Bumboats (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
I've had a whirl at games of chance From Bombay 'round to Cork,I've sensed the ways of high finance ...
Poems about sharks (21 Poems)
The Loss Of The Birkenhead (Francis Hastings Charles Doyle Poems)
Right on our flank the crimson sun went down, The deep sea rolled around in dark repose,When, like the wild ...
The African Boy (Edward Jerningham Poems)
AH, tell me, little mournful MOOR,Why still you linger on the shore?Haste to your play-mates, haste away,Nor loiter here with ...
You and I (C J Dennis Poems)
They say the eagle is a bird That sees some splendid sightsWhen he soars high into the sky Upon his ...
The Poet Orders His Tomb (Edgar Bowers Poems)
I summon up Panofskv from his bed Among the famous dead To build a tomb which, since I ...
The Token (Charles Dibdin Poems)
The breeze was fresh, the ship was in stays,Each breaker hush'd, the shore a haze,When Jack, no more on duty ...
To Mrs. Professor In Defense Of My Cat’s Honor And Not Only (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
My valiant helper, a small-sized tigerSleeps sweetly on my desk, by the computer,Unaware that you insult his tribe.Cats play with ...
Distrust Appearances (C J Dennis Poems)
He came into the bird-shop where I stood -- A hulking giant, monumental, grim,A paragon of muscular manhood. "What is ...
Should Auld Acquaintance . . .? (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Fancy you knowin' old Bill Barley — I haven't seen 'im since I don't know when;Him an' me made a ...
Plague Of Dead Sharks (Alan Dugan Poems)
Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes? The wading, wintered pack-beasts of the feet slough off, in spring, the ...
Curios (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
I've 'ad, said Dan, "a sight o' curios,But where they've gone, Lord knows!The junk I've packed around, alive an' dead,The ...
Ode to West Australia (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Land of Forests, fleas and flies,Blighted hopes and blighted eyes,Art thou hell in earth's disguise,Westralia?Art thou some volcanic blastBy volcanoes ...
Just After The War (Anonymous Americas Poems)
O! I am a conscriptO! how I do wishThat I had stayed away up NorthAnd kept out of the "milish."I ...
Winter Grapes (Andreas Embeirikos Poems)
They took away her toys and lover. Well then she bowed her head and almost died. But the thirteen destinies ...
Clerihew – Marx (Edmund Clerihew Bentley Poems)
Karl MarxWas completely wrapped up in his sharks.The poor creatures seriously missed himWhilst he was attacking the capitalist system.(Edmund Clerihew ...
Endymion: Book III (John Keats Poem)
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Middle Passage (Robert Hayden Poem)
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Cartoon Physics, Part 1 (Nick Flynn Poem)
Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know that the universe is ever-expanding, inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies swallowed by galaxies, ...
The Voice of the Lobster (Lewis Carroll Poem)
''Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my ...
The Hemp (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
Nine From Eight (Sidney Lanier Poems)
I was drivin' my two-mule waggin, With a lot o' truck for sale, Towards Macon, to git some baggin' (Which ...