Christopher Anstey Poems)
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Poems about distressing (21 Poems)
To Count Carlo Pepoli (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
This wearisome and this distressing sleep That we call life, O how dost thou support, My Pepoli? With what hopes ...
The Vulture (Parody of Poe’s “Raven”) (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Once upon a midnight chilling, as I held my feet unwillingO'er a tub of scalding water, at a heat of ...
The Convalescent Gripster (Eugene Field Poems)
The gods let slip that fiendish grip Upon me last week Sunday--No fiercer storm than racked my form ...
Enigma XXXIX. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
WHAT teacher of Israel shuns the broad light,The first feeble dawnings of faith to conceal,And, fearful of men, seeks the ...
To A Thesaurus (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
O precious codex, volume, tome, Book, writing, compilation, workAttend the while I pen a pome, A jest, a jape, a ...
A Christmas Greeting (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Here's to you, little mother,With your boy so far away;May the joy of service smotherAll your grief this Christmas day;May ...
Stuck (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I'm up against it day by day,My ignorance is distressing;The things I don't know on the wayI'm busily confessing.Time was ...
Limerick:There was an Old Person of Burton (Edward Lear Poems)
There was an Old Person of Burton,Whose answers were rather uncertain;When they said, 'How d'ye do?'He replied, 'Who are you?'That ...
The Post That Fitted (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my ...
Merry Autumn (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
It's all a farce,-these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the ...
Baby waits alone (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Baby waits alone in sandy shallows lying, - wretchedly crying Dam marooned at sea aware her calf is dying precious ...
Almost taste the flavour (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
It was a fat-tyred 4WD utility hard back, the sort of ute you'd expect a contractor to drive, except it ...
212. Song-Raving Winds Around her Blowing (Robert Burns Poem)
RAVING winds around her blowing, Yellow leaves the woodlands strowing, By a river hoarsely roaring, Isabella stray'd deploring- "Farewell, hours ...
Hymn 125 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Christ's compassion to the weak and tempted. Heb. 4:15,16; 5:7; Matt. 12:20. With joy we meditate the grace Of our ...
Hymn 129 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Submission and deliverance; or, Abraham offering up his son. Gen. 22:6, etc. Saints, at your heav'nly Father's word Give up ...
Psalm 143 (Isaac Watts Poems)
Complaint of heavy afflictions in mind and body. My righteous Judge, my gracious God, Hear when I spread my hands ...
Psalm 27 part 2 (Isaac Watts Poems)
v.8,9,13,14 C. M. Prayer and hope. Soon as I heard my Father say, "Ye children, seek my grace," My heart ...
A Tale of the Sea (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
The Clepington Catastrophe (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...