Visitin’ A Friend At The Cold Shop (Miguel Pinero Poems)
In the place of business luncheswhere a dull sun rises to blind yourtoothpaste brushed eyelids with itsred veins blowin' tracks ...
Poems about lottery (21 Poems)
Post-Letters (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
Lottery tickets every day,-- And ever drawn a blank:Yet none the less we pant and pray For prizes in that bank:Morn by ...
To Get A Man (Hector MacNeill Poems)
This warld is a lottery, as ilk ane may ken;There are prizes for women as weel as for men:But as ...
The Convict And The Pauper (A Ballad For Home Governors). (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
O give no more to flagrant Wrong The chances you refuse to Right,Nor let a boon to Vice belong Wherein the virtuous ...
Grounds For Divorce. (George Pope Morris Poems)
He.What can a man do when a woman's perverse,And determined to have her own way? She.At the altar you took me ...
In the Next Street (Ken Smith Poems)
there's only ever one argument: his,bawling out whoever punctuatesthe brief intervals his cussinginterrupts, something unheard, reason perhaps.What you never get ...
Tale XIV (George Crabbe Poems)
THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE.A serious Toyman in the city dwelt,Who much concern for his religion felt;Reading, he changed his tenets, ...
The Summary of Wisedome (Edward Benlowes Poems)
Worldlings we court not, envy not, nor fear; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear: While Sinners split on shelves, ...
To The Right Hon. Mr. Dodington (Edward Young Poems)
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
The Borough. Letter VII: Professions–Physic (George Crabbe Poems)
NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn our view,And yield the praise to worth and science due,But this with serious ...
Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe;Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! Bearing ...
Bumboats (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
I've had a whirl at games of chance From Bombay 'round to Cork,I've sensed the ways of high finance ...
Further Language From Truthful James (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
(NYE'S FORD, STANISLAUS, 1870)Do I sleep? do I dream?Do I wonder and doubt?Are things what they seem?Or is visions about?Is ...
Against Hope (Abraham Cowley Poems)
"HOPE, whose weak Being ruin'd is, Alike if it succeed, and if it miss ; Whom Good or Ill does ...
Alnaschar (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Here's yer toy balloons! All sizes!Twenty cents for that. It risesJest as quick as that 'ere, Miss,Twice as big. Ye ...
Marvellous Martin (Charles Harpur Poems)
Who sees him walk the street, can scarce forbearTo question thus his friend, What prig goes there?So much hath Nature, ...
Sonnet CCX: “Amidst the lottery of days I draw” (George Henry Boker Poems)
CCXAmidst the lottery of days I draw More blanks than prizes; though the hand of hope Still in the luckless ...
Parabola (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Year after year the princess lies asleep Until the hundred years foretold are done, Easily drawing her enchanted breath. Caught ...
Lost (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I crossed the parking lot The man in the convenience store beyond the gas pumps trying to cash already cashed ...
Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe; Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! ...
Lottery Ticket (Robert William Service Poems)
'A ticket for the lottery I've purchased every week,' said she 'For years a score Though desperately poor am I, ...