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The Swanks of Gosh (C J Dennis Poems)

Come mourn with me for the land of Gosh, Oh, weep with me for the luckless GlugsOf the land of ...

An Election Ball, In Poetical Letters From Mr. Inkle, A Freeman Of Bath, To His Wife At Glocester Le (Christopher Anstey Poems)

Mr. Inkle to Mrs. Dinah Inkle, at Glocester Containing A slight Sketch of a travel'd Man--Continuation of the Ball--An Affair ...

Tecumseh To General Harrison (Charles Mair Poems)

TECUMSEH….Once this mighty continent was ours,And the Great Spirit made it for our use.He knew no boundaries, so had we ...

To Jeoffry His Cat (Christopher Smart Poems)

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...

The Lover’s Complaint (Elizabeth Scot Poems)

ME , from the source of every comfort torn,Condemn'd in pensive solitude to mourn,Me, a devoted prey to pain and ...

An Old Master (C J Dennis Poems)

We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...

The Ferryman (Emile Verhaeren Poems)

The ferryman, a green reed 'twixt his teeth,With hand on oar, against the current strongHad rowed and rowed so long.But ...

Ballade Of A Moss-Grown Symbol (Bert Leston Taylor Poems)

I much esteem the rubber-stamp cartoons, Symbols of paleozoic pedigree --Age-battered emblems that for moons and moonsHave roused ...

The Snowfall (Franz Werfel Poems)

Oh the slow fall of snow,Its unending blanketing swirl!Yet my mind's eye was giving shapeTo what couldn't be kept hidden,That ...

Elegy (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)

Since I lost you, my darling, the sky has come near, And I am of it, the small sharp stars ...

The Great Black Heron (Denise Levertov Poem)

Since I stroll in the woods more often than on this frequented path, it's usually trees I observe; but among ...

The Farewell XXVIII (Khalil Gibran Poem)

And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...

Researching (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Above the noise in the room below the sound of the television, the game, the laughter of our five-year old ...

Crouched in the blackberry bramble (Raymond A. Foss Poem)

Surrounded by prickers, thorns tugging on my coat, my jeans lowering myself to the dark small fruit gathering in, berry ...

Under Siege (Mahmoud Darwish Poem)

Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...

Rangipo Desert (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)

Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...

Jubilate Agno (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving ...

Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 4 (Christopher Smart Poems)

For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...

from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 (Christopher Smart Poems)

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving ...

For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)