A Pat On The Back (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
A PAT on the back is a wonderful thing, It gives a man courage to whistle and sing; When hope ...
Poems about sag (21 Poems)
Old Town Types No. 7 – Big Jack (C J Dennis Poems)
Well I remember him -- Big Jack Herrington; Big Jack, the lumper, tanned and honest-eyed,The clean, straight limbs of him,The ...
Waar Tebes In Die Stil Woestyn (Eugene Marais Poems)
Daar sou ek vrede weer besefWaar Tebes in die stil woestynSy magtig' rotswerk hoog verhefEn Mara in die sand verdwyn;Waar ...
Drought (Flexmore Hudson Poems)
Midsummer noon: and the timbered wallsstart in the heat;and the children sag listlessly over the desks,with bloodless faces oozing sweatsipped ...
Die Stille Rusplaas (Eugene Marais Poems)
Drie verse uit "Die Tuin van Proserpina"Die Juigende, die Sterke -Die dood sal hom ook raak;Nooit sal hy vlieg met ...
God’s World (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!Thy mists that roll and rise!Thy woods this ...
Skin (Philip Larkin Poem)
Obedient daily dress, You cannot always keep That unfakable young surface. You must learn your lines - Anger, amusement, sleep; ...
That Distance Apart (Jackie Kay Poem)
I am only nineteen My whole life is changing Tonight I see her Shuttered eyes in my dreams I cannot ...
The Ballad of the “Bolivar” (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
Oberon’s Feast (Robert Herrick Poems)
Hapcot! To thee the Fairy State I with discretion, dedicate. Because thou prizest things that are Curious, and un-familiar. Take ...
The Old Front Gate (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
W'en daih's chillun in de house, Dey keep on a-gittin' tall; But de folks don' seem to see Dat dey's ...
The Towers of Time (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
The Loss of Love (Countee Cullen Poem)
All through an empty place I go, And find her not in any room; The candles and the lamps I ...
1991-II (Wendell Berry Poem)
The ewes crowd to the mangers; Their bellies widen, sag; Their udders tighten. Soon The little voices cry In morning ...
Dear Deborah (Deborah Ager Poem)
They tell me that your heart has been found in Iowa, pumping along Interstate 35. Do you want it back? ...
Lullaby (Anne Sexton Poems)
It is a summer evening. The yellow moths sag against the locked screens and the faded curtains suck over the ...
Good-Bye, Little Cabin (Robert William Service Poems)
O dear little cabin, I've loved you so long, And now I must bid you good-bye! I've filled you with ...
Ripe Fruit (Robert William Service Poems)
Through eyelet holes I watched the crowd Rain of confetti fling; Their joy is lush, their laughter loud, For Carnival ...
Beak-Bashing Boy (Robert William Service Poems)
But yesterday I banked on fistic fame, Figgerin' I'd be a champion of the Ring. Today I've half a mind ...
Exposure (Wilfred Owen Poems)
I Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . . Wearied we keep awake ...
God’s World (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! Thy mists, that roll and rise! ...