Thick-headed Thoughts: Part 1 (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
I've something of the bull-dog in my breed, The spaniel is developed somewhat less;While life is in me I can ...
Poems about dogged (21 Poems)
The Bulldog Breed (C J Dennis Poems)
It's dogged as does it. They've made it a saying, A motto to hold in that tight little isle --To ...
Success (Berton Braley Poems)
If you want a thing bad enoughTo go out and fight for it,Work day and night for it,Give up your ...
Offa’s Dyke (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Down in the dyke of the ancient folk,Hard by the rampart crowned with oak,My foot sank deep in the drift ...
Sonnet CLXVIII: “If I were able to disclose thy charms” (George Henry Boker Poems)
If I were able to disclose thy charms, And truly paint, as they appear to me, Those latent beauties I ...
A New Year’s Toast (C J Dennis Poems)
Here's to every Aussie fellow,Who refused to show the yellowWhen depression's clammy handCast its shadow o'er the land.Here's to them ...
Hide-And-Go- (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Poems)
Happiness has found me out,Found me out at last!O, she 's dogged me round about;All my hurrying life she 's ...
Blue Funk (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Nameless terror dogged his heel,Little fears loomed large and black,Till his head began to reelAnd his manhood crack.There was no ...
Ribblesdale (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal To, with no tongue ...
Madam And Her Madam (Langston Hughes Poem)
I worked for a woman, She wasn't mean-- But she had a twelve-room House to clean. Had to get breakfast, ...
Life Is Fine (Langston Hughes Poem)
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I ...
Metro North (Mark Doty Poem)
Over the terminal, the arms and chest of the god brightened by snow. Formerly mercury, formerly silver, surface yellowed by ...
The Blood-Red Fourragere (Robert William Service Poems)
What was the blackest sight to me Of all that campaign? A naked woman tied to a tree With jagged ...
The Trail Of Ninety-Eight (Robert William Service Poems)
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
Old Woman (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo From building and battered paving-stone. The headlight scoffs at the mist, And ...
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti Poems)
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
The Other Two (Sylvia Plath Poems)
All summer we moved in a villa brimful of echos, Cool as the pearled interior of a conch. Bells, hooves, ...
Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
A Real Motorcycle (Erin Moure Poems)
Unspeakable. The word that fills up the poem, that the head tries to excise. At 6 a.m., the wet lion. ...
The Will To Win (Berton Braley Poem)
If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it, ...
Life Is Fine (Langston Hughes Poem)
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I ...