How Deacon Fry Bought A “Duchess.” (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
It sorter skeer'd the neighbours round, For of all the 'tarnal set thet clutchesTheir dollars firm, he wus the boss; An' yet ...
Poems about leeches (21 Poems)
For My People (Margaret Walker Poems)
For my people everywhere singing their slave songsrepeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their bluesand jubilees, praying their prayers ...
Uncle Sam’s Soliloquy (Madge Morris Wagner Poems)
I'm a century old and more to-day-- A ripe old age for a modern man,--Yet they who rocked my cradle, they ...
To Her Royal Highness The Princess Amelia, At Bath (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
O Princess, form'd with every Grace,Fair Offspring of our Brunswick Race,In whom such various Charms are join'd,Beauty, Good--nature, Strength of ...
The Common Man (Julian Tuwim Poems)
When plastered billboards scream with slogans'fight for your country, go to battle'When media's print assaults your senses,'Support our leaders' shrieks ...
Pen And Shears (Morris Rosenfeld Poems)
My tailor's shears I scorned then; I strove for something higher:To edit news--live by the pen-- The pen that shall not tire!The ...
Australian Spring (Hugh McCrae Poems)
The bleak faced Winter, with his braggart winds(Coiled to his scrawny throat in tattered black),Posts down the highway of his ...
Tam And The Leeches (David Rorie Poems)
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
Death Of Archbishop Malachy (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
Late, late, in the October afternoon,The monks sat listening spellbound in the choir;The voice went ringing on, a lovely tune,A ...
A Stave Of Roving Tim (George Meredith Poems)
(ADDRESSED TO CERTAIN FRIENDLY TRAMPS.)IThe wind is East, the wind is West,Blows in and out of haven;The wind that blows ...
The Eygptian Princess (Edwin Arnold Poems)
There was fear and desolation over swarthy Egypt's land,From the holy city of the sun to hot Syen?'s sand;The sistrum ...
Fling Out The Flag (Francis W L Adams Poems)
(For the Australian Labour Federation)FLING out the Flag! Let her flap and rise in the rush of the eager air,With ...
I’ve Been Dreamin’ (Bill Adams Poems)
I've been dreamin',Of a randy, dandy clipper with her tops'ls set,Pitchin' heavy down the westin' with the leeches wet.Bill Newland, ...
A Saint About To Fall (Dylan Thomas Poems)
A saint about to fall,The stained flats of heaven hit and razedTo the kissed kite hems of his shawl,On the ...
La Nuit Blanche (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
Let America Be America Again (Langston Hughes Poem)
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Fame’s Penny-Trumpet (Lewis Carroll Poems)
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
Resolution And Independence (William Wordsworth Poems)
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
Lancelot (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax (Andrew Marvell Poems)
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...