The Old-Fashione (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
'Tis a little old house with a squeak in the stairs,And a porch that seems made for just two easy ...
Poems about grandchildren (21 Poems)
The Sowing (Daniel Varoujan Poems)
It's the sower. He is standing tall and stoutIn the sunset's rays which are like flowing gold;Before his feet are ...
The Great Grandfather (Charles Lamb Poems)
My father's grandfather lives still, His age is fourscore years and ten;He looks a monument of time, The agedest of ...
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Above the deep river-canyon. There was a little cataract ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
The Deacon’s Masterpiece Or, The Wonderful “One-Hoss Shay”: A Logical Story (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
BALLAD OF THE BANISHED AND RETURNING COUNT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
When I die I don't care what happens to my body throw ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East ...
PATRICIA (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pray without ceasing Always trust in the Lord Teach the children and grandchildren Rely on God Ignite your faith with ...
Justice Amidst the Process (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hearing her words, her voice anguished, tired, spent, seeking justice, from her view unification with her babies, her grandchildren, caught ...
The Housekeeper (Robert Frost Poem)
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
Snowbirds (Peter Conners Poem)
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
The Old Age Of Queen Maeve (William Butler Yeats Poems)
A certain poet in outlandish clothes Gathered a crowd in some Byzantine lane, Talked1 of his country and its people, ...
UNCLE BOB (Barry Tebb Poems)
Shell-shocked from Korea A grenade that left him The platoon's only survivor, Put him in Stanley Royd For thirty years. ...
INCOMPATABILITIES (Barry Tebb Poems)
For Brenda Williams La lune diminue; divin septembre. Divine September the moon wanes. Pierre Jean Jouve Themes for poems and ...
Christmas Eve (Anne Sexton Poems)
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods-- that present that ...
The Petit Vieux (Robert William Service Poems)
"Sow your wild oats in your youth," so we're always told; But I say with deeper sooth: "Sow them when ...
A Song Of Sixty-Five (Robert William Service Poems)
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one, And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer; ...
The Death of the Queen (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead, And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled, To sing ...
The Death of the Rev. Dr. Wilson (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of January That the late Rev. Dr. Wilson's soul fled ...
The Trap (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
She was taught desire in the street, Not at the angels' feet. By the good no word was said Of ...