The Proud Poet (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Shaemas O Sheel) One winter night a Devil came and sat upon my bed, His eyes were full of ...
(For Shaemas O Sheel) One winter night a Devil came and sat upon my bed, His eyes were full of ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and ...
THE FAIRY TEMPLE; OR, OBERON'S CHAPEL DEDICATED TO MR JOHN MERRIFIELD, COUNSELLOR AT LAW RARE TEMPLES THOU HAST SEEN, I ...
A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs Labours along the street in the rain: With it a ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
Shall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake, a pasty Syrian with a few words of English ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev'ry band. Brandy no ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career Lord Lundy from his earliest years Was ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
WHEN Guilford good our pilot stood An' did our hellim thraw, man, Ae night, at tea, began a plea, Within ...
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love. All pray in their distress: And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. ...
Here lies a bloke who's just gone West, A Number One Australian; He took his gun and did his best ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
In Rotterdam I'm going to speak about the state of poetry on a panel with a Pole and a Turk. ...
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