The Lay Of The Lady Lorraine (Carolyn Wells Poems)
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
Poems about preposterous (21 Poems)
A Ballad of Freedom (C J Dennis Poems)
Now Mr. Jeremiah BaneHe owned a warehouse in The Lane,An edifice of goodly size,Where, with keen private enterprise, He sold ...
The Insect (C J Dennis Poems)
From Camoweal to Windywoe, from Windywoe to Thirstyville,We'll drag the line around the map, along the plain, and up the ...
Limericks (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
THERE is a big artist named Val, The roughs' and the prize-fighters' pal: The mind of a groom And the ...
Pipes And Beer (Edgar Fawcett Poems)
Before I was famous I used to sitIn a dull old under-ground room I knew,And sip cheap beer, and be ...
Similar Cases (Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Poems)
There was once a little animal,No bigger than a fox,And on five toes he scamperedOver Tertiary rocks.They called him Eohippus,And ...
A Dirge of the Morning After (C J Dennis Poems)
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (wailing dismally):"Who can deliver us, Lord of our destiny! Out of the depths comes our passionate ...
At Milking-Time (Emma Alice Browne Poems)
Coe, Berry-brown! Hie, Thistledown!Make haste; the milking-time is come!The bells are ringing in the town,Tho' all the green hillside is ...
The Kangaroo (Barron Field Poems)
Kanagaroo, Kangaroo! Thou Spirit of Australia, That redeems from utter failure, From perfect desolation, And warrants the creation Of this ...
Nurse Green (Charles Lamb Poems)
Your prayers you have said, and you've wished good night: What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake?This throb ...
Consistency (Eugene Field Poems)
Should painter attach to a fair human head The thick, turgid neck of a stallion,Or depict a spruce lass with ...
Today I’ll Sit Still (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Today I'll sit still.When my dog shuffles over and offers mehis fleas and his soul, I'll turn away.To everything I'll ...
Sad Steps (Philip Larkin Poem)
Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the ...
Quia Absurdum (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
Guard yourself from the terrible empty light of space, the bottomless Pool of the stars. (Expose yourself to it: you ...
Thoreau in Italy (Robert Francis Poem)
Lingo of birds was easier than lingo of peasants- they were elusive, though, the birds, for excellent reasons. He thought ...
He Said To (Marvin Bell Poem)
crawl toward the machine guns except to freeze for explosions and flares. It was still ninety degrees at night in ...
Blood And The Moon (William Butler Yeats Poems)
I Blessed be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, ...
M’Fingal – Canto II (John Trumbull Poems)
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
Lawyer (Carl Sandburg Poems)
WHEN the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks of direct and cross examinations, hot clashes of lawyers ...
Impossible To Tell (Robert Pinsky Poems)
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Bashõ and his friends ...
Lion & Honeycomb (Howard Nemerov Poems)
He didn't want to do it with skill, He'd had enough of skill. If he never saw Another villanelle, it ...