Clothes (Jean Starr Untermeyer Poems)
Since the earliest days I have dressed myselfIn fanciful clothes;Trying to satisfy a whispering insistence.There was so much I dared ...
Poems about tricky (21 Poems)
Combat Report (John Sleigh Pudney Poems)
"Just then I saw the bloody Hun" You saw the Hun? You, light and easy,Carving the soundless daylight. "I was ...
When Sadness Fills A Journey (John Stanier Waller Poems)
When sadness fills a journeyThere is no last remorseBetween accepted endingAnd the final turn we passTo other sights or heroesOr ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poems)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together,Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand,Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, altitudes,High, make ...
Custer: Book Second (Ella Wheeler Wilcox Poems)
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
Chomei At Toyama (Basil Bunting Poems)
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
Cackle (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, my brothers do not wrangle. When the sweets of office dangle At a most inviting angle ...
Yarra Flats (C J Dennis Poems)
A spieler came to Yarra Glen upon the Yarra flats;He wore a suit of noisy cheeks and something cute in ...
Watching (Emily Chubbuck Judson Poems)
"Sleep, love, sleep! The dusty day is done. Lo! from afar the freshening breezes sweep Wide over groves of balm, ...
The Listener (C J Dennis Poems)
Why, certainly. Let's listen to the cricket. Oh, I'm quite keen. Test match, I understand.At... What's that? Oh, Australia's at ...
Timothy Winters (Charles Causley Poems)
Timothy Winters comes to schoolWith eyes as wide as a football pool,Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:A blitz of ...
A Reckless Cowboy (Frank Maynard Poems)
I am a reckless cowboy, the prairie is my home,At the early age of sixteen I first began to roam,I ...
Snarleyow (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
Catch (Robert Francis Poem)
Two boys uncoached are tossing a poem together, Overhand, underhand, backhand, sleight of hand, everyhand, Teasing with attitudes, latitudes, interludes, ...
MID-DECEMBER (Gerald England Poem)
A full moon shines over the morning frost; the lanes are full of late-fallen leaves; walking across the mulch is ...
Sam’s Racehorse (Marriott Edgar Poems)
When Sam Small retired from the Army He'd a pension of ninepence a day, And seven pounds fourteen and twopence ...
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 ...
The Frog Prince (Anne Sexton Poems)
Frau Doktor, Mama Brundig, take out your contacts, remove your wig. I write for you. I entertain. But frogs come ...
Spiders (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Is the spider a monster in miniature? His web is a cruel stair, to be sure, Designed artfully, cunningly placed, ...
Dunce (Robert William Service Poems)
At school I never gained a prize, Proving myself the model ass; Yet how I watched the wistful eyes, And ...
Wind Song (Carl Sandburg Poems)
LONG ago I learned how to sleep, In an old apple orchard where the wind swept by counting its money ...