The City Streets (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
Babies Poems (933 Poems)
Macaulay’s New Zealander. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
IT little profits that, an idle man,On this worn arch, in sight of wasted halls,I mope, a solitary pelican,And glower ...
The Bull (Ralph Hodgson Poems)
See an old unhappy bull,Sick in soul and body both,Slouching in the undergrowthOf the forest beautiful,Banished from the herd he ...
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
From the first it had been like aBallad. It had the beat inevitable. It had the blood.A wildness cut up, ...
‘Ostler Joe (George Robert Sims Poems)
I stood at eve, as the sun went down, by a grave where a woman lies,Who lured men's souls to ...
A Mother Showing The Portrait Of Her Child (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(F.M.L.)Living child or pictured cherub, Ne’er o’ermatched its baby grace;And the mother, moving nearer, Looked it calmly in the face;Then with slight ...
In The Garret (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, All fashioned and filled, long ago, By children now ...
Billy’s Alphabetical Animal Show (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A was an elegant Ape Who tied up his ears with red tape, And wore a long veil Half revealing his tail Which was ...
Advertisemen (Langston Hughes Poems)
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES!Look! See what Vanity Fair says about the new ...
The New Master (Pat O Cotter Poems)
As one who lays aside a task, where one has ruled alone,I lay aside the crown of hell, and give ...
Motherhood, 1951 (Ai Ogawa Poems)
Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy,Or maybe it's Pegeen to you,Well, I'm really Stella Mae.Peggy's my nickname,But anyway, will you ...
The Lincoln-Chil (James Oppenheim Poems)
Clearing in the forest,In the wild Kentucky forest,And the stars, wintry stars strewn above!O Night that is the starriestSince Earth ...
The Maid Of Ocram, Or, Lord Gregory (John Clare Poems)
Gay was the Maid of OcramAs lady eer might beEre she did venture past a maidTo love Lord Gregory.Fair was ...
Dot Leedle Boy (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Ot's a leedle Gristmas story Dot I told der leedle folks--Und I vant you stop dot laughin' Und grackin' funny jokes!--So help ...
Patient Mercy Jones (James Thomas Fields Poems)
Let us venerate the bonesOf patient Mercy Jones,Who lies underneath these stones.This is her story as once told to meBy ...
Drought and Doctrine (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Come, take the tenner, doctor . . . yes, I know the bill says "five,"But it ain't as if you'd ...
The Life Of Lincoln West (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
The First Fan (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
READ AT A MEETING OF THE BOSTON BRIC-A-BRACCLUB, FEBRUARY 21, 1877WHEN rose the cry "Great Pan is dead!"And Jove's high ...
Poem Of Poverty (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Poems)
Poverty, brothers, is a mouthful that's hard to swallow,A bite that sticks in your throat and leaves you in sorrow,When ...
Poem Of Poverty (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Poems)
Poverty, brothers, is a mouthful that's hard to swallow,A bite that sticks in your throat and leaves you in sorrow,When ...
The Pilgrim’s Vision (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
IN the hour of twilight shadowsThe Pilgrim sire looked out;He thought of the "bloudy Salvages"That lurked all round about,Of Wituwamet's ...
To The Reader (John Bunyan Poems)
The title page will show, if there thou look,Who are the proper subjects of this book.They're boys and girls of ...
A Redeemer (Robinson Jeffers Poems)
The road had steepened and the sun sharpened on the highridges; the stream probably was dry,Certainly not to be come ...
Sonnets Of Old Egypt (John Le Gay Brereton Poems)
I The Sphinx The spires of sand spring up at every gust That bids them dance and scatter and lays them low: He sits ...
Song Of The Spirits Of Spring (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
I. Wafted o'er purple seas, From gold Hesperides, Mixed with the southern breeze, Hail to us spirits! Dripping with fragrant rains, Fire of our ardent veins, Life ...
Bob (Henry Kendall Poems)
SINGER of songs of the hills- Dreamer, by waters unstirred,Back in a valley of rills, Home of the leaf and the bird!-Read ...
The Celebration Of The Lizard (James Douglas Morrison Poems)
Lions in the street & roamingDogs in heat, rabid, foamingA beast caged in the heart of a cityThe body of ...
An Extempore (John Keats Poems)
When they were come into Faery's CourtThey rang -- no one at home -- all gone to sportAnd dance and ...
On The Loss Of Energy (And Other Things) (June Jordan Poems)
no more the chicken and the egg comeone of thembefore the otherbothbe fadin (steady)from the supersafeway/a&p/giantcircus uh-huh the pilgrim cornucopia it ain' a ...
Intaglio – Frank Denz (Henry Kendall Poems)
In the roar of the storm, in the wild bitter voice of the tempest-whipped sea,The cry of my darling, my ...