New-Englands Crisis (Benjamin Tompson Poems)
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
Poems about scab (19 Poems)
Presage To Victory (John Freeman Poems)
IThen first I knew, seeing that bent grey head,How England honours all her thousand dead.Then first I knew how faith ...
Letter From a Father (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
Ulcerated tooth keeps me awake, there issuch pain, would have to go to the hospital to haveit pulled or would ...
Three Valentines to the Wide World (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
IThe child disturbs our view. Tow-head bent, shestands on one leg and folds up the other. She is listeningto the ...
Ayin Nedivah (‘Generous Eye’): Qasida for Solomon Ibn Ghiyyat (Yehudah HaLevi Poems)
I can't stop crying.My eyes are like peddler women.What they buy is: you are gone.What they sell is: tears,And business ...
A Confidence (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
UNCLE JOHN, he makes me tired;Thinks 'at he's jest so all-firedSmart, 'at he kin pick up, so,Ever'thing he wants to ...
The Man from Waterloo (With kind Regards to Banjo) (Henry Lawson Poems)
It was the Man from Waterloo, When work in town was slack,Who took the track as bushmen do, And humped his swag out ...
3 Sonnets for Migrants (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
1Stiff work for hands or will, they drovetheir brig southward. Science asked them assignplanet and land-mass place where none was ...
New-Englands (Benjamin Tompson Poems)
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
Billy Barlow in Australia (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
When I was at home I was down on my luck,And I earned a poor living by drawing a truck;But ...
The Sale of Rebellious House-hold Stuff. To the tune of Old Simon the King (Anonymous British Poems)
Rebellion hath broken up house,And hath left me old lumber to sell;Come hither and take your choice,I'll promise to use ...
The Squatter of the Olden Time (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
I'll sing to you a fine new song, made by my blessed mate,Of a fine Australian squatter who had a ...
The Unbeloved (Charles Lamb Poems)
Not a woman, child, or man inAll this isle, that loves thee, C—-ng.Fools, whom gentle manners sway,May incline to C—-gh,Princes, ...
The Player Piano (Randall Jarrell Poem)
I ate pancakes one night in a Pancake House Run by a lady my age. She was gay. When I ...
Gunner (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Did they send me away from my cat and my wife To a doctor who poked me and counted my ...
Meeting (Peter Huchel Poem)
For Michael Hamburger Barn owl daughter of snow, subject to the night wind, yet taking root with her talons in ...
Scab Maids On Speed (Maggie Estep Poem)
My first job was when I was about 15. I had met a girl named Hope who became my best ...
174. The Bard at Inverary (Robert Burns Poems)
WHOE'ER he be that sojourns here, I pity much his case, Unless he comes to wait upon The Lord their ...
A Bushman’s Song (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
I'M travellin' down the Castlereagh, and I'm a station hand, I'm handy with the ropin' pole, I'm handy with the ...