In Memory Of My Mother (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see You walking down ...
Poems about shops (31 Poems)
Lichtenberg (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack-- They start those awful voices o' nights That ...
Stone Shadows (David St. John Poem)
For an entire year she dressed in all the shades Of ash - the gray of old paper; the deeper, ...
Warning (Jenny Joseph Poem)
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit ...
V (Tony Harrison Poem)
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Observation Car (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and ...
Freedoms Plow (Langston Hughes Poem)
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
he and the hilltown (Rg Gregory Poem)
when they look into his mind they find a hill town somewhat surprised they go off to their learned books ...
shaw and jung (Rg Gregory Poem)
shaw had the gift of the crab how he took the straight idea and scuttled with it sideways marking sand ...
in search of milk and paradise (Rg Gregory Poem)
heeley (sheffield) autumn 1988 dodging the broken bottles dog-shit the pavement spew i wheel my young son matthew through the ...
from crossing the line (Rg Gregory Poem)
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
The City of the Dead XX (Khalil Gibran Poem)
Yesterday I drew myself from the noisome throngs and proceeded into the field until I reached a knoll upon which ...
Laypeople (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Laypeople, like you and me, upon them is our faith, our hope not from the royal priesthood, the ancient bloodlines ...
The discreet collector (Eugene Field Poem)
Down south there is a curio-shop Unknown to many men; Thereat do I intend to stop When I am south ...
The Avaricious Wife And Tricking Gallant (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
The Tradesman and the Scholar (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Citizen of mighty Pelf, But much a Blockhead, in himself Disdain'd a Man of shining Parts, Master of Sciences ...
The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Elegy XVI: On His Mistress (John Donne Poem)
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
The Pig (Roald Dahl Poem)
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
I haven’t told my garden yet (Emily Dickinson Poems)
I haven't told my garden yet -- Lest that should conquer me. I haven't quite the strength now To break ...
On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
The Song against Grocers (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
Prayer (Richard Crashaw Poem)
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
Westgate-On-Sea (John Betjeman Poem)
Hark, I hear the bells of Westgate, I will tell you what they sigh, Where those minarets and steeples Prick ...
The Licorice Fields at Pontefract (John Betjeman Poem)
In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming ...
Christmas (John Betjeman Poem)
The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night Has caught ...
Up At A Villa- Down In The City (Robert Browning Poem)
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
Breaking and Entering (Ralph Angel Poem)
Many setups. At least as many falls. Winter is paralyzing the country, but not here. Here, the boys are impersonating ...
The Sale of Saint Thomas (Lascelles Abercrombie Poem)
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...