The Cremona Violin (Amy Lowell Poem)
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Poems about elephants (29 Poems)
The Big Top (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
The boom and blare of the big brass band is cheering to my heart And I like the smell of ...
Many Inventions (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
'Less you want your toes trod of you'd better get back at once, For the bullocks are walking two by ...
Song of the Indian Maid, from ‘Endymion’ (John Keats Poems)
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?-- To give maiden blushes To the white ...
Endymion: Book II (John Keats Poem)
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Endymion: Book IV (John Keats Poem)
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Hyperion (John Keats Poem)
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
the buddha’s tooth (Rg Gregory Poems)
(for matt - 15) in the first seven years you choose your howdah having by then bare inklings of a ...
Homework (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my dirty Iran I'd throw in my United States, ...
Around the puddle (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The drying puddle of soda almost invisible to the eye like the oasis in the desert the ancient watering hole ...
A Stillness of Body (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In speaking of the herd the behavior of elephants the coming together a moment of stillness not merely of their ...
Sounds of Creation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Crashing waves on a rocky coast, rain falling on parched ground The cry of a newborn baby, the call of ...
Little Aggie (Marriott Edgar Poem)
When Joe Dove took his elephants out on the road He made each one hold fast with his trunk To ...
Television (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
“Mike Teavee…” (Roald Dahl Poem)
The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your ...
On this long storm the Rainbow rose (Emily Dickinson Poem)
On this long storm the Rainbow rose -- On this late Morn -- the Sun -- The clouds -- like ...
The Ships of Yule (Bliss Carman Poem)
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
The Logical Vegetarian (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
Narva and Mored (Thomas Chatterton Poem)
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake Poems)
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
Attack of the Squash People (Marge Piercy Poems)
And thus the people every year in the valley of humid July did sacrifice themselves to the long green phallic ...
Super Samson Simpson (Jack Prelutsky Poems)
I am Super Samson Simpson, I'm superlatively strong, I like to carry elephants, I do it all day long, I ...
Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals (Dorothy Parker Poems)
Love is sharper than stones or sticks; Lone as the sea, and deeper blue; Loud in the night as a ...
Nightfall In The City Of Hyderabad (Sarojini Naidu Poems)
SEE how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat, Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote. See the white ...
Paradise Regained: The Third Book (John Milton Poems)
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Contagion (Spike Milligan Poems)
Elephants are contagious! Be careful how you tread. An Elephant that's been trodden on Should be confined to bed! Leopards ...
Poetry (Marianne Moore Poems)
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect ...
Here’s to the Mice! (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
(Written with the hope that the socialists might yet dethrone Kaiser and Czar.) Here's to the mice that scare the ...
The Tale of the Tiger-Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...