Tom Van Arden (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Tom Van Arden, my old friend, Our warm fellowship is oneFar too old to comprehend Where its bond was first begun: Mirage-like before ...
Poems about prosy (21 Poems)
Arcadia Rediviva (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I, walking the familiar street, While a crammed horse-car jingled through it,Was lifted from my prosy feet And in Arcadia ere I ...
To The Judge (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
_A Voice From the Interior of Old Hoop-Pole Township_Friend of my earliest youth, Can't you arrange to come downAnd visit a ...
In Oblivion (Peter McArthur Poems)
COME, friend, there's going to be a merry meetingAfter the play. Our masks we'll throw aside,And after chaff and chat ...
Fact And Fancy (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Poems)
How dull the wretch, whose philosophic mindDisdains the pleasures of fantastic kind;Whose prosy thoughts the joys of life exclude,And wreck ...
The Old Clock (John Charles McNeill Poems)
All day low clouds and slanting rainHave swept the woods and dimmed the plain.Wet winds have swayed the birch and ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poems)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together,Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand,Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, altitudes,High, make ...
My Room (George MacDonald Poems)
To G.E.M.'Tis a little room, my friend—Baby walks from end to end;All the things look sadly realThis hot noontide unideal;Vaporous ...
Love Versus Learning (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAS, for the blight of my fancies! Alas, for the fall of my pride! I planned, in my girlish romances, ...
Radiolatry (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The worst of all idolatorsAre zealous radiolatersWho wreck the peace of erstwhile happy homesWith drool of variometers,Detectors, galvanometers,Antennae, switches, batteries ...
The Wicket Cricket Critic (C J Dennis Poems)
If the cricket critics' naggingMerits stern official gagging -- Which I doubt --How would critical ascetics,With their prosy homiletics, Shut ...
Office Mottoes (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
Motto heartening, inspiring, Framed above my pretty *desk,Never Shelley, Keats, or Byring* Penned a phrase so picturesque!But in me no ...
Frank the Jester (C J Dennis Poems)
There's joy in legislative halls When Frank's in opposition;But gloom upon the Chamber falls When Frank holds high position.His merry ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poem)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together, Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand, Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, ...
I held a Jewel in my fingers (Emily Dickinson Poem)
I held a Jewel in my fingers -- And went to sleep -- The day was warm, and winds were ...
Over The Parapet (Robert William Service Poems)
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
Wounded (Robert William Service Poems)
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
Simplicity (Robert William Service Poems)
What I seek far yet seldom find Is large simplicity of mind In fellow men; For I have sprouted from ...
The Bohemian Dreams (Robert William Service Poems)
Because my overcoat's in pawn, I choose to take my glass Within a little bistro on The rue du Montparnasse; ...
A Rolling Stone (Robert William Service Poems)
There's sunshine in the heart of me, My blood sings in the breeze; The mountains are a part of me, ...
Niagara (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
I Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes. Like ants they worry to and fro, (Important ...