Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
WHAT secret charm, long whispering in mine ear,Allures, attracts, compels, and chains me here,Where murmuring echoes call me to resignTheir ...
Poems about printers (13 Poems)
A Caution against Mobbing (James Wilson Claudero Poems)
Ye Poets, be cautious what muse ye invoke,Be careful too, Printers, and do not provokeThe guardians of justice, or laws ...
The Printer’s Error (Aaron Fogel Poems)
Fellow compositorsand pressworkers!I, Chief PrinterFrank Steinman,having worked fifty-seven years at my trade,and served five yearsas presidentof the HollistonPrinter's Council,being of ...
The Robber (John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Poems)
THE moon hangs lightly on yon western hill;And now it gives a parting look, like oneWho sadly leaves the guilty. ...
The Happy Printer (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
The Printer's is a happy lot:Alone of all professions,No fateful smudges ever blotHis earliest "impressions."The outgrowth of his youthful kenNo ...
Your Book (Matthew Rohrer Poems)
Strangers came into the apartmentwalked right to the bookshelfto spill beer on your book.Your book on a hook dangling off ...
The Duellist – Book II (Charles Churchill Poems)
Deep in the bosom of a wood,Out of the road, a Temple stood:Ancient, and much the worse for wear,It call'd ...
Rose of Aberlone (Brainerd Currie Poems)
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Woe! to the just occasion that compels (Christopher Anstey Poems)
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
The Preface of L. Blundeston (Barnabe Googe Poems)
The Senses dull of my appalled museForeweryed with the trauayle of my brayneIn scannyng of the argued Bookes difuse,And darke ...
Mercury And The Elephant (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poems)
As Merc'ry travell'd thro' a Wood, (Whose Errands are more Fleet than Good) An Elephant before him lay, That much ...
The New Freethinker (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
To My Name-Child (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
1 Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed, Little Louis Sanchez, will be given you ...