The Limit (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
While I hold as superficial him who has his young initial Neatly graven on his Turkish cigarette,Such a bit of ...
Poems about nuisance (21 Poems)
Mischief (Ann Taylor Poems)
LET those who're fond of idle tricks,Of throwing stones, and hurling bricks,And all that sort of fun,Now hear a tale ...
A Choice (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Sure, they get stubborn at times; they worry and fret us a lot,But I'd rather be crossed by a ...
Colonization (Anonymous Americas Poems)
To The Freed Colored People: Will you, will you be colonized?Will you, will you be colonized? 'Tis a land that ...
The Bottle Tree (Eugene Field Poems)
A bottle tree bloometh in Winkyway land -Heigh-ho for a bottle, I say!A snug little berth in that ship I ...
The Joy Of A Dog (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Ma says no, it's too much care An' it will scatter germs an' hair, An' it's a nuisance through and ...
Go Slow (A P Herbert Poems)
Go slow, you raving ass, go slow,And do not cut your corners so;For there's a citizen aheadWho will not help ...
Daily Trials by a Sensitive Man (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
Oh, there are times When all this fret and tumult that we hear Do seem more stale than to the ...
Follower (Seamus Heaney Poem)
My father worked with a horse-plough, His shoulders globed like a full sail strung Between the shafts and the furrow. ...
The bottle tree (Eugene Field Poem)
A bottle tree bloometh in Winkyway land - Heigh-ho for a bottle, I say! A snug little berth in that ...
A proper trewe idyll of camelot (Eugene Field Poem)
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
A few kind words (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
A few kind words, what can be bought with that? In essence just a clique of tidy prose, a verb, ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
M’Fingal – Canto III (John Trumbull Poems)
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
Mischief (Jane Taylor Poems)
Let those who're fond of idle tricks, Of throwing stones, and hurling bricks, And all that sort of fun, Now ...
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 ...
Pedlar (Robert William Service Poems)
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
My Last Will (Sir Walter Raleigh Poems)
When I am safely laid away, Out of work and out of play, Sheltered by the kindly ground From the ...
Tombstones in the Starlight (Dorothy Parker Poems)
I. The Minor Poet His little trills and chirpings were his best. No music like the nightingale's was born Within ...
PG Wooster, Just as he Useter (Ogden Nash Poems)
Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library, Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary, Lean on the counter and ...
The Shrimp (Ogden Nash Poems)
A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp Could catch no glimpse Not even a glimp. At times, translucence Is rather ...