Into The World (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Out over childhood's borders,Manhood's brave banners unfurled,Weighed down with precepts and ordersA boy has gone into the world.Nobody thinks it ...
Poems about scramble (21 Poems)
Man’s Experience (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
A SCRAMBLE for gold,And a scurry for place,A brief pause for loving,A kiss, an embrace,A ring; then the altar,A vow ...
The Lights of Cobb & Co. (Henry Lawson Poem)
Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; ...
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (Robert Lowell Poem)
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
Cat Scat (Eamon Grennan Poem)
I am watching Cleo listening, our cat listening to Mozart's Magic Flute. What can she be hearing? What can the ...
The Bough of Nonsense (Robert Graves Poem)
AN IDYLL Back from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poem)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together, Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand, Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, ...
Diary of a Church Mouse (John Betjeman Poem)
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
The Englishman In Italy (Robert Browning Poem)
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
Short Order (Charles Bukowski Poems)
I took my girlfriend to your last poetry reading, she said. yes, yes? I asked. she's young and pretty, she ...
HYMN (Barry Tebb Poems)
How I love the working-class girls of Leeds, Their mile-wide smiles, eyes bright as beads, Their young breasts bobbing as ...
SUMMER FEVER (Barry Tebb Poems)
The unsettled trees seem to share My tensions of body and mind: Unable to move before the shell of the ...
Endless Time (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord. There is none to count thy minutes. Days and nights pass and ...
The Lottery (Robert William Service Poems)
"Young fellow, listen to a friend: Beware of wedlock - 'tis a gamble, It's MAN who holds the losing end ...
An Ode in Time of Hesitation (William Vaughn Moody Poems)
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
To God the Father (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
To the little, pitiful God I make my prayer, The God with the long grey beard And flowing robe fastened ...
From ‘Arcades’ (John Milton Poems)
O'RE the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the ...
The First Death. (extracts) (Dimitris Lyacos Poems)
Shoestring Press, Nottingham, 2000. VIII Final concept harbour which has broken there where it crumpled our faces there where ikons ...
Lycidas (John Milton Poems)
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
Mating (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
Round clouds roll in the arms of the wind, The round earth rolls in a clasp of blue sky, And ...
The Power Of Prayer (Sidney Lanier Poems)
or, The First Steamboat up the Alabama. You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet. De Lord, ...