Professor Noctutus (George MacDonald Poems)
Nobody knows the world but me.The rest go to bed; I sit up and see.I'm a better observer than any ...
Poems about oysters (21 Poems)
If All the World Were Paper (Anonymous Americas Poems)
If all the world were paper And all the sea were ink, If all the trees were bread and cheese ...
A Great Lady (Carolyn Wells Poems)
This is the Queen of Nonsense Land, She wears her bonnet on her hand; She carpets her ceilings and frescos ...
In The Evening (Anna Akhmatova Poems)
The garden rang with musicOf inexpressible despair.A dish of oysters spread on iceSmelled like the ocean, fresh and sharp.He told ...
The Dong with a Luminous Nose (Edward Lear Poem)
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
Tim Turpin (Thomas Hood Poem)
Tim Turpin he was gravel-blind, And ne'er had seen the skies : For Nature, when his head was made, Forgot ...
The Conversazzhony (Eugene Field Poem)
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
Apple-Pie and Cheese (Eugene Field Poem)
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
Fit the Fifth ( Hunting of the Snark ) (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Three Voices (Lewis Carroll Poem)
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Little Birds (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Little Birds are dining Warily and well, Hid in mossy cell: Hid, I say, by waiters Gorgeous in their gaiters ...
The Hunting Of The Snark (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The Walrus And The Carpenter (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
Florida (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
The state with the prettiest name, the state that floats in brackish water, held together by mangrave roots that bear ...
Epistle to Neruda (Yevgeny Yevtushenko Poems)
Superb, Like a seasoned lion, Neruda buys bread in the shop. He asks for it to be wrapped in paper ...
The Merman (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I Who would be A merman gay, Singing alone, Sitting alone, With a mermaid's knee, For instance--hey-- For a throne? ...
Oysters (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Charming oysters I cry: My masters, come buy, So plump and so fresh, So sweet is their flesh, No Colchester ...
Noctambule (Robert William Service Poems)
Zut! it's two o'clock. See! the lights are jumping. Finish up your bock, Time we all were humping. Waiters stack ...
Gigolo (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Pocket watch, I tick well. The streets are lizardly crevices Sheer-sided, with holes where to hide. It is best to ...
The Pearl Diver (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the ...
Gentleman Alone (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The young maricones and the horny muchachas, The big fat widows delirious from insomnia, The young wives thirty hours' pregnant, ...