Music (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
IMUSIC, on the air's edge, rides alone,Plumed like empastured Caesars of the skyWith a god's helmet; now, in the gold ...
Poems about shambling (21 Poems)
The Phantom And The Dreamer (Patience Worth Poems)
Phantom:Thick stands the hill in garb of fir,And winter-stripped the branching shrub.Cold grey the sky, and glistered o'erWith star-dust pulsing ...
The Christ upon the Hill (William Cosmo Monkhouse Poems)
Part I.A couple old sat o'er the fire,And they were bent and gray;They burned the charcoal for their Lord,Who lived ...
Swift’s Pastoral (Padraic Colum Poems)
A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.Characters:JONATHAN SWIFT and ESTHER VANHOMRIGHESTHERI know the answer: 'tis ingenious.I'm tired ...
Abundance (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
IOnce I had 1000 roses.Literally 1000 roses.I was working for a floristback in the shambling 'Thirtieswhen iced skids of 250 ...
Cul de Sac (Josephine Jacobsen Poems)
In the grassplot's center was a bed of red roses,A circle in a pear; round-eyed and fragrantThe great tame blossoms ...
The Circus-Day Parade (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Oh, the Circus-Day parade! How the bugles played and played!And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes, and neighed,As ...
Unfit (Katharine Tynan Poems)
With younger men he takes his stand, To the recruiting-sergeant nigh,Sees others chosen: lifts a hand In hopes to catch the unwilling ...
The Idiot (John Freeman Poems)
He stands on the kerbWatching the street.He's always watching there,Listening to the beatOf time in the street,Listening to the thronging ...
Cassandra (Louise Bogan Poems)
To me, one silly task is like another.I bare the shambling tricks of lust and pride.This flesh will never give ...
The Wynnes Of Wynhavod. Act V (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
Scene I.The great Hall of Wynhavod House. The walls hung with old portraits, arms, trophies of the chase, and a ...
The Gravedigger (Bliss William Carman Poems)
OH, the shambling sea is a sexton old,And well his work is done.With an equal grave for lord and knave,He ...
A Pasture (Frederic Lawrence Knowles Poems)
"ROUGH pasture where the blackberries grow!- It bears upon its churlish face No sign of beauty, art, or ...
Grizzly (Francis Bret Harte Poems)
Coward of heroic size, In whose lazy muscles lies Strength we fear and yet despise; Savage,—whose relentless tusks Are content ...
Don Quixote (Craven Langstroth Betts Poems)
"GAUNT, rueful knight, on raw-boned, shambling hack, Thy battered morion, shield and rusty spear, Jog ever down the road in ...
No Buyers (Thomas Hardy Poem)
A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs Labours along the street in the rain: With it a ...
The Last Tournament (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament (excerpt) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Ossawatomie (Carl Sandburg Poems)
I DON'T know how he came, shambling, dark, and strong. He stood in the city and told men: My people ...
Hymns Of The Marshes. (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...