Little Pat And The Parson (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
He stands at the door of the church peeping in,No troublesome beadle is near him;The preacher is talking of sinners ...
Poems about scolds (21 Poems)
Epilogue To ‘She Stoops To Conquer’ (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
WELL, having stoop'd to conquer with success,And gain'd a husband without aid from dress,Still, as a Bar-maid, I could wish ...
On Beauty. A Riddle (Matthew Prior Poems)
Resolve Me, Cloe, what is This:Or forfeit me One precious Kiss.'Tis the first Off-spring of the Graces;Bears diff'rent Forms in ...
The Gadfly (John Keats Poems)
1.All gentle folks who owe a grudgeTo any living thingOpen your ears and stay your tudgeWhilst I in dudgeon sing.2.The ...
On A Fortification At Boston Begun By Women (Benjamin Tompson Poems)
A Grand attempt some Amazonian DamesContrive whereby to glorify their names,A Ruff for Boston Neck of mud and turfe,Reaching from ...
Why I Love Them (Mary Alice Walton Poems)
I would tell thee of Stella, how she made glad the hours,So oft calling mother with strewn wreaths and flowers,Blue ...
A Thaw (Peter McArthur Poems)
THE farm-house fire is dull and black,The trailing smoke rolls white and lowAlong the fields till by the woodIt banks ...
Windmill (John Chipman Farrar Poems)
The windmill stands up like a flower on the hillWith its petals a-whirling—they seldom stay still—And its funny old voice ...
Red Robin (C J Dennis Poems)
Hi, it's a funny world! This mornin' when I wokeI saw red robin on the fence, an' heard the words ...
Beef Tea (C J Dennis Poems)
She never nagged; she never said no word; But sat an' looked at me an' never stirred. I could ...
In Imitation of Spenser : The Alley (Alexander Pope Poems)
I.In ev'ry Town, where Thamis rolls his Tyde,A narrow pass there is, with Houses low;Where ever and anon, the Stream ...
John Tod (Carolina Oliphant Poems)
He's a terrible man, John Tod, John Tod,He's a terrible man, John Tod. He scolds in the ...
Nightfall in Dordrecht (Eugene Field Poems)
"The mill goes toiling slowly around With steady and solemn creak, And my little one hears in the kindly ...
Afraid Of His Dad (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Bill Jones, who goes to school with me,Is the saddest boy I ever see.He's just so 'fraid he runs awayWhen ...
On A Fortificatio (Benjamin Tompson Poems)
A Grand attempt some Amazonian DamesContrive whereby to glorify their names,A Ruff for Boston Neck of mud and turfe,Reaching from ...
The Land Of Nowhere (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Do you know where the summer blooms all the year 'round,Where there never is rain on a pic-nic day?Where the ...
The Pup (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
He tore the curtains yesterday, And scratched the paper on the wall;Ma's rubbers, too, have gone astray— She ...
The Lady Poverty (Alice Meynell Poems)
The Lady Poverty was fair:But she has lost her looks of late,With change of times and change of air.Ah slattern, ...
Melbourne Sonnets: XV. Subconsciousness (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
THAT she may languish in her sumptuous flat,Ten thousand acres sweat with wool andwheat;That she may lunch, maids tend her ...
Shall gods be said to thump the clouds (Dylan Thomas Poems)
Shall gods be said to thump the cloudsWhen clouds are cursed by thunder,Be said to weep when weather howls?Shall rainbows ...
Skipper Ireson’s Ride (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, - On Apuleius' Golden ...