The Vote of Thanks Debate (Henry Lawson Poems)
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Poems about sarcastic (21 Poems)
The Boss’s Boots (Henry Lawson Poems)
The Shearers squint along the pens, they squint along the 'shoots;'The shearers squint along the board to catch the Boss's ...
My Very Particular Friend (Maria Smith Abdy Poems)
Are you struck with her figure and face? How lucky you happened to meetWith none of the gossipping race, Who dwell in ...
Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret,Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I lingerKnown familiarly as 'King's.'And the ghosts ...
The Daft-days (Robert Fergusson Poems)
Now mirk December's dowie faceGlours our the rigs wi' sour grimace,While, thro' his minimum of space,The bleer-ey'd sunWi' blinkin light ...
Timmy’s Sacrifice (H Vernon Watson Poems)
One evening ev'ry year the local Mayor was wont to meetThe children of the city at their annual Christmas treat;And ...
How Jack Made The Giants Uncommonly Sore (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
Of all the ill-fatedBoys ever createdYoung Jack was the wretchedest lad:An emphatic, erratic,Dogmatic fanaticWas foisted upon him as dad!From the ...
On The Death Of Dermody The Poet (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Child of Misfortune! Offspring of the Muse!Mark like the meteor's gleam his mad career;With hollow cheeks and haggard eye,Behold he ...
The Brief Journey West (Howard Nemerov Poems)
By the dry road the fathers cough and spit,This is their room. They are the ones who hungThat bloody sun ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
Tale IX (George Crabbe Poems)
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
Termarter Sorce (C J Dennis Poems)
It was n't kid stakes. I 'ad no crook lurk To act deceivin', or to treat 'er mean.I'm old enough ...
Where Not Long Ago We Talked (Carlos Drummond de Andrade Poems)
It is an old piano, belonged to a grandmother, dead in another century. And it plays and it cries and ...
The Silent Member (C J Dennis Poems)
He lived in Mundaloo, and Bill McClosky was his name,But folks that knew him well had little knowledge of that ...
Hic Vir, Hic Est (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Often, when o'er tree and turret, Eve a dying radiance flings,By that ancient pile I linger Known familiarly as "King's."And ...
The Society Upon The Stanislaus (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;I am not up to small deceit or any sinful ...
Wanton June (Cale Young Rice Poems)
I knew she would come! Sarcastic November Laughed cold and glum On the last ...
He Lived To Learn (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
He lived to learn, to watch his knowledge grow,Nightly to question what advance preciseTwelve hours had given to that tide ...
Lara (Lord Byron Poem)
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
The Man From Athabaska (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the ...