Ode to the end of Summer (Phyllis McGinley Poems)
Summer, adieu Adieu gregarious season.Goodbye, 'revoir, farewell.Now day comes late; now chillier blows the breeze onForsaken beach and boarded-up hotel.Now wild ...
Poems about tickles (21 Poems)
The Photograph (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poems)
See dis pictyah in my han'? Dat's my gal; Ain't she purty? goodness lan'! Huh name Sal. Dat's de very way she be-- Kin' o' ...
Humor (Laura Benet Poems)
A fairy dancesIn upland pastures,Picking tart crabapples,Swinging low;Twisted and green,Elfin-mouthed, lean,His feet may be chainedThey are never slow.He slyly peeps ...
Catullus Imitated. Ep. . (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
Before her Husband, Lesbia calls me Names,And at the Lewdness of the Town exclaims;This tickles the poor Cuckold to the ...
Backwardness of the Present Spring Accounted For, May 5th, 1782 (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
Last Wen'sday, when Jupiter rose to survey The annual return and procession of May, Concluding, the lady with Venus and ...
Ginger’s Cobber (C J Dennis Poems)
'E wears perjarmer soots an' cleans 'is teeth, That's wot I reads. It fairly knocked me flat,"Me soljer cobber, be ...
Rabelais (Alexander Anderson Poems)
J'aime Monsieur Francois Rabelais, that Rough, shoulder-shrugging, laughing Frenchman,Who struts about, broad, red, and fat, With humour for his constant ...
Pilot Cove (C J Dennis Poems)
Young friend, 'e sez . . . Young friend! Well, spare me days! Yeh'd think I wus 'is own white ...
Affable Alf (C J Dennis Poems)
Have you heard the inscrutable mutable Alf,The mannerly man with the silvery tongue? Ever ...
Artemus Ward (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I like Artemus Ward, that quaint Rough, sturdy, antiquated Showman,Who travell'd Yankee-land to paint The social ills in man and ...
Little Miss Six O’Clock (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
JUST at the edge of the night and the morning,Little Miss Six O'clock comes to my bed,A sweet little laugh ...
The Boy Mind (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
WISH I was only as bright as my boy,Wish I could think of the things that he springs;His is a ...
The Nurse-Life Wheat (Fulke Greville Poems)
THE nurse-life wheat, within his green husk growing, Flatters our hope and tickles our desire, Nature's true riches in sweet ...
Lead Soldiers (Amy Lowell Poem)
The nursery fire burns brightly, crackling in cheerful little explosions and trails of sparks up the back of the chimney. ...
LILY’S MENAGERIE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
Birches (Robert Frost Poem)
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think ...
If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love (Dylan Thomas Poems)
If I were tickled by the rub of love, A rooking girl who stole me for her side, Broke through ...
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio (Carl Sandburg Poems)
IT'S a jazz affair, drum crashes and cornet razzes The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts. The banjo ...
Let Love Go On (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LET it go on; let the love of this hour be poured out till all the answers are made, the ...
Towards The Imminent Days (Section 4) (Les Murray Poems)
In my aunt's house, the milk jug's beaded crochet cover tickles the ear. We've eaten boiled things with butter. Pie ...
Last Instructions to a Painter (Andrew Marvell Poems)
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...