An Alphabet Zoo (Carolyn Wells Poems)
A was an apt Alligator, Who wanted to be a head-waiter; He said, "I opine In that field ...
A was an apt Alligator, Who wanted to be a head-waiter; He said, "I opine In that field ...
CAN we not consecrate To man and God above This volume of our great Supernal tide of love? 'Twere wrong ...
Very sturdy rogues. Several have exploited your worlds. With no needs, and in no hurryto make use of their brilliant ...
Should painter attach to a fair human head The thick, turgid neck of a stallion,Or depict a spruce lass with ...
Skies the gray of crystal. A strange design of bridges, some straight, some arched, others descending at oblique angles to ...
Dear Condor: Much thanks for that telephonic support from North Carolina when I suddenly went ape in the Iowa tulips. ...
The popular revolutionary hitting the powerful the turning of the people from servants to freedom From praise to suffering the ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
But outer Space, At least this far, For all the fuss Of the populace Stays more popular Than populous (Robert ...
The Popular Heart is a Cannon first -- Subsequent a Drum -- Bells for an Auxiliary And an Afterward of ...
The Renaissance men are aging now, having survived Industrialization's Original Sin and the Information Age flood; The need for specialization ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
Because there is safety in derision I talked about an apparition, I took no trouble to convince, Or seem plausible ...
(Imitated from Ronsard) Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case. When we are high and airy hundreds say That if ...
I Under the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
Drunk or sober Uncle Jim Played the boy; Never glum or sour or grim, Oozin' joy. Most folks thought he ...
All ye tourists who wish to be away From the crowded city for a brief holiday; The town of Nairn ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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