The Star of Australasia (Henry Lawson Poem)
We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; Better a shred of a deep-dyed ...
Poems about slum (21 Poems)
The Captain of the Push (Henry Lawson Poem)
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
Victory (Henry Lawson Poem)
The schools marched in procession in happiness and pride, The city bands before them, the soldiers marched beside; Oh, starched ...
Madness (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Sara Teasdale) The lonely farm, the crowded street, The palace and the slum, Give welcome to my silent feet ...
This country nurtured hope… (Godfrey Mutiso Gorry Poem)
This country nurtured hope decayed, The politician cruises on a 4WD guzzler, The thief. Feeling the base of his belly. ...
The Logical Vegetarian (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
"Why shouldn't I have a purely vegetarian drink? Why shouldn't I take vegetables in their highest form, so to speak? ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
The Burglar Of Babylon (Elizabeth Bishop Poem)
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (John Ashbery Poem)
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
The Lovers of the Poor (Gwendolyn Brooks Poems)
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
The Spirit Of The Unborn Babe (Robert William Service Poems)
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane, Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the ...
Worms (Robert William Service Poems)
Worms finer for fishing you couldn't be wishing; I delved them dismayed from the velvety sod; The rich loam upturning ...
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 ...
A Rolling Stone (Robert William Service Poems)
There's sunshine in the heart of me, My blood sings in the breeze; The mountains are a part of me, ...
The Volunteer (Robert William Service Poems)
Sez I: My Country calls? Well, let it call. I grins perlitely and declines wiv thanks. Go, let 'em plaster ...
Cripple (Carl Sandburg Poems)
ONCE when I saw a cripple Gasping slowly his last days with the white plague, Looking from hollow eyes, calling ...
The Flying Gang (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
And I worked my way to the end, and I Was the head of the "Flying Gang". 'Twas a chosen ...
A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor (Ogden Nash Poems)
The hands of the clock were reaching high In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid ...
Immrama (Paul Muldoon Poems)
I, too, have trailed my father's spirit From the mud-walled cabin behind the mountain Where he was born and bred, ...
Time Stands Still over Govandi Station (John Matthew Poems)
A kite flutters, On a high tension wire - Against a stark blue sky. Beggar and old mother huddle On ...