Le Rat De Ville Et Le Rat Des Champs (Andre Marie de Chenier Poems)
Un jour le rat des champs, ami du rat de ville, Invita son ami dans son rustique asile. Il ?tait ...
Poems about lard (21 Poems)
Robinson Crusoe’s Story (Charles Edward Carryl Poems)
THE night was thick and hazy When the 'Piccadilly Daisy' Carried down the crew and captain in the ...
The Stringy-Bark (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
I'm a broken-hearted miner, who loves his cup to drain,Which often-times has caused me to lie in frost and rain.Roaming ...
Extinct Monsters (Eugene Field Poems)
Oh, had I lived in the good old days, When the Ichthyosaurus ramped around, ...
To Pompeius Varus (Eugene Field Poems)
Pompey, what fortune gives you back To the friends and the gods who love you?Once more you stand in your ...
The Lips Of Ages (C J Dennis Poems)
Down thro' the ages these same sticksHave played on man their knavish tricks. Down thro' the ages these false lips ...
The Very Image – To Rene Magritte (David Gascoyne Poems)
An image of my grandmotherher head appearing upside-down upon a cloudthe cloud transfixed on the steepleof a deserted railway-stationfar awayAn ...
A Little The Best Of It (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
A LITTLE the best of it,Allus he prayed for,All th' time lookin'Per more than he paid for,Had an idee, that'sWhat ...
Purgatory (Maxine Kumin Poem)
And suppose the darlings get to Mantua, suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin with him, unshaven. Though not, ...
HIS AGE:DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND,MR JOHN WICKES, UNDER THE NAME OFPOSTUMUS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly And leave no sound: nor piety, Or prayers, or vow Can keep the wrinkle ...
HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY (Robert Herrick Poem)
HERE, Here I live with what my board Can with the smallest cost afford; Though ne'er so mean the viands ...
The Morning Baking (Carolyn Forche Poem)
Grandma, come back, I forgot How much lard for these rolls Think you can put yourself in the ground Like ...
The Shark’s Parlor (James Dickey Poems)
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The Obesion (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
Part 9 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
The Vision of Judgment (Lord Byron Poem)
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
They Buy With an Eye to Looks (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THE FINE cloth of your love might be a fabric of Egypt, Something Sinbad, the sailor, took away from robbers, ...
NIGHT (Ruth Padel Poems)
(published on BLINKING EYE, http://www.blinking-eye.co.uk/writer/padel2.html ) Then spoke the thunder, shattering the looming blackness of our national life. The rumble ...
The Sash (Sharon Olds Poems)
The first ones were attached to my dress at the waist, one on either side, right at the point where ...
Making Love To Concrete (Audre Lorde Poems)
An upright abutment in the mouth of the Willis Avenue bridge a beige Honda leaps the divider like a steel ...