Down-Hall. A Ballad. (Matthew Prior Poems)
Tune. — "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury."I sing not old Jason who travell'd through GreeceTo kiss the fair ...
Poems about premises (20 Poems)
England’s Neutrality (John Reuben Thompson Poems)
A Parliamentary Debate.All ye who with credulity the whispers hear of fancy,Or yet pursue with eagerness hope's wild extravagancy,Who dream ...
Three Valentines to the Wide World (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
That There Dog O’ Mine (Henry Lawson Poems)
Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at ...
O’Hara, J.P. (Henry Lawson Poems)
James Patrick O'Hara the Justice of Peace,He bossed the P.M. and he bossed the police;A parent, a deacon, a landlord ...
A Poet in the Kitchen (George Bradley Poems)
West Fifty-third was still Hell's Kitchenthe summer I first came to town,Eleventh Avenue was boarded up,the West Side Drive was ...
“Mylo Jones’s Wife” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Mylo Jones's wife" was allI heerd, mighty near, last Fall--Visitun relations downT'other side of Morgantown!Mylo Jones's wife she doesThis and ...
At a Lecture (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
Since mistakes are inevitable, I can easily be takenfor a man standing before you in this room filledwith yourselves. Yet ...
Dream Song 2 (John Berryman Poems)
The jane is zoned! no nightspot here, no barthere, no sweet freeway, and no premisesfor business purposes,no loiterers or needers. ...
On The Road (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
October, and eleven after dark: Both mist and night. Among us in the coach Packed heat on which the windows ...
Cadet Grey – Canto I (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
IAct first, scene first. A study. Of a kind Half cell, half salon, opulent yet grave;Rare books, low-shelved, yet far ...
At The Close Of The Canvass (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
'Twas a Venerable Person, whom I met one Sunday morning,All appareled as a prophet of a melancholy sect;And in a ...
The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly (James Joyce Poems)
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
God made no act without a cause, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
God made no act without a cause, Nor heart without an aim, Our inference is premature, Our premises to blame. ...
Dutch Mistress (Joseph Brodsky Poem)
A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals. With wet Koh-i-noors the October rain strokes what's left ...
Dream Song 2: Big Buttons, Cornets: the advance (John Berryman Poem)
The jane is zoned! no nightspot here, no bar there, no sweet freeway, and no premises for business purposes, no ...
Knee-Deep in June (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Tell you what I like the best -- 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the ...
On the Way (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
The Clepington Catastrophe (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
The Disastrous Fire at Scarborough (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 8th of June, A mother and six children met with a ...