The Dance To Death. Act IV (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT IV.SCENE I. The City Hall at Nordhausen. Deputies and Burghers assembling. To the right, at a table near the ...
Poems about puzzles (21 Poems)
Saarchinkold! (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
Nose to window, Still as a mouse, Watching grampa "Bank the house." Out of the barrow ...
Coming Home (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
Five minutes here, and they must steal two more! shameful! Here have I been five mortal years and not seen ...
Fifty Years At The Altar (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
To Rev. Father E. Sourin, S.J., from A. J. Ryan; first, in memory of some happy hours passed in his ...
The Memory Man (Billy Bennett Poems)
I'm Professor McCann; I'm the memory man.I've a memory no-one would suspect.I remember things you've all forgottenAnd remember what I ...
The Unco Bit Wean (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Her faither says aften fu' plainly to me,'The wean, woman, 's juist like oor neebors, we see,An' naething ava to ...
A Dream Lesson (Carolyn Wells Poems)
Once there was a little boy who wouldn't go to bed, When they hinted at the subject he would only ...
Ye Bards Of England (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
England, cannot thy shores boast bards as great,And hearts as good as ever blest a State?When arts were rude and ...
After The Rain [for W. D. Snodgrass] (Anthony Hecht Poems)
The barbed-wire fences rust As their cedar uprights blacken After a night of rain. Some early, innocent lust Gets me ...
Marjorie (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
The house is as it was when she was here;There's nothing changed at all about the place;The books she loved ...
This World is not Conclusion (Emily Dickinson Poems)
501This World is not Conclusion.A species stands beyond-Invisible, as Music-But positive, as Sound-It beckons, and it baffles-Philosophy-don't know-And through a ...
Rousseau (Gamaliel Bradford Poems)
That odd, fantastic ass, Rousseau,Declared himself unique.How men persist in doing so,Puzzles me more than Greek.The sins that tarnish whore ...
Just a Game (Gary R. Ferris Poem)
There is something that puzzles me, Things that can't be so; If it's not too much to bother you, There's ...
To Tag (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
To tag, or not to tag: that is the problem: Whether 'tis nobler in the whole to endure The slings ...
This World is not Conclusion. (Emily Dickinson Poem)
This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands beyond -- Invisible, as Music -- But positive, as Sound -- It ...
Jigsaw Puzzles and You (Anastasia Clark Poem)
There were long hyphens in our day- When no one spoke; no one exhaled As we contemplated the broken puzzles- ...
Snowbound, a Winter Idyl (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
Two Blind Men (Robert William Service Poems)
Two blind men met. Said one: "This earth Has been a blackout from my birth. Through darkness I have groped ...
Young Bullfrogs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
JIMMY WIMBLETON listened a first week in June. Ditches along prairie roads of Northern Illinois Filled the arch of night ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
The Gamblers (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
Life's a jail where men have common lot. Gaunt the one who has, and who has not. All our treasures ...