Shakuntala Act V (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT VSCENE -The PALACE.An old Chamberlain, sighing.Chamberlain.ALAS! What a decrepit old age have I attained! -This wand, which I first ...
Poems about urbanity (11 Poems)
The Diplomatic Platypus (Patrick Barrington Poems)
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity.He used to ...
Be Courteous (Hattie Howard Poems)
Ah, yes; why not? Is one more adventitious born Than others--shekels richer, honors fuller, and all that-- That he can pass his ...
Corsica (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
——— A manly race Of unsubmitting spirit, wise and brave; Who still through bleeding ages struggled hard To hold a ...
Affable Alf (C J Dennis Poems)
Have you heard the inscrutable mutable Alf,The mannerly man with the silvery tongue? Ever ...
Good Temper (Charles Lamb Poems)
In whatsoever place residesGood Temper, she o'er all presides;The most obdurate heart she guides.Even Anger yields unto her power,And sullen ...
A Country Life (Randall Jarrell Poem)
A bird that I don't know, Hunched on his light-pole like a scarecrow, Looks sideways out into the wheat The ...
Desires that you can only tame to know (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
The Song of Right and Wrong (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
Old King Cole (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
In Tilbury Town did Old King Cole A wise old age anticipate, Desiring, with his pipe and bowl, No Khan's ...
Lancelot (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...