The Borough. Letter XIV: Inhabitants Of The Alms-House. Life Of Blaney (George Crabbe Poems)
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
Poems about twenty-one (21 Poems)
The Saga Of Sergeant Scott (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
Private Scott of the Highlanders,Strutted and swanked in the market-place.Each flap and lapel set smooth in place,Buttons polished to mirror ...
Father And Son (Delmore Schwartz Poems)
Father: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Spontaneous as rain, and they compel Explicitness, embarrassed eyes-- Son: Father, you're not ...
Harry Wilmans (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was just turned twenty-one,And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent,Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House."The honor of the flag ...
Walter Simmons (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
My parents thought that I would beAs great as Edison or greater:For as a boy I made balloonsAnd wondrous kites ...
Dockery And Son (Philip Larkin Poem)
'Dockery was junior to you, Wasn't he?' said the Dean. 'His son's here now.' Death-suited, visitant, I nod. 'And do ...
A Game of Fives (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Five little girls, of Five, Four, Three, Two, One: Rolling on the hearthrug, full of tricks and fun. Five rosy ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
A Ramble in St. James’s Park (John Wilmot Poems)
Much wine had passed, with grave discourse Of who fucks who, and who does worse (Such as you usually do ...
The Child Bearers (Anne Sexton Poems)
Jean, death comes close to us all, flapping its awful wings at us and the gluey wings crawl up our ...
Work (Robert William Service Poems)
When twenty-one I loved to dream, And was to loafing well inclined; Somehow I couldn't get up steam To welcome ...
The Sceptic (Robert William Service Poems)
My Father Christmas passed away When I was barely seven. At twenty-one, alack-a-day, I lost my hope of heaven. Yet ...
A Song Of Sixty-Five (Robert William Service Poems)
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one, And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer; ...
The Sightless Man (Robert William Service Poems)
Out of the night a crash, A roar, a rampart of light; A flame that leaped like a lash, Searing ...
Statistics (Carl Sandburg Poems)
NAPOLEON shifted, Restless in the old sarcophagus And murmured to a watchguard: "Who goes there?" "Twenty-one million men, Soldiers, armies, ...
Song (Matthew Prior Poems)
How old may Phyllis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? To answer is no easy task; For ...
Phyllis’s Age (Matthew Prior Poems)
How old may Phyllis be, you ask, Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? To answer is no easy task; For ...
Walter Simmons (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
My parents thought that I would be As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons ...
Harry Wilmans (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House. "The honor ...
Melmillo (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Three and thirty birds there stood In an elder in a wood; Called Melmillo -- flew off three, Leaving thirty ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...