A Poor Joke (Edward George Dyson Poems)
'NO, you can't count me in, boys; I'm off it-I'm jack of them practical jokes;They give neither pleasure nor profit,And ...
Poems about tougher (21 Poems)
The Oak (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What gnarled stretch, what depth of shade, is his! There needs no crown to mark the forest's king;How in his leaves ...
Father William (Lewis Carroll Poems)
"You are old, father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on ...
Corporal Schnapps (Henry Clay Work Poems)
Mine heart ish proken into little pits,I tells you friend what for;Mine schweet-heart, von coot patriotic kirl,She trives me off ...
The Mountain Splitter (Henry Lawson Poems)
HE WORKS in the glen where the waratah grows, And the gums and the ashes are tall,'Neath cliffs that re-echo the ...
“Johnson’s Boy” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The world is turned ag'in' me, And people says, "They guessThat nothin' else is in me But pure maliciousness!"I git the blame ...
Crisis Counselor (C.J. Sage Poems)
She was a coat of armsseasoned for the job -- toughand polished like tortoise shell.When the women were tougher,she'd tuck ...
The Princess (part 5) (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poems)
"Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,We stumbled on a stationary voice,And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from the palace' ...
The Great Boat Race (E W Bowling Poems)
1. HAWKSHAW 3rd Trinity. 5. KINGLAKE 3rd Trinity. 2. PIGOTT Corpus. ...
A Tale Of The Rockies (Billy Bennett Poems)
Here is a tale of the Rockies,And of Rockies I know quite a few;There's the mint rock, the flint rock, ...
Homesick (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
It's tough when you are homesick in a strange and distant place; It's anguish when you're hungry for ...
To A Lady (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
FLOWERS to the fair: To you these flowers I bring,And strive to greet you with an earlier spring.Flowers sweet, and ...
Some Rump (A P Herbert Poems)
This ten-year Parliament that sprang, they say,From far-off causes and a different day,This jaded, old, unrepresenting 'rump',That has no destination ...
Women For Westminster (A P Herbert Poems)
Send us more women, voter, to watch below Big Ben.More Rathbones, Tates, and Summerskills, more Megans should be heard.They work-they ...
You Are Old, Father William (Lewis Carroll Poem)
"You are old, Father william," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly ...
For A Row Of Laurel Shrubs (David Wagoner Poems)
They don't want to be your hedge, Your barrier, your living wall, the no-go Go-between between your property And the ...
The Tortoise in Eternity (Elinor Wylie Poems)
Within my house of patterned horn I sleep in such a bed As men may keep before they're born And ...
The Princess (part 5) (Lord Alfred Tennyson Poems)
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
Thing Language (Jack Spicer Poems)
This ocean, humiliating in its disguises Tougher than anything. No one listens to poetry. The ocean Does not mean to ...
Jack (Carl Sandburg Poems)
JACK was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun. He worked thirty years on the railroad, ten hours a day, and his hands ...
A Boy Named Sue (Shel Silverstein Poems)
Well, my daddy left home when I was three, and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this ...