The Parson’s Psalm (Joseph Green Poems)
IN David's Psalms an oversightByles found one morning at his tea.Alas! that ...
Poems about mackerel (21 Poems)
From “A Rhapsody” (John Clare Poems)
Sweet solitude, what joy to be alone-- In wild, wood-shady dell to stay for hours.Twould soften hearts if they were hard ...
Notice (J W Renoud Poems)
NOTICEStep up ye gallant fair and brave!Step up, Torn, Jake and Kate,Unto my store in Norwalk town,In Main Street, number ...
Lines For A Friend’s Album (Joanna Baillie Poems)
LINES , in addition to the treasureOf poesy, culled for the pleasureOf beau and belle and gentle dame,When seated round ...
A Summer’s Dream (Elizabeth Bishop Poems)
To the sagging wharffew ships could come.The population numberedtwo giants, an idiot, a dwarf,a gentle storekeeperasleep behind his counter,and our ...
Eclogue by a Five-barred Gate (Louis MacNeice Poems)
Well, I dreamt it was a hot day, the territorialsWere out on melting asphalt under the howitzers,The brass music bounced ...
A Phenomenal Fauna (Carolyn Wells Poems)
THE REG'LAR LARKThe Reg'lar Lark's a very gay old Bird;At sunrise often may his voice be heardAs jauntily he wends ...
Silences (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
There is no silence upon the earth or under the earth like the silence under the sea;No cries announcing ...
Archy Interviews A Pharaoh (Donald Marquis Poems)
boss i wentand interviewed the mummyof the egyptian pharaohin the metropolitan museumas you bade me to dowhat homy regal leatherfacesays ...
Bound for Sourabaya! (Charles Henry Souter Poems)
OH, the moon shines bright, and we sail to-night, And we're bound for Sourabaya! So it's 'Farewell, Jane!' for ...
A Greyport Legend (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
They ran through the streets of the seaport town,They peered from the decks of the ships that lay;The cold sea-fog ...
Market Square (A.A. Milne Poems)
I had a penny,A bright new penny,I took my pennyTo the market square.I wanted a rabbit,A little brown rabbit,And I ...
Bound For Sourabaya! (Charles Henry Soutar Poems)
OH, the moon shines bright, and we sail to-night, And we're bound for Sourabaya! So it's 'Farewell, Jane!' for we're ...
Almost Anything (Clark Ashton Smith Poems)
Superlatively sonorousLike a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin-nails;Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberantLike the quobbing of a foetus five ...
Name of Horses (Donald Hall Poem)
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood ...
A Display Of Mackeral (Mark Doty Poem)
They lie in parallel rows, on ice, head to tail, each a foot of luminosity barred with black bands, which ...
Devonshire Street W.1 (John Betjeman Poem)
The heavy mahogany door with its wrought-iron screen Shuts. And the sound is rich, sympathetic, discreet. The sun still shines ...
Invitation To Miss Marianne Moore (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, ...
I, In My Intricate Image (Dylan Thomas Poems)
I I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels, Forged in man's minerals, the brassy orator Laying my ghost ...
Berck-Plage (Sylvia Plath Poems)
(1) This is the sea, then, this great abeyance. How the sun's poultice draws on my inflammation. Electrifyingly-colored sherbets, scooped ...
Market Square (A. A. Milne Poems)
I had a penny, A bright new penny, I took my penny To the market square. I wanted a rabbit, ...