The Auld Wife (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
PART IThe auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing ...
Cats Poems (680 Poems)
Ducks (Frederick William Harvey Poems)
FROM troubles of the worldI turn to ducks,Beautiful comical thingsSleeping or curledTheir heads beneath white wingsBy water cool,Or finding curious ...
The Banker and the Cobbler (Alphonse Marie Lois de Lamartine Poems)
There was a cobbler once, who sang all day;'Twas wonderful to see the man, and thenTo hear him quavering away,Happier ...
Liberty (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
THE SPARROW'S ADDRESS TO THE COOK MAIDS. YE gentle cookmaids, oh! in pity spare,The various fragments from your plenteous boardThe ...
How Salty Win Out (Eugene Field Poems)
I used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck--It made no diff'rence how or when or ...
Grimalkin’s Ghost; Or, The Water Spirits (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
In humble imitation of the soaring flights of somelegendary and exquisitely pathetic modern Bards. JONAS lay on his bed, so ...
The Charge of the Swordfish (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Now when, beneath the riotous drinking,The witches found the liquor sinkingSo low their ladles couldn't reach it,The blacksmith with a ...
Health (Edward Thomas Poems)
Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land,To the frosted steep of the down and its junipers black,Travels ...
That Letter (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
I rode to that box a settin' on a post beside the trail,That our outfit used fur getting' all their ...
The Sunday Bonnet (Elizabeth Madox Roberts Poems)
It happened at Grandmother Polly's house, And there ...
Invocation (Arthur Symons Poems)
I pray to the old kindness of the Earth, Which is a spirit moving in the world, Closer to life ...
Hist! (C J Dennis Poems)
Hist! . . . . . . Hark!The night is very dark,And we've to go a mile or soAcross the ...
Listen, Elaine! (C J Dennis Poems)
Listen, Elaine. Tho' I'm not mad on racing, I like a little flutter now and then;But I maintain you would ...
The Turtle’s Sermon (George Johnston Poems)
An old and crafty terrapin,Who lately found his speech,Like many another simple lout,Concluded he could preach.And so he waddled to ...
Elements of Composition (A.K. Ramanujan Poems)
Composed as I am, like others, of elements on certain well-known lists,father's seed and mother's egggathering earth, air, fire, mostly ...
Understanding (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
When I was young and frivolous and never stopped to think, When I was always doing wrong, or just upon ...
Farewell To The Market (Francis W L Adams Poems)
Susannah and Mary-JaneTWO little Darlings alone,Clinging hand in hand;Two little Girls come outTo see the wonderful land!Here round the flaring ...
Deep Sea Plunderings (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
If one could be mine for the askingOf all the ships there be,The great and small and swift and tallThat ...
The Limitations Of Youth (Eugene Field Poems)
I'd like to be a cowboy an' ride a fiery hoss Way out into the big an' boundless west;I'd kill ...
She (Billy Bennett Poems)
I'd known her from her "Baby days" And watched her grow apace, Her lovely eyes and glossy hair, And figure-full ...
The Deacon and the Owl. (Elliott Blaine Henderson Poems)
TO CALVIN W. REYNOLDS, Columbus, O. Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Cums fum de owl, De mos' com'kul Ub all de ...
The Finger Post (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Across the field, beyond the church. You see the sign post stand.And towards the highway lean and lurch. ...
For A Child Expected (Anne Ridler Poems)
Lovers whose lifted hands are candles in winter,Whose gentle ways like streams in the easy summer,Lying togetherFor secret setting of ...
A Rainy Day On The Farm (Aristophanes Poems)
How sweet it is to see the new-sown cornfield fresh and even, With blades just springing from the soil ...
To A Gentleman, Who Disliked Cats (Caroline Maxwell Poems)
YOU blame me, dear friend, for admiring of cats,Which (except for destroying of mice and of rats)You say is a ...
An Old Man Speaks (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
Bride weather it is, my lad,And old bones feel it today;The wind's a tooth as sharp as a gad,The frost ...
The Sea Cat (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
It's not for us to understandHow life on earth began to be,How forms that lived within the seaShould leave the ...
A Likely Lad (C J Dennis Poems)
Child of a myriad varied voices calling O'er countless leagues of space in divers tongues,Tho' captious critics view your ways ...
Bachin’ (Badger Clark Jr Poems)
Our lives are hid; our trails are strange;We're scattered through the WestIn canyon cool, on blistered rangeOr windy mountain crest.Wherever ...
Injun Summah (Benjamin Franklin King Jr Poems)
De Injun summah's comin', De bees is all froo hummin', De watah-mellon thumbin' ...