The Fruit Shop (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Poems about nigger (22 Poems)
The Song Of Old Joe Swallow (Henry Lawson Poem)
When I was up the country in the rough and early days, I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett's ...
Australia’s Peril (Henry Lawson Poems)
We must suffer, husband and father, we must suffer, daughter and son, For the wrong we have taken part in ...
In the Storm that is to come (Henry Lawson Poem)
By our place in the midst of the furthest seas we were fated to stand alone - When the nations ...
Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane (Etheridge Knight Poem)
Hard Rock/ was/ "known not to take no shit From nobody," and he had the scars to prove it: Split ...
Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine (Etheridge Knight Poem)
And, yeah brothers while white America sings about the unsinkable molly brown (who was hustling the titanic when it went ...
The Rhyme of the Three Captains (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Loot (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line, If ...
The Ladies (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Our Lady of the Mine (Eugene Field Poem)
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
Incident (Countee Cullen Poem)
Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee; I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I ...
89. The Ordination (Robert Burns Poems)
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
The Corner Man (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I dreamt a dream at the midnight deep, When fancies come and go To vex a man in his soothing ...
The Incantation (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Scene: Federal Political Arena A darkened cave. In the middle, a cauldron, boiling. Enter the three witches. 1ST WITCH: Thrice ...
Ozymandias II (Howard Nemerov Poems)
I met a guy I used to know, who said: "You take your '57 Karnak, now, The model that they ...
Song by the Window Before Bed (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
Little Star, little Star, Come down quick. The Moon is a bogey-man; He'll eat you certain if he can. Little ...
DARKIES (John Lindley Poems)
"I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid". Hattie McDaniel. I'm ...
Gangrene (Philip Levine Poems)
Vous êtes sorti sain et sauf des basses calomnies, vous avey conquis les coeurs. Zola, J'accuse One was kicked in ...
The Raft (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
The whole world on a raft! A King is here, The record of his grandeur but a smear. Is it ...
The Power Of Prayer (Sidney Lanier Poems)
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...