The Stones of Gosh (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, here is a tale of the Glugs of Gosh, In the end of the year umteen;Of the Glugs of ...
Poems about tonic (21 Poems)
A Modern Apostle III (Constance Naden Poems)
ALAN had preached his sermon--grave, devout, Yet full of lightnings and electric shocks For tender souls who reckoned even doubt ...
Christmas Cards (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
ITO THE GROCERY BOYBefore you send me up that card With rime and diction far from subtle,Hear what a now ...
Mates (Ada Cambridge Poems)
It boots not to retrace the path To ages dim and hoar, When Man, at the domestic hearth, ...
Faith’s Resurgance (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
IIn the Indian dawnMany a long, voluminous fold,Vicious blue and viscous gold,Twenty living feet of hell,Glides a snake into the ...
Doctor Goosegrease (Billy Bennett Poems)
Everybody knows me, Dr. Goosegrease, M.D. All the best paying patients, I've got 'em. Harley Street's my abode, No. 6 ...
The Lady Doctor (Constance Naden Poems)
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
Cui Bono (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Oh! wind that whistles o'er thorns and thistles, Of this fruitful earth like a goblin elf;Why should he labour to ...
The Largest Life (Archibald Lampman Poems)
II lie upon my bed and hear and see.The moon is rising through the glistening trees;And momently a great and ...
Rhymed Ribaldry (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
We can claim without elation or immodest fabricationThat the genius of our nation is embodied in our camps,And futurity's summation ...
Life (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
To see beauty in all, is to lift our own SoulUp to loftier heights than do chose who aspireThrough culpable ...
Smiles. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Smile a little, smile a littleAs you go along,Not alone when life is pleasant,But when things go wrong.Care delights to ...
No Brigadier throughout the Year (Emily Dickinson Poem)
No Brigadier throughout the Year So civic as the Jay -- A Neighbor and a Warrior too With shrill felicity ...
Smiles (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
Smile a little, smile a little, As you go along, Not alone when life is pleasant, But when things go ...
Custer (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
Preparation (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
We must not force events, but rather make The heart soil ready for their coming, as The earth spreads carpets ...
Stretcher Case (Siegfried Sassoon Poems)
He woke; the clank and racket of the train Kept time with angry throbbings in his brain. Then for a ...
Power (Adrienne Rich Poems)
Living in the earth-deposits of our history Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth one bottle ...
The Man Against the Sky (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
Big Hair (David Lehman Poems)
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie tear, wanting to look like a moll in a Chandler novel. Dinner, ...
Gin (Philip Levine Poems)
The first time I drank gin I thought it must be hair tonic. My brother swiped the bottle from a ...