Vignette – XVIII (Matilda Betham Poems)
_Written jointly with a particular Friend, after a conversationsimilar to the subject, with the Damon of the Story_. --------Believing love was ...
Poems about slouching (21 Poems)
Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ACADEMIC POEM1829-1879Read at the Commencement Dinner of the Alumni of HarvardUniversity, June 25, 1879.WHILE fond, sad memories all around ...
The Bull (Ralph Hodgson Poems)
See an old unhappy bull,Sick in soul and body both,Slouching in the undergrowthOf the forest beautiful,Banished from the herd he ...
Asses (Padraic Colum Poems)
"I KNOW where I'd getAn ass that would do,If I had the moneyA pound or two."Said a ragged manTo my ...
At The Pantomime (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
THE house was crammed from roof to floor,Heads piled on heads at every door;Half dead with August's seething heatI crowded ...
Spring Has Come (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
INTRA MUROSTHE sunbeams, lost for half a year,Slant through my pane their morning rays;For dry northwesters cold and clear,The east ...
Canadians (Ivor Gurney Poems)
We marched, and saw a company of CanadiansTheir coats weighed eighty pounds at least, we saw themFaces infinitely grimed in, ...
A Modern Apostle V (Constance Naden Poems)
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
Skeeta ( An Old Servant’s Tale ) (Barcroft Henry Boake Poems)
Our Skeeta was married, our Skeeta! the tomboy and pet of the ...
Fish (D H Lawrence Poems)
FISH, oh Fish,So little matters!Whether the waters rise and cover the earthOr whether the waters wilt in the hollow places,All ...
Mister Dwiggins (Edwin Ford Piper Poems)
"Bill Dwiggins had been Billy thirty years,A boyish name which piqued his clever wife,As if her man were ticketed light-weightOut ...
Heat (Archibald Lampman Poems)
From plains that reel to southward, dim,The road runs by me white and bare;Up the steep hill it seems to ...
The Christmas Spirit (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
IT'S HO for the holly and laughter and kisses,It "s ho for the mistletoe bough in the hall!Was ever a ...
The Charge Of The Bread Brigade (Ezra Pound Poems)
Half a loaf, half a loaf,Half a loaf? Urn-hum?Down through the vale of gloomSlouched the ten million,Onward th' 'ungry blokes,Crackin' ...
Sonnet CLXII: “If it has been the misery of my fate” (George Henry Boker Poems)
If it has been the misery of my fate To mix too closely with the knave and fool, In these ...
London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Consolation (Billy Collins Poem)
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
The Flight Of The Duchess (Robert Browning Poem)
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
The Ballad Of The Northern Lights (Robert William Service Poems)
One of the Down and Out--that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare! Stare and shrink--say! you wouldn't think that ...
The Walkers (Robert William Service Poems)
(He speaks.) Walking, walking, oh, the joy of walking! Swinging down the tawny lanes with head held high; Striding up ...
The Death Of Marie Toro (Robert William Service Poems)
We're taking Marie Toro to her home in Père-La-Chaise; We're taking Marie Toro to her last resting-place. Behold! her hearse ...