The Borough. Letter XIX: The Parish-Clerk (George Crabbe Poems)
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
Poems about inns (21 Poems)
The Borough. Letter V: The Election (George Crabbe Poems)
YES, our Election's past, and we've been free,Somewhat as madmen without keepers be;And such desire of Freedom has been shown,That ...
Twardowski’s (Adam Mickiewicz Poems)
Eating, drinking, smoking, laughter,Reverly and wild to-do -They shake the inn from floor to rafterWith huzzahing and halloo.There Twardowski heads ...
The Other (Edward Thomas Poems)
The forest ended. Glad I wasTo feel the light, and hear the humOf bees, and smell the drying grassAnd the ...
Last Sonnets At Paris (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
I Chins that might serve the new Jerusalem; Streets footsore; minute whisking milliners, Dubbed graceful, but at whom one's eye ...
October (Donald Marquis Poems)
CEASE to call him sad and sober, Merriest of months, October! Patron of the bursting bins, Reveler in wayside inns, ...
Metropolitan (Arthur Rimbaud Poems)
From the indigo straits to Ossian's seas, on pink and orange sands washed by the vinous sky, crystal boulevards have ...
Christmas Welcome (Alice Guerin Crist Poems)
Under the wintry skies,Sundered from home and kin,With patience and love in her eyes,Mary is journeying.The angels keep watch and ...
Not Love Perhaps (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
This is not Love, perhaps, Love that lays down its life, that many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, ...
Ode to West Australia (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Land of Forests, fleas and flies,Blighted hopes and blighted eyes,Art thou hell in earth's disguise,Westralia?Art thou some volcanic blastBy volcanoes ...
Sonnet XCI: Lost On Both Sides (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
As when two men have loved a woman well,Each hating each, through Love's and Death's deceit;Since not for either this ...
The Lights of Cobb & Co. (Henry Lawson Poem)
Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; ...
These are the Signs to Nature’s Inns — (Emily Dickinson Poems)
These are the Signs to Nature's Inns -- Her invitation broad To Whosoever famishing To taste her mystic Bread -- ...
I taste a liquor never brewed (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I taste a liquor never brewed -- From Tankards scooped in Pearl -- Not all the Vats upon the Rhine ...
The Song against Grocers (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
The Secret People (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Phantasmagoria CANTO III ( Scarmoges ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
Not Love Perhaps (A. S. J. Tessimond Poems)
This is not Love, perhaps, Love that lays down its life, that many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, ...
Lover’s Gifts XLVII: The Road Is (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
The road is my wedded companion. She speaks to me under my feet all day, she sings to my dreams ...
Silence (Marianne Moore Poems)
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass ...