Our Lady of the Mine (Eugene Field Poem)
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
Poems about jaws (34 Poems)
Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun (Eugene Field Poem)
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81 A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York ...
Neighbour Peter’s Mare (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
The Lyon And The Gnat (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
To the still Covert of a Wood About the prime of Day, A Lyon, satiated with Food, With stately Pace, ...
Embrace Noir (Nick Flynn Poem)
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace & grapple a handgun at stomach level between them. ...
Thoughts of Li Po from the World’s End (Tu Fu Poems)
Here at the world's end the cold winds are beginning to blow. What messages have you for me, my master? ...
The Human Face (Paul Eluard Poem)
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Old Deuteronomy (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Turtle, Swan (Mark Doty Poem)
Because the road to our house is a back road, meadowlands punctuated by gravel quarry and lumberyard, there are unexpected ...
She sights a Bird — she chuckles — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
She sights a Bird -- she chuckles -- She flattens -- then she crawls -- She runs without the look ...
New Territory (Geraldine Connolly Poem)
Sent off to boarding school at twelve, with a pair of oxfords, a pair of patents, my sterling silver christening ...
The Mantra-Yoga (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poem)
I How should I seek to make a song for thee When all my music is to moan thy name? ...
The Mantra-Yoga (Aleister Crowley Poem)
I How should I seek to make a song for thee When all my music is to moan thy name? ...
Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen Poem)
(After Lorca) Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where death comes to cry. There's a ...
God lay dead in heaven (Stephen Crane Poem)
God lay dead in heaven; Angels sang the hymn of the end; Purple winds went moaning, Their wings drip-dripping With ...
Fit the Seventh ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Banker's Fate They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
How Doth the Little Crocodile (Lewis Carroll Poem)
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
You Are Old, Father William (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"You are old, Father william," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly ...
Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll Poem)
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, And the ...
Senex (John Betjeman Poem)
Oh would I could subdue the flesh Which sadly troubles me! And then perhaps could view the flesh As though ...
Mouths Of Hippopotami And Some Recent Novels (Ellis Parker Butler Poem)
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended ...
The Lion (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste, He has a big head and a very small waist; But ...
Jim (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion There was a Boy whose name was Jim; ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Darkness (Lord Byron Poem)
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander ...
The Glove (Robert Browning Poem)
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
300. Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland (Robert Burns Poems)
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on, How this new play an' that new sang is comin? Why ...