The Owl Describing her Young Ones (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Why was that baleful Creature made, Which seeks our Quiet to invade, And screams ill Omens through the Shade? 'Twas, ...
Poems about meat (51 Poems)
Counting Sheep (Russell Edson Poem)
A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. He wonders if he should try to shrink a pasture for ...
Ape (Russell Edson Poem)
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father, who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers. I've had ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Ode To William H. Channing (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
Mithridates (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that ...
My Mother Would Be a Falconress (Robert Duncan Poem)
My mother would be a falconress, And I, her gay falcon treading her wrist, would fly to bring back from ...
The Threat (Denise Duhamel Poem)
my mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty suitcase because she kept threatening to run ...
Signs of the Times (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah, Frost a-comin' in de night, Hicka' nuts an' wa'nuts fallin', Possum keepin' out o' sight. ...
Elegy XVIII: Love’s Progress (John Donne Poems)
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
The Mind lives on the Heart (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The Mind lives on the Heart Like any Parasite -- If that is full of Meat The Mind is fat. ...
Surprise is like a thrilling — pungent — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Surprise is like a thrilling -- pungent -- Upon a tasteless meat Alone -- too acrid -- but combined An ...
Experiment to me (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon ...
Endanger it, and the Demand (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Endanger it, and the Demand Of tickets for a sigh Amazes the Humility Of Credibility -- Recover it to Nature ...
Mine Enemy is growing old — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If ...
Pumpkins in our time (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace, their parent vines had all but browned and died although a ...
Carbonara eyes (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Nicky said I couldn't write, she's got a charming sense of social etiquette - given she's a bitch (the canine ...
Endurance (Peter Conners Poem)
Indeed. These jagged crevasses of the psyche are treacherous, gray. Extending two hundred plus days in every direction; an ominous ...
The Song against Grocers (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
The Englishman (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
St George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out ...
The Reeve’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
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 ...
The General Prologue (Geoffrey Chaucer Poem)
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Tradition, thou art for suckling children (Stephen Crane Poem)
Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes; But no meat for men is in ...
The Voice of the Lobster (Lewis Carroll Poem)
''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my ...
Brother And Sister (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"SISTER, sister, go to bed! Go and rest your weary head." Thus the prudent brother said. "Do you want a ...
Summer (John Clare Poem)
Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come, For the woods are full of bluebells and the ...
Café Talk (Thomas Blackburn Poem)
'Of course,' I said, 'we cannot hope to find What we are looking for in anyone; They glitter, maybe, but ...
Slough (John Betjeman Poem)
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now, There isn't grass to graze a cow. ...