One Hundred and Three (Henry Lawson Poems)
With the frame of a man, and the face of a boy, and a manner strangely wild,And the great, wide, ...
Poems about dribble (21 Poems)
Drought and Doctrine (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Come, take the tenner, doctor . . . yes, I know the bill says "five,"But it ain't as if you'd ...
An Urban Convalescence (James Merrill Poems)
Out for a walk, after a week in bed,I find them tearing up part of my blockAnd, chilled through, dazed ...
The God Who Waits (Leslie Coulson Poems)
The old men in the olden days,Who thought and worked in simple ways,Believed in God and sought His praise.They looked ...
Faces (Lola Ridge Poems)
A late snow beatsWith cold white fists upon the tenements -Hurriedly drawing blinds and shutters,Like tall old slatternsPulling aprons about ...
Time (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
1The ticking-- ticking-- ticking of the clock--!That vexed me so last night--! "For though Time keepsSuch drowsy watch," I moaned, ...
Growing Close (Leonas Letas Poems)
Plain homespun,remember,the days when? But that was grain in the palmthe nearness, warmth and hungerwe heaped!Our trembling lipstestingthe silencein silence. A ...
Learning (Judith Viorst Poems)
I'm learning to say thank you.And I'm learning to say please.And I'm learning to use Kleenex,Not my sweater, when I ...
On Scriblers. (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
IF He's an Author who to PaperSets Pen, and squeezes out some Sense;Then He who just can cut a Caper,A ...
Cackle (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, my brothers do not wrangle. When the sweets of office dangle At a most inviting angle ...
Leah Sublime (Aleister Crowley Poems)
Leah Sublime,Goddess above me!Snake of the slimeAlostrael, love me!Our master, the devilProspers the revel.Tread with your footMy heart til it ...
In these days . . . (Ebenezer Elliott Poems)
In these days, every mother's son or daughter Writes verse, which no one reads except the writer, ...
Fishin’-Hunger (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
BLUE skies mighty temptin', an' the sunbeams coaxin', too,An' my wo'k is gettin' harder ebery day;Ain't a-takin' any int'rest in ...
Whimper Of Sympathy (George Meredith Poems)
Hawk or shrike has done this deedOf downy feathers: rueful sight!Sweet sentimentalist, inviteYour bosom's Power to intercede.So hard it seems ...
Edward Hirsch (Edward Hirsch Poem)
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
Fast Break (Edward Hirsch Poem)
In Memory of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and ...
Sand Castles (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Molded and shaped Specks of the rocks they once were Packed and organized in the buckets Like the seconds of ...
76. To a Mouse (Robert Burns Poems)
WEE, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' ...
To A Mouse (Robert Burns Poems)
On Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie, O what a panic's in ...
Wild Peaches (Elinor Wylie Poems)
1 When the world turns completely upside down You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from ...
Snail Poem (Peter Orlovsky Poems)
Make my grave shape of heart so like a flower be free aired & handsome felt, Grave root pillow, tung ...