The Haunch Of Venison (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARETHANKS, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatterNever rang'd in a forest, or ...
Poems about sloven (21 Poems)
Rural Morning (John Clare Poems)
Soon as the twilight through the distant mistIn silver hemmings skirts the purple east,Ere yet the sun unveils his smiles ...
Advice, To Have One’s Conversation and Demeanour Always According To The Rules Of The Gospel (Rees Prichard Poems)
Be thy demeanour of the Christian sort,Be it obliging, affable, and right,In ev'ry place to which thou may'st resort,As is ...
Probatur Aliter (Jonathan Swift Poems)
A long-ear'd beast, and a field-house for cattle,Among the coals doth often rattle.A long-ear'd beast, a bird that prates,The bridegrooms' ...
A Letter To Dr. Helsham (Jonathan Swift Poems)
SIR, Pray discruciate what follows.The dullest beast, and gentleman's liquor,When young is often due to the vicar,The dullest of beasts, and ...
Robin And Harry (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Robin to beggars with a curse,Throws the last shilling in his purse;And when the coachman comes for pay,The rogue must ...
To Sir John Mennis, (John Denham Poems)
BEING INVITED FROM CALAIS TO BOULOGNE, TO EAT A PIG.All on a weeping Monday, With a fat vulgarian sloven, Little admiral John To ...
Country Summer (Leonie Adams Poems)
Now the rich cherry, whose sleek wood,And top with silver petals tracedLike a strict box its gems encased,Has spilt from ...
Shock-headed Peter (Heinrich Hoffmann Poems)
Just look at him! there he stands,With his nasty hair and hands.See! his nails are never cut;They are grimed as ...
The Spagnoletto. Act I (Emma Lazarus Poems)
THE SPAGNOLETTO.DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.DON TOMMASO MANZANO.LUCA, servant to ...
Madge Linsey, Or The Three Souls (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
Madge Linsey at the well raised the deep waters, Brimmed her brass bucket full, went from her place. Loose hung ...
Christmas Cards (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
ITO THE GROCERY BOYBefore you send me up that card With rime and diction far from subtle,Hear what a now ...
Old Town Types No. 12 – Mrs Munn, The Nurse (C J Dennis Poems)
Mrs Munn, the midwife - Mother Munn they called her --Wallowed in the world's woes; sickness ne'er appalled her. She ...
The Athiest (Cale Young Rice Poems)
Over a scurf of rocks the tide Wanders inward far and wide, Lifting the sea-weed's sloven hair, ...
The Old Issue (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets, "Many feet have worn it and the road is old ...
An American (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
If the Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what ...
I Sing the Body Electric. (Walt Whitman Poems)
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
Cinderella (Robert William Service Poems)
Cinderella in the street In a ragged gown, Sloven slippers on her feet, Shames our tidy town; Harsh her locks ...
Vanity Fair (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Through frost-thick weather This witch sidles, fingers crooked, as if Caught in a hazardous medium that might Merely by its ...
Spinster (Sylvia Plath Poems)
Now this particular girl During a ceremonious april walk With her latest suitor Found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck ...
On a Bust (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at ...