My Own Green Land (Nora Pembroke Poems)
It was in the early morning Of life, and of hope to me,I sat on a grassy hillside Of the Isle beyond ...
Poems about sobered (21 Poems)
Farewell And Defiance To Love (John Clare Poems)
Love and thy vain employs, awayFrom this too oft deluded breast!No longer will I court thy stay,To be my bosom's ...
The Brewing Of Soma (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The fagots blazed, the caldron's smokeUp through the green wood curled;"Bring honey from the hollow oak,Bring milky sap," the brewers ...
The Foreign Drunk (Henry Lawson Poems)
When you get tight in foreign lands You never need go slinking,No female neighbours lift their hands And say "The brute!-he's drinking!"No ...
“The ivy leaves, (behind the shed),” (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
The ivy leaves, (behind the shed),Turned bright and blushed a rosy red.Bit by the frost they sobered down,And now can ...
Love (Raymond Garfield Dandridge Poems)
Invisible, saccharined,Intoxicating stimulant,I drank of you-drank deep of you-Until drunk, yea! untilDrunk, drunk indeed.On sobering I find myselfUnlike the drunkard, ...
Alma Venus! [Excerpt] (Bernard O Dowd Poems)
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
The Cuckoo Wood (Edmund Beale Sargant Poems)
Cuckoo, are you calling me,Or is it a voice of wizardry?In these woodlands I am lost,From glade to glade of ...
The Cowboy’s Prayer (Curley Fletcher Poems)
Out on the Western prairies,While riding after stock,A cowboy met a shepherdA-tending to his flock.The herder asked the cowboyIf he ...
A Plan (Donald Marquis Poems)
YOUTH is the season of revolt; at twenty-fiveWe curse the reigning politicians,Wondering that any man aliveStands for such damnable conditions.Whatever ...
The Kingfisher (Amy Clampitt Poems)
In a year the nightingales were said to be so loud they drowned out slumber, and peafowl strolled screaming beside ...
Robin’s Mistake (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
What do you think Red RobinFound by a mow of hay?Why, a flask brimful of liquor,That the mowers brought that ...
The Owl (Edward Thomas Poems)
Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved;Cold, yet had heat within me that was proofAgainst the North wind; tired, ...
Despondency (Archibald Lampman Poems)
Slow figures in some live remorseless frieze,The approaching days escapeless and unguessed,With mask and shroud impenetrably dressed;Time, whose inexorable destiniesBear ...
The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
Marshall’s Mate (Henry Lawson Poems)
You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- You could have watched the grass scorch brown ...
Jack Dunn of Nevertire (Henry Lawson Poem)
It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done, A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run; ...
To The Dead (Frank Bidart Poem)
What I hope (when I hope) is that we'll see each other again,-- . . . and again reach the ...
The Owl (Edward Thomas Poems)
DOWNHILL I came, hungry, and yet not starved, Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof Against the north ...
At Thirty-Five (Robert William Service Poems)
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
The Whistle Of Sandy McGraw (Robert William Service Poems)
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...