The Authors: A Satire (Richard Savage Poems)
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
Poems about lunatics (21 Poems)
Eiplogue (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR 'SHE STOOPSTO CONQUER'THERE is a place, so Ariosto sings,A treasury for lost and missing ...
Wild Gratitude (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth,And rubbed her ...
To The Members Of The Sober Society; Sent To The Same With An Engraving (Hector MacNeill Poems)
Dear sober emptyers o' the glass!Behold your goddess -- wife or lass, De'il hae me gin I ken;But weel I wat ...
The Solitary Lament (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
The terrors of night have fallen on me,The shadow of forms no longer I see,Eyes that have lingered on objects ...
Six Brown Boxer Hats (John O Brien Poems)
The hawker with his tilted cart pulled up beside the fence,And opened out his wondrous mart with startling eloquence;All sorts ...
History (Janina Degutyte Poems)
History. History is not papyrus rolls,dried yellow parchments,not marble on pedestals.History is etched in the human heart,in hope, in memory,in ...
First Communions (Arthur Rimbaud Poems)
Truly, they're stupid, these village churchesWhere fifteen ugly chicks soiling the pillarsListen, trilling out their divine responses,To a black freak ...
Love Letter Written In A Burning Building (Anne Sexton Poems)
I am in a crate, the crate that was ours,full of white shirts and salad greens,the icebox knocking at our ...
La Ronde Du Diable (Amy Lowell Poems)
Here we go round the ivy-bush, And that's a tune we all dance to. Little poet people snatching ivy, Trying ...
Hymn (Albert Pike Poems)
Awake! awake! Hear Freedom callingUpon her sons to fly to arms; While Treason's trumpet-tongue appalling Is madly sounding its alarms. ...
Gentle Doctor Brown (Bert Leston Taylor Poems)
It was a gentle sawbones and his name was Doctor Brown.His auto was the terror of a small suburban town.His ...
The Silent Shepherds (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
What's the best life for a man? --Never to have been born, sings the choros, and the next best Is ...
To win a game (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
How do you win a football game? Not by skill alone or clever plays, in modern days the game has ...
Ad Invasions (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Advertisements, they've trashed the web, somehow they've gotten into bed with common sense; ubiquitous and so intense, insistent as to ...
Salut au Monde. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Like A Scarf (Edward Taylor Poems)
The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, more likely they were the random associations and confused ramblings of a ...
Like A Scarf (James Tate Poems)
The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, more likely they were the random associations and confused ramblings of a ...
Cripples And Other Stories (Anne Sexton Poems)
My doctor, the comedian I called you every time and made you laugh yourself when I wrote this silly rhyme... ...
Love Letter Written In A Burning Building (Anne Sexton Poems)
I am in a crate, the crate that was ours, full of white shirts and salad greens, the icebox knocking ...
The Demon Drink (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer. What hast thou done to ...