The Anti-Socialist (C J Dennis Poems)
'Tis morn.An individualistic cockProclaims the fact.The dissipated cat sneaks home forlorn.'Tis time to get up and act!'Tis eight o'clock!The stern ...
Poems about institution (21 Poems)
Crime Is Merely A Disease (George Ade Poems)
The criminal of other daysWas tortured in outlandish ways;Upon the rack they'd break his backOr at the stake they'd burn ...
John Gilbert ( Bushranger) (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
John Gilbert was a bushrangerOf terrible renownFor sticking lots of people upAnd shooting others down.John Gilbert said unto his pals,'Although ...
Old Town Types No. 29 – Miss Trapp, The Music Teacher (C J Dennis Poems)
One-and-two-and-three-and-four --You're playing it by ear, boy! Eyes upon the score! Miss Trapp, the music teacher, very prim and staid, ...
Music Swims Back to Me (Anne Sexton Poems)
Wait Mister. Which way is home?They turned the light outand the dark is moving in the corner.There are no sign ...
Having The Flu And With Nothing Else To Do (Charles Bukowski Poems)
I read a book about John Dos Passos and according tothe book once radical-communistJohn ended up in the Hollywood Hills ...
The Psalter (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
The Impossible Thing (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Remorse — is Memory — awake — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Remorse -- is Memory -- awake -- Her Parties all astir -- A Presence of Departed Acts -- At window ...
Ekka (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
The Ekka institution bares us all, though call it Exhibition, Royal Queensland Show, it's that time of year when you ...
I hear it was Charged against Me. (Walt Whitman Poems)
I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions; But really I am neither for nor ...
Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward (Anne Sexton Poems)
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ...
The Vagaries of Fishes (Judith Skillman Poems)
After they passed beneath us I could tell more would be coming, beneath the sand, under the bejeweled sky, under ...
Music Swims Back To Me (Anne Sexton Poems)
Wait Mister. Which way is home? They turned the light out and the dark is moving in the corner. There ...
Poem With Refrains (Robert Pinsky Poems)
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious ...
The Geebung Polo Club (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub, That they formed an institution called the ...
The Funeral of the Late Ex-Provost Rough, Dundee (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on the 19th of November, Which the friends of the late Ex-Provost Rough ...
The Late Sir John Ogilvy (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Sir John Ogilvy is dead, aged eighty-seven, But I hope his soul is now in heaven; For he was ...
Twelfth Night (David Lehman Poems)
His first infidelity was a mistake, but not as big As her false pregnancy. Later, the boy found out He ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...