Where’s My Billy Goat Gone To? (Henry Clay Work Poems)
'Twas a birthday gift Miss Posie had When she was nine, and twenty:Not of gold — Oh, no! — nor gem, ...
Poems about dynamite (22 Poems)
A Grandson in Hoticeberg (Margaret Danner Poems)
A grandson isnotthe wing-sprouting cherubthat I, as doting grandmotherhave persisted in seeing and showing.A grandson is a hot ice berg.that cannot retain or disdain,with ...
Listen Lord A Prayer (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O Lord, we come this morningKnee-bowed and body-bentBefore Thy throne of grace.O Lord--this morning--Bow our hearts beneath our knees,And our ...
John Sutter (Yvor Winters Poems)
I was the patriarch of the shining land,Of the blond summer and metallic grain;Men vanished at the motion of my ...
If you are old and have the shakes (Roald Dahl Poems)
'If you are old and have the shakes,If all your bones are full of aches,If you can hardly walk at ...
A Man Of Many Parts (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
It was a man of many parts, Who in his coffer mindHad stored the Classics and the Arts And Sciences combined;The purest ...
Self-Portrait (Giorgi Leonidze Poems)
I am a barbarian, a Khazar, a Saracen.Batterer of Roman walls, dynamite's low rumbleAngrier than Rusudan, bowing, not humbled--The ache ...
The Story Of Clarice II (Constance Naden Poems)
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
The Witches’ Brew (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
An Apple Tree In France (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
An apple tree beside the way,Drinking the sunshine day by dayAccording to the Master's plan,Had been a faithful friend to ...
An Error in Creation (C J Dennis Poems)
There was once a man who made a weird machine,Employing dynamite and kerosene. His subsequent destruction ...
Artificer (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets, machines throbbing quicker than the heart, lopped-off heads, silk canvases, ...
Improved Farm Land (Carl Sandburg Poems)
Tall timber stood here once, here on a corn belt farm along the Monon. Here the roots of a half-mile ...
Now There’s A Coon In The Moon (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
There was once an eccentric old coon, Who ate dynamite with a spoon, But when he got ...
The Secret of the Machines (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
Preamble (A Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica) (Jean Cocteau Poem)
...Preamble A rough draft for an ars poetica . . . . . . . Let's get our dreams unstuck ...
Gregory Corso (Gregory Corso Poem)
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
To the Bartholdi Statue (Ambrose Bierce Poem)
O Liberty, God-gifted-- Young and immortal maid-- In your high hand uplifted, The torch declares your trade. Its crimson menace, ...
Listen, Lord: A Prayer (James Weldon Johnson Poems)
O Lord, we come this morning Knee-bowed and body-bent Before Thy throne of grace. O Lord--this morning-- Bow our hearts ...
Bank Robber (Robert William Service Poems)
I much admire, I must admit, The man who robs a Bank; It takes a lot of guts and grit, ...
Artificer (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets, machines throbbing quicker than the heart, lopped-off heads, silk canvases, ...
The Fish (Marianne Moore Poems)
wade through black jade. Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps adjusting the ash-heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured ...