Peter Anderson And Co. (Henry Lawson Poem)
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
Poems about drunkard (26 Poems)
The Man Who Raised Charlestown (Henry Lawson Poem)
They were hanging men in Buckland who would not cheer King George - The parson from his pulpit and the ...
Australian Bards And Bush Reviewers (Henry Lawson Poem)
While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest ...
Meditation On Saviors (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
The Levelled Churchyard (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O passenger, pray list and catch Our sighs and piteous groans, Half stifled in this jumbled patch Of wrenched memorial ...
Uncomfortable Names (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Other names from other scripture bended with the letter to the Colossians revealing a more human picture the man who ...
Other Names (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Amid the name of triumph Of love, of caring, the names of the king Were other names, troubling, incongruous, jarring ...
Summons To Love (William Drummond Poem)
Phoebus, arise! And paint the sable skies With azure, white, and red: Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed That ...
Sonnet VII: Love in a Humour (Michael Drayton Poem)
Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the ...
Holy Sonnet III: O Might Those Sighs And Tears Return Again (John Donne Poem)
O might those sighs and tears return again Into my breast and eyes, which I have spent, That I might ...
A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork (Emily Dickinson Poem)
A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork Without a Revery -- And so encountering a Fly This January Day Jamaicas of ...
The Rose did caper on her cheek (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Rose did caper on her cheek -- Her Bodice rose and fell -- Her pretty speech -- like drunken ...
The Rolling English Road (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Badger (John Clare Poem)
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put ...
TWO LOVERS (Bhaskar Roy Barman Poem)
Bhaskar Roy Barman Once on an evening in a desolate place far from the madding crowds eternal strife I stood ...
THE SEVEN OLD MEN (Charles Baudelaire Poem)
O SWARMING city, city full of dreams, Where in a full day the spectre walks and speaks; Mighty colossus, in ...
The House Of Dust: Part 02: 11: Snow falls. The sky is grey, and sullenly glares (Conrad Aiken Poem)
Snow falls. The sky is grey, and sullenly glares With purple lights in the canyoned street. The fiery sign on ...
The Drowned Man (Alexander Pushkin Poems)
Children running into izba, Calling father, dripping sweat: "Daddy, daddy! come -- there is a Deadman caught inside our net." ...
A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
All hail to Mr Murphy, he is a hero brave, That has crossed the mighty Atlantic wave, For what purpose ...
A Grey Day (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
Grey drizzling mists the moorlands drape, Rain whitens the dead sea, From headland dim to sullen cape Grey sails creep ...
Chase Henry (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
In my life I was the town drunkard; When I died the priest denied me burial In holy ground. The ...
Judge Somers (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
How does it happen, tell me, That I who was the most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke ...
Song on the End of the World (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A Fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump ...
The Drunkard (Philip Levine Poems)
from St. Ambrose He fears the tiger standing in his way. The tiger takes its time, it smiles and growls. ...
Night (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Fair is the wedded reign of Night and Day. Each rules a half of earth with different sway, Exchanging kingdoms, ...