Artemus Ward (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I like Artemus Ward, that quaint Rough, sturdy, antiquated Showman,Who travell'd Yankee-land to paint The social ills in man and ...
Poems about niggers (21 Poems)
Idiot (Allen Tate Poems)
The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,The meadow creeps implacable and still;A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.One ...
A Virginian’s Appeal (Alfred Gibbs Campbell Poems)
Shall Virginia sleep onTill her liberties are gone?Shall the plottings of her foesGo unchecked beneath her nose?Can she, unresisting, seeWomen ...
Figureheads (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
You never see a decent figure'ead —Not now, Bill said,"A fiddlin' bit o' scroll-work at the bowThat's the most now ...
The Charge At Port Hudson (Anonymous Americas Poems)
"Niggers won't fight ah ha!""Niggers won't fight"" ah ha!""They are no good for war, One in a hundred.""Let Mississippi's shore,Flooded ...
The Fowl (C J Dennis Poems)
A noble lesson this should teach, Dear children unto you.If other people's goods you reach,Of rectitude 'twill be a breach,Or ...
Black-Out (C J Dennis Poems)
These English actors are too mild, Who seek to have their wrongs redressed.No manager may be beguiled By supplication or ...
For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell Poem)
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
The Widow’s Party (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
"Where have you been this while away, Johnnie, Johnnie?" 'Long with the rest on a picnic lay, Johnnie, my Johnnie, ...
Snarleyow (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
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 ...
The Galley-Slave (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
America (Allen Ginsberg Poem)
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. I can't ...
The peter-bird (Eugene Field Poem)
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
The Schooner ‘Flight’ (Derek Walcott Poems)
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
Boes (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I WAITED today for a freight train to pass. Cattle cars with steers butting their horns against the bars, went ...
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RUM tiddy um, tiddy um, tiddy um tum tum. My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves. ...
The Ballad of the Carpet Bag (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Ho! Darkies, don't you hear dose voters cryin' Pack dat carpet bag! You must get to de Poll, you must ...
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 ...
The Booker Washington Trilogy (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...