The Sailor (Billy Bennett Poems)
They say a man's known by the company he keepsI think that a lie and a scandal'Cos I've mixed with ...
Poems about jerks (21 Poems)
The Place Where the Old Horse Died (George J Whyte Melville Poems)
In the hollow, by the pollard, where the crop is tall and rank Of the dock-leaf and the nettle growing ...
A Funeral Rhapsody In Memory Of General Bem (Cyprian Kamil Norwid Poems)
Iusiurandum patri datum usqueathanc diem ita servavi... Hannibal I - Why ride away, Shadow, hands broken on the mail, Sparks ...
Thompson’s Lunch Room-Grand Central Station (Amy Lowell Poems)
STUDY IN WHITES Wax-white- Floor, ceiling, walls. Ivory shadows Over the pavement Polished to cream surfaces By constant sweeping. The ...
To A Dancing Doll (Donald Marquis Poems)
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim, You begin your steps demurely -- There's a spirit almost prim In the feet that ...
Idiot (Allen Tate Poems)
The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,The meadow creeps implacable and still;A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.One ...
Portrait Of An Old Woman (Arthur Davison Ficke Poems)
She limps with halting painful pace, Stops, wavers and creeps on again; Peers up with dim and questioning face, ...
Melbourne Sonnets: XIX. Midnight (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
THE wide streets glimmer in gray solitude.A last belated reveller, roistering by,Jerks out a catch, a spasm as to defyNight, ...
Thompson’s Lunch Room — Grand Central Station (Amy Lowell Poems)
Study in Whites Wax-white -- Floor, ceiling, walls. Ivory shadows Over the pavement Polished to cream surfaces By constant sweeping. ...
The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
An Aquarium (Amy Lowell Poem)
Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver -- gold -- Grey-green opaqueness sliding ...
Tractor (Ted Hughes Poem)
The tractor stands frozen - an agony To think of. All night Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering ...
Two Look at Two (Robert Frost Poem)
Love and forgetting might have carried them A little further up the mountain side With night so near, but not ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Sympathetic Portrait Of A Child (William Carlos Williams Poems)
The murderer's little daughter who is barely ten years old jerks her shoulders right and left so as to catch ...
My Bay’nit (Robert William Service Poems)
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
Tortures (Wislawa Szymborska Poems)
Nothing has changed. The body is susceptible to pain, it must eat and breathe air and sleep, it has thin ...
Gignol (Robert William Service Poems)
Addict of Punch and Judy shows I was when I was small; My kiddy laughter, I suppose, Rang louder than ...
In The Beginning (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Ever since those wondrous days of Creation our Lord God sleeps: we are His sleep. And He accepted this in ...
Conversation with Comrade Lenin (Vladimir Mayakovsky Poems)
Awhirl with events, packed with jobs one too many, the day slowly sinks as the night shadows fall. There are ...
To My Valentine (Ogden Nash Poems)
More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, ...