Transformation & Escape (Gregory Corso Poems)
1I reached heaven and it was syrupy.It was oppressively sweet.Croaking substances stuck to my knees.Of all substances St. Michael was ...
Poems about gentility (15 Poems)
The View From An Attic Window (Howard Nemerov Poems)
Among the high-branching, leafless boughsAbove the roof-peaks of the town,Snowflakes unnumberably come down.I watched out of the attic windowThe laced ...
A Prouder Man Than You (Henry Lawson Poems)
If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine,If you hint of higher breeding by a word ...
A Ballad of Freedom (C J Dennis Poems)
Now Mr. Jeremiah BaneHe owned a warehouse in The Lane,An edifice of goodly size,Where, with keen private enterprise, He sold ...
Sic transit gloria mundi (Emily Dickinson Poems)
3"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee,""Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy!Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" Oh caput ...
Nothing At All In the Paper Today (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Nothing at all in the paper today!Only a murder somewhere or other;A girl who has put her child away,Not being ...
The Vulgar Little Lady (Ann Taylor Poems)
But, mamma, now, said Charlotte, "pray, don't you believe That I'm better than Jenny, my nurse? Only see my red ...
Analytical Chemistry Of Progeny (Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven Poems)
My bawdy spirit is innate - A legacy from my Dada - His crude jest bestowed on me The sparkle ...
If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine, (Henry Lawson Poem)
If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine, If you hint of higher breeding by a ...
No! (Thomas Hood Poem)
No sun--no moon! No morn--no noon! No dawn--no dusk--no proper time of day-- No sky--no earthly view-- No distance looking ...
Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the St (Thomas Hardy Poem)
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
“Sic transit gloria mundi” (Emily Dickinson Poem)
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
The Everlasting Gospel (William Blake Poems)
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
The Vulgar Little Lady (Ann Taylor Poems)
"But, mamma, now, " said Charlotte, "pray, don't you believe That I'm better than Jenny, my nurse? Only see my ...
The Scapegoat (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...