The Fruit Shop (Amy Lowell Poem)
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Poems about stool (29 Poems)
The Akond of Swat (Edward Lear Poem)
Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of SWAT? Is he tall or short, or dark or ...
Home Is So Sad (Philip Larkin Poem)
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, Shaped in the comfort of the last to go As ...
The Rhyme of the Three Greybeards (Henry Lawson Poem)
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
Army Headquarters (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ahasuerus Jenkins of the "Operatic Own," Was dowered with a tenor voice of super-Santley tone. His views on equitation were, ...
The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama (Andrew Hudgins Poem)
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
Penmaen Pool (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
For the Visitors' Book at the Inn Who long for rest, who look for pleasure Away from counter, court, or ...
Moonrise (Gerard Manley Hopkins Poem)
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, ...
Casualty (Seamus Heaney Poem)
I He would drink by himself And raise a weathered thumb Towards the high shelf, Calling another rum And blackcurrant, ...
The Minotaur (Ted Hughes Poem)
The mahogany table-top you smashed Had been the broad plank top Of my mother's heirloom sideboard- Mapped with the scars ...
The Weary Blues (Langston Hughes Poem)
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on ...
THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
I. A MASTER of a country school Jump'd up one day from off his stool, Inspired with firm resolve to ...
WEDDING SONG. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall record Who had in this castle his dwelling, Where now ye ...
Dorcas Preaching – Blog Action Day (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We should remember, her story, her acts of faith out of her poverty, her little, meager resources she offers lessons ...
Dorcas Preaching (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Up from the pages, from the town of Joppa the port, overlooking the Mediterranean a disciple shared her witness, her ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Music (Stephen Vincent Benet Poem)
My friend went to the piano; spun the stool A little higher; left his pipe to cool; Picked up a ...
Part 7 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
512. Song-Guid ale keeps the heart aboon (Robert Burns Poem)
Chorus-O gude ale comes and gude ale goes; Gude ale gars me sell my hose, Sell my hose, and pawn ...
Opening the Geode (Julie Hill Alger Poem)
When the molten earth seethed in its whirling cauldron nobody watched the pot from a tall wooden stool set out ...
The French Revolution (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines From his mountains; an ...
Blind Man’s Buff (William Blake Poems)
When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, ...
French Revolution, The (excerpt) (William Blake Poems)
84 Thee the ancientest peer, Duke of Burgundy, rose from the monarch's right hand, red as wines 85 From his ...
The Army Mules (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) (Ezra Pound Poems)
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
Opposites (Katherine Mansfield Poems)
The Half-Soled-Boots-With-Toecaps-Child Walked out into the street And splashed in all the pubbles till She had such shocking feet The ...
Remo: “Drink, Drink, Drink” (Sharon Esther Lampert Poems)
At Quattro Gatti, she is the poet-in-residence: In Barcelona, Piccasso started here, painting A humble sketch of a picket-white fence. ...
We are Transmitters (David Herbert Lawrence Poems)
As we live, we are transmitters of life. And when we fail to transmit life, life fails to flow through ...