“The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still” (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
The rank stench of those bodies haunts me stillAnd I remember things I'd best forget.For now we've marched to a ...
Poems about gulping (21 Poems)
Goldfish (Harold Monro Poems)
They are the angels of that watery world,With so much knowledge that they just aspireTo move themselves on golden fins,Or ...
Amours De Voyage, Canto II (Arthur Hugh Clough Poems)
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
The Last Crew (DuBose Heyward Poems)
I Spring found us early that eventful year, Seeming to know in her clairvoyant way The bitterness ...
The Colonel’s Story (Cale Young Rice Poems)
No, no, my friend; there is an agony Not to be exorcised out of the world By any ...
Fish (D H Lawrence Poems)
FISH, oh Fish,So little matters!Whether the waters rise and cover the earthOr whether the waters wilt in the hollow places,All ...
The Vulture (Parody of Poe’s “Raven”) (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Once upon a midnight chilling, as I held my feet unwillingO'er a tub of scalding water, at a heat of ...
Cooney Potter (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I inherited forty acres from my FatherAnd, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughtersFrom dawn to dusk, ...
The Trip To The Mental Hospital (II) (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
A little girl crouches with her little brotherNext to an overturned barrel of water.In rags, a beast of a person ...
To a Fish (James Henry Leigh Hunt Poem)
You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced, Dreary-mouthed, gaping wretches of the sea, Gulping salt-water everlastingly, Cold-blooded, though with red your blood be ...
Morning Coffee (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Reading the menu at the morning service: - Iced Venusberg perhaps, or buttered bum - Orders the usual sex-ersatz, and, ...
An Old Twenty-Third Man (Robert Graves Poem)
"Is that the Three-and-Twentieth, Strabo mine, Marching below, and we still gulping wine?" From the sad magic of his fragrant ...
Fluff and Fold (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Racing to her meeting gulping down dinner racing to the door but she ran to the little room To catch ...
One Step Backward Taken (Robert Frost Poem)
Not only sands and gravels Were once more on their travels, But gulping muddy gallons Great boulders off their balance ...
40,000 (Charles Bukowski Poems)
at the track today, Father's Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a little surprise. ...
A Child’s Christmas In Wales (Dylan Thomas Poems)
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
My Feud (Robert William Service Poems)
I hate my neighbour Widow Green; I'd like to claw her face; But if I did she'd make a scene ...
Window Shopper (Robert William Service Poems)
I stood before a candy shop Which with a Christmas radiance shone; I saw my parents pass and stop To ...
Base Details (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base, And speed ...
Cooney Potter (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I inherited forty acres from my Father And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters From dawn ...
Lui Et Elle (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
She is large and matronly And rather dirty, A little sardonic-looking, as if domesticity had driven her to it. Though ...