The Vagabond (Henry Lawson Poem)
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Poems about gum (31 Poems)
Black Bonnet (Henry Lawson Poem)
A day of seeming innocence, A glorious sun and sky, And, just above my picket fence, Black Bonnet passing by. ...
Flying at Forty (Erica Jong Poem)
You call me courageous, I who grew up gnawing on books, as some kids gnaw on bubble gum, who married ...
The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly (James Joyce Poems)
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
The Alligator Bride (Donald Hall Poem)
The clock of my days winds down. The cat eats sparrows outside my window. Once, she brought me a small ...
To Live Merrily, And To Trust To Good Verses (Robert Herrick Poem)
Now is the time for mirth, Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; For with the flow'ry earth The golden pomp ...
Testimony (Seamus Heaney Poem)
'We were killing pigs when the Yanks arrived. A Tuesday morning, sunlight and gutter-blood Outside the slaughter house. >From the ...
The Hound Who Ate My Sundae (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh man! Nothing Mom and Dad were away; I had such big plans Four kinds of ice cream, scooped, melting ...
Gage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Little man Newly five years old Devil in your blue eyes, Sly smile and infectious laugh Sharing candy with me, ...
The two little skeezucks (Eugene Field Poem)
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
The peter-bird (Eugene Field Poem)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
The Bench-Legged Fyce (Eugene Field Poem)
Speakin' of dorgs, my bench-legged fyce Hed most o' the virtues, an' nary a vice. Some folks called him Sooner, ...
Number 20 (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom of ...
The Pennycandystore Beyond The El (Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem)
The pennycandystore beyond the El is where i first fell in love with unreality Jellybeans glowed in the semi-gloom of ...
The Gum-Gatherer (Robert Frost Poem)
There overtook me and drew me in To his down-hill, early-morning stride, And set me five miles on my road ...
Ape (Russell Edson Poem)
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father, who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers. I've had ...
The ‘Ole in the Ark (Marriott Edgar Poems)
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
The Battle of Hastings (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, As happened in days long gone by, When Duke William became King of ...
Magna Carta (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
Gunner Joe (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you a seafaring story, Of a lad who won honour and fame Wi' Nelson at Battle 'Trafalgar, Joe ...
Albert Down Under (Marriott Edgar Poem)
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
The Pig (Roald Dahl Poem)
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
The Shakespeare Memorial (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten That Shakespeare should be quite forgotten, And therefore got on a Committee With several ...
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 ...
Waiting For The Miracle (Leonard Cohen Poem)
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I ...
Elegy: Walking the Line (Edgar Bowers Poem)
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
The Moon (David Berman Poem)
A web of sewer, pipe, and wire connects each house to the others. In 206 a dog sleeps by the ...
Garden Francies (Robert Browning Poem)
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...
The Laboratory (Robert Browning Poem)
ANCIEN REGIME I Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely, As ...
The Icecream People (Charles Bukowski Poems)
the lady has me temporarily off the bottle and now the pecker stands up better. however, things change overnight-- instead ...