The Hammers (Amy Lowell Poem)
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
The diggings were just in their glory when Alister Cameron came, With recommendations, he told me, from friends and a ...
The old Jimmy Woodser comes into the bar Unwelcomed, unnoticed, unknown, Too old and too odd to be drunk with, ...
O I dreamt I shore in a shearing shed and it was a dream of joy For every one of ...
Oh, I never felt so wretched, and things never looked so blue Since the days I gulped the physic that ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
It was in the old days, When she used to hang out at a place Called Club Zombie, A black ...
The youngest poet down the shelves was fumbling In a dim library, just behind the chair From which the ancient ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
The flag that hung half-mast today Seemed animate with being As if it knew for who it flew And will ...
Show me the way to the next whisky bar Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why Show me the ...
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
GUID speed and furder to you, Johnie, Guid health, hale han's, an' weather bonie; Now, when ye're nickin down fu' ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
THERE was five Carlins in the South, They fell upon a scheme, To send a lad to London town, To ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
ah, christ, what a CREW: more poetry, always more P O E T R Y . if it doesn't come, ...
Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the morn That Christ our Saviour was born! Earth's Redeemer, to save us from all ...
All hail to Mr Murphy, he is a hero brave, That has crossed the mighty Atlantic wave, For what purpose ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer. What hast thou done to ...
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...
In a little town in Devonshire, in the mellow September moonlight, A gentleman passing along a street saw a pitiful ...
I know that he told how I snared his soul With a snare which bled him to death. And all ...
I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and ...
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
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