Tale XIV (George Crabbe Poems)
THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE.A serious Toyman in the city dwelt,Who much concern for his religion felt;Reading, he changed his tenets, ...
Poems about tradesmen (21 Poems)
The Borough. Letter VI: Professions–Law (George Crabbe Poems)
TRADES and Professions--these are themes the Muse,Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;But to our Borough they in truth ...
The Borough. Letter XVI: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Benlow (George Crabbe Poems)
SEE! yonder badgeman with that glowing face,A meteor shining in this sober place!Vast sums were paid, and many years were ...
Tale XII (George Crabbe Poems)
'SQUIRE THOMAS; OR THE PRECIPITATE CHOICE.'Squire Thomas flatter'd long a wealthy Aunt,Who left him all that she could give or ...
The Borough. Letter VIII: Trades (George Crabbe Poems)
OF manufactures, trade, inventions rare,Steam-towers and looms, you'd know our Borough's share -'Tis small: we boast not these rich subjects ...
The Story Of Ill May Day, In The Reign Of King Henry VIII (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
The Story of Ill May Day, in the reign of king Henry the Eighth, and why it was so called; ...
Pan In Wall Street (Edmund Clarence Stedman Poems)
JUST where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations; Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont ...
What Grandfather Said (Alfred Noyes Poems)
(_An epistle from a narrow-minded old gentleman to a young artist ofsuperior intellect and intense realism._)Your thoughts are for the ...
Jenny’s Bawbee (Alexander Boswell Poems)
I met four chaps yon birks amang, Wi' hanging lugs and faces lang; I spier'd at neighbour Bauldy ...
Song For The Heroes (Alexander Comfort Poems)
I wonder sometimes if the soldiers lyingunder the soil, wrapped in their coats like beggarssleeping under an arch, their hands ...
Our Town Awakes (C J Dennis Poems)
Six o'clock. From the railway yard The engine toots; careering hard, A milk-cart rattles by and stops; ...
Yeshwant Rao (Arun Kolatkar Poems)
Are you looking for a god? I know a good one. His name is Yeshwant Rao and he's one of ...
Sea Cook (Bill Adams Poems)
There ain't no "Tradesman's Entrance" wrote up above his door,Like you sees on stylish houses on the stylish streets ashore,So's ...
Our Daily Bread (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
Give us this day our daily bread! O prayer By Jesus taught, thou hast become a cry ...
TO AN OLD DANISH SONG-BOOK (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside, While the sullen gales of autumn Shake the windows. The ungrateful ...
MAIDEN WISHES. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
WHAT pleasure to me A bridegroom would be! When married we are, They call us mamma. No need then to ...
Nicaise (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
Camping in a kitchen (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
To say we've done it all before is not to bend the truth and though we've lost our youth the ...
To Stella, Who Collected and Transcribed His Poems (Jonathan Swift Poems)
As, when a lofty pile is raised, We never hear the workmen praised, Who bring the lime, or place the ...
January, 1795 (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty ...
Morgan’s Dog (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Morgan the drover explained, As he drank from his battered quart-pot, Many a slut I have trained; This is the ...