Cup Couplets (C J Dennis Poems)
Out of great wisdom, long stored up,I would write me a rune of the Melbourne Cup.Out of experience, grave and ...
Poems about smug (21 Poems)
John Galsworthy (C J Dennis Poems)
Not for vague honors, not for treacherous power He lived and toiled thro' this, his earthy span;But to uphold and ...
The Song Of The Builder (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I sink my piers to the solid rock, And I send my steel to the sky,And I pile up the ...
Ambition (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
If you would rise above the throngAnd seek the crown of fame, You must do more than drift alongAnd merely ...
Melbourne Sonnets:III An Address In Reply (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
YOU modern men, purveyors of perfection,Whose blazoned gifts from catalogue andhoardingRefurbish hackneyed eulogies, recordingYour stock's worth and all rivalry's subjection ...
The Sad Man (Alfred Lichtenstein Poems)
No, I have no capacity for life.I could be considered foolish--Today I am not going to the restaurant.I am after ...
Failures (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
'Tis better to have tried in vain, Sincerely striving for a goal, Than to have lived upon the plain An ...
Preparedness (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Right must not live in idleness, Nor dwell in smug content; It must be strong, against the throng Of foes, ...
Balbus (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell you the story of Balbus, You know, him as builded a wall; I'll tell you the reason he ...
Mithridates (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
I cannot spare water or wine, Tobacco-leaf, or poppy, or rose; From the earth-poles to the Line, All between that ...
The Bistro Styx (Rita Dove Poem)
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
Lines Written In The Belief That The Ancient Roman Festival Of The Dead Was Called Ambarvalia (Rupert Brooke Poem)
Swings the way still by hollow and hill, And all the world's a song; "She's far," it sings me, "but ...
Dream Song 17: Muttered Henry:â?”Lord of matter, thus (John Berryman Poem)
Muttered Henry:â?"Lord of matter, thus: upon some more unquiet spirit knock, my madnesses have cease. All the quarter astonishes a ...
Poet And Peer (Robert William Service Poems)
They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine; The banquet hall was fit and fine, With gracing it a Lord; ...
What Curious Dresses All Men Wear (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
What curious dresses all men wear! The walker you met in a brown study, The President smug in rotogravure, The ...
The Battle Of The Bulge (Robert William Service Poems)
This year an ocean trip I took, and as I am a Scot And like to get my money's worth ...
The Hinterland (Robert William Service Poems)
You speak to me, but does your speech With truest truth your thought convey? I listen to your words and ...
The Sloth (Theodore Roethke Poems)
In moving-slow he has no Peer. You ask him something in his Ear, He thinks about it for a Year; ...
The Hangman’s Great Hands (Kenneth Patchen Poems)
And all that is this day. . . The boy with cap slung over what had been a face. .. ...
Salutation (Ezra Pound Poems)
O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable, I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun, I have seen ...
The Widening Spell Of Leaves (Larry Levis Poems)
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...