Pershing at the Front (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The General came in a new tin hatTo the shell-torn front where the war was at;With a faithful Aide at ...
Arthur Guiterman Poems (28 Poems)
The Legend Of The First Cam-u-el: An Arabian Apologue (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Across the sands of Syria,Or possibly Algeria,Or some benighted neighborhood of barrenness and drouth,There came the Prophet Samu-u-elUpon the Only ...
Rags and Robes (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Hark, hark!The dogs do bark;Beggars are coming to town:Some in rags,Some in tags,And some in velvet gowns!Coming, coming always!Crowding into ...
Ragnarok {The Twilight OF The Gods} (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
HO! Heimdal sounds the Gjallar-horn: The hosts of Hel rush forth And Fenris rages redly From his shackles in the ...
Going to Dover (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Leg over legAs the dog went to Dover;When he came to a stile,Jump he went over.Perhaps you wouldn't see it ...
The Passionate Suburbanite To His Love (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Commute with me, my Love, and be merry;How vain in the City to dwellWhen apple-trees blow in Dobbs' FerryAnd lilacs ...
Radiolatry (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The worst of all idolatorsAre zealous radiolatersWho wreck the peace of erstwhile happy homesWith drool of variometers,Detectors, galvanometers,Antennae, switches, batteries ...
He Leads Us Still (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Dare we despair? Through all the nights and days Of lagging war he kept his ...
Strictly Germ-proof (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up; They looked upon ...
Heritage (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
This is the land that we love; here our fathers found refuge,Here are the grooves of their plows and the ...
Our Suburb (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Our Garden Spot is always bright and pretty(Of course it's rather soggy when it rains),And only thirty minutes from the ...
The Great Tyrannosaurus (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The Great TyrannosaurusLived centuries ago;Through marshes wet and porousHe rambled to and fro.The most tremendous LizardThat ever browsed on meat,His ...
Sea Sickness (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
I must go down to the seas again, where the billows romp and reel,So all I ask is a large ...
Hills (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
I never loved your plains!-- Your gentle valleys, Your drowsy country lanes And pleach?d alleys. I want my hills! ...
The Traveler (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?—That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in ...
Pithecanthropus Erectus (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The primitive Pithecanthropus erectus,With whom the ethnologists rightly connect us, Defended his own By cudgel and stone.Why isn't ...
The Idol-Maker Prays (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Great god whom I shall carve from this gray stoneWherein thou liest, hid to all but me,Grant thou that when ...
Sex (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Amobas at the startWere not complex;They tore themselves apartAnd started Sex.And Sex has ruled the earthFrom then till this,Producing woe ...
Kindness to Insects (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
I saw a Melancholy WaspUpon a Purple Clover Knosp,Who wept, "The Poets do me Wrong,Excluding me from Noble Song—Though Pure ...
Nocturne (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The three-toed tree-toadSings his sweet odeTo the moon;The funny bunnyAnd his honeyTrip in tune.The gentle cricketFrom his thicketLifts his croon;A ...
Habits of the Hippopotamus (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The hippopotamus is strongAnd huge of head and broad of bustle;The limbs on which he rolls alongAre big with hippopotomuscle.He ...
In The Hospital (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Because on the branch that is tapping my paneA sun-wakened leaf-bud, uncurled,Is bursting its rusty brown sheathing in twain,I know ...
The Chip on the Shoulder (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
Learn this now before you are older: Don't go through life with a chip on your shoulder, Always aggrieved and ...
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The tusks which clashed in mighty brawlsOf mastodons, are billiard balls.The sword of Charlemagne the JustIs Ferric Oxide, known as ...
Safety First (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.The Minks won't tellWhere they hide or sleep,And the ...
My Hills of Dreams (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
High on my hills of dreams - Dear hills that know me!And then how fair will seem The ...
What One Approves, Another Scorns (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
What one approves,another scorns,and thushis nature each discloses.You find the rosebushfull of thorns,I find thethornbush full of roses.(Arthur Guiterman)
The Phlebotomous Flea (Arthur Guiterman Poems)
A Flea who felt phlebotomousAssailed a Hippopotamus;The Hippo, heSat on the Flea,And, goodness gracious! what a muss!(Arthur Guiterman)