The Sally From Coventry (Anonymous British Poems)
Passion o' me! cried Sir Richard Tyrone,Spurning the sparks from the broad paving-stone,"Better turn nurse and rock children to sleep,Than ...
Poems about puritan (21 Poems)
Footlight Motifs (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
IMRS. FISKEStaccato, hurried, nervous, brisk, Cascading, intermittent, choppy,The brittle voice of Mrs. Fiske Shall serve me now as copy.Assist me, ...
How To Treat A Poet (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Break his spirit, until heWrite for popularity.If he thirst, bid him drinkFloods of sentimental ink;Then, with inspiration spent,Make him Poetry ...
Who Lights The Fire? (George MacDonald Poems)
Who lights the fire—that forth so gracefullyAnd freely frolicketh the fairy smoke?Some pretty one who never felt the yoke—Glad girl, ...
I Remember (Anne Sexton Poems)
By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and ...
Cliche Came Out of its Cage (C. S. Lewis Poem)
1 You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'. Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar ...
Arthur (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wait 'till next year Murmur/ Mantra in a knowing tone - He'd seen the magic - World Champions Bleacher seats ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Milton (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
Hudson’s Last Voyage (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Fruit of the Flower (Countee Cullen Poem)
My father is a quiet man With sober, steady ways; For simile, a folded fan; His nights are like his ...
California Plush (Frank Bidart Poem)
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
Wild Peaches (Elinor Wylie Poems)
1 When the world turns completely upside down You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from ...
M’Fingal – Canto I (John Trumbull Poems)
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
I Remember (Anne Sexton Poems)
By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and ...
Wine Bibber (Robert William Service Poems)
I would rather drink than eat, And though I superbly sup, Food, I feel, can never beat Delectation of the ...
Virgin In A Tree (Sylvia Plath Poems)
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
The Borders (Sharon Olds Poems)
To say that she came into me, from another world, is not true. Nothing comes into the universe and nothing ...
For Annie (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Thank Heaven! the crisis- The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last- And the fever called ...
The White Cliffs (Alice Duer Miller Poems)
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
My lady in her white silk shawl Is like a lily dim, Within the twilight of the room Enthroned and ...