Everyday Characters II – Quince (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Fallentis semita vit*. - Hor.Near a small village in the West,Where many very worthy peopleEat, drink, play whist, and do ...
Poems about rapped (21 Poems)
How Deacon Fry Bought A “Duchess.” (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
It sorter skeer'd the neighbours round, For of all the 'tarnal set thet clutchesTheir dollars firm, he wus the boss; An' yet ...
Harry Morant (William Henry Ogilvie Poems)
Harry Morant was a friend I hadIn the years long passed away,A chivalrous, wild and reckless lad,A knight born out ...
Eliza Harris’ Parental Love (James Madison Bell Poems)
When February's chilling winds Swept through the forest glen,And nothing, save the smoking hut, Marked the abodes of men,I through my lattice ...
Fifty Years (Pierre Jean de Beranger Poems)
Wherefore these flowers? floral applause? Ah, no, these blossoms came to sayThat I am growing old, because I number fifty years to-day.O ...
The Sign Of Eternity (Paul Colinet Poems)
We'd grown wiser. We might have become nosegays, on theday's silver lattices.When someone rapped on our door, we heard the ...
The Kalevala – Rune XX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE BREWING OF BEER.Now we sing the wondrous legends,Songs of wedding-feasts and dances,Sing the melodies of wedlock,Sing the songs of ...
The Kalevala – Rune XIX (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
ILMARINEN'S WOOING.ILMARINEN, hero-blacksmith,The eternal metal-worker,Hastens forward to the court-roomOf the hostess of Pohyola,Of the master of the Northland,Hastens through the ...
A Convict’s Tour To Hell (Frank Macnamara Poems)
Nor can the foremost of the sons of menEscape my ribald and licentious penSwiftYou prisoners of New South Wales,Who frequent ...
A Convict’s Tour To Hell (Francis McNamara Poems)
Composed at Stroud A.A. Co. Establishment StationNew South Wales.Composed and written October 23rd day, Anno 1839You prisoners of New South ...
Little Red Riding-Hood (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
If you listen, children, I will tell The story of little Red Riding-hood: Such wonderful, wonderful things befell ...
Suicide Sal (Bonnie Parker Poems)
We each of us have a good "alibi"For being down here in the "joint"But few of them really are justifiedIf ...
Henry George (Francis W L Adams Poems)
(Melbourne)I CAME to buy a book. It was a shopDown in a narrow quiet street, and hereThey kept, I knew, ...
Rondeau (Francoise Villon Poems)
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,Lord, and everlasting light,He wasn't worth a candle bright,Nor even a sprig of parsley.Of eyebrows, ...
Tapers To St. Beelzebub (Benjamin Musser Poems)
Stepping demurely, two by two,Those rapped at Paradise; and went through.In flame to shame the golden sun,These flew to Sheol, ...
Pickthorn Manor (Amy Lowell Poem)
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening (Amy Lowell Poem)
After a Print by George Cruikshank It was a gusty night, With the wind booming, and swooping, Looping round corners, ...
As the Bell Clinks (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely Maid last season worshipped dumbly, watched with ...
My Typewriter (Robert William Service Poems)
I used to think a pot of ink Held magic in its fluid, And I would ply a pen when ...
The Pencil Seller (Robert William Service Poems)
A pencil, sir; a penny -- won't you buy? I'm cold and wet and tired, a sorry plight; Don't turn ...
Lingard and the Stars (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
The table hurled itself, to our surprise, At Lingard, and anon rapped eagerly: "When earth is cold and there is ...