Ode To Tobacco (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
Thou, who when fears attackBidst them avaunt, and BlackCare, at the horseman's backPerching, unseatest;Sweet when the morn is gray;Sweet when ...
Cats Poems (680 Poems)
Our Dum’d Animals (Franklin Pierce Adams Poems)
What time I seek my virtuous couch to steal Some surcease from the labours of the day,Ere silence like a ...
The Day Of Vendors (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Before dawn I called for you,my poem, but you didn't come.I had woken up to the songof the cardinal perchedon ...
Cockroach (Anne Sexton Poems)
Roach, foulest of creatures, who attacks with yellow teeth and an army of cousins big as shoes, you are lumps ...
That Boy (Anonymous Americas Poems)
Is the house turned topsy-turvy?Does it ring from street to roof?Will the racket still continue,Spite of all your mild reproof?Are ...
About Boys (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Show me the boy who never threw A stone at someone's cat; ...
The Abortion (Anne Sexton Poems)
Somebody who should have been born is gone.Just as the earth puckered its mouth, each bud puffing out from its ...
Always Saying “Don’t!” (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Folks are queer as they can be,Always sayin' "don't" to me;Don't do this an' don't do that.Don't annoy or tease ...
Mehitabel Was Once Cleopatra (Donald Marquis Poems)
boss i am disappointed insome of your readers theyare always asking how doesarchy work the shift so as to get ...
The Flattered Lightning Bug (Donald Marquis Poems)
a lightning bug gotin here the other night aregular hick fromthe real country he wasawful proud of himself youcity insects ...
A Reckless Cowboy (Frank Maynard Poems)
I am a reckless cowboy, the prairie is my home,At the early age of sixteen I first began to roam,I ...
Literary Jealousy (Donald Marquis Poems)
dear boss i dont seewhy you keep that ugly boston bull terrier petehanging aroundeating his head offin these hard timeshe ...
Nine Years (A P Herbert Poems)
'Old and effete—this Parliament!' they cried,The laughing lads who stand about outside(Though now they ask the object of their mirthTo ...
God’s World (Boris Pasternak Poems)
Thin as hair are the shadows of sunsetWhen they follow drawn-out every tree.On the road through the forest the post-girlHands ...
Loulou And Her Cat (Frederick Locker-Lampson Poems)
GOOD pastry is vended In Cit? Fadette; Maison Pons can make splendid Brioche and galette. M'sieu Pons is so fat ...
The Garden By Moonlight (Amy Lowell Poems)
A black cat among roses, Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon, The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The ...
Distemper. (Frank Sidgwick Poems)
The piano and my writing-desk are covered with a pall And charwomen and chimney-sweeps foregather in the hall; But the ...
The Mimic Harlequin (Charles Lamb Poems)
I'll make believe, and fancy something strange:I will suppose I have the power to changeAnd make all things unlike to ...
The Staying Up All Night. (F Scott Fitzgerald Poems)
The warm fire.The comfortable chairs.The merry companions.The stroke of twelve.The wild suggestion.The good sports.The man who hasn't slept for weeks.The ...
A Smile To Remember (Charles Bukowski Poems)
we had goldfish and they circled around and aroundin the bowl on the table near the heavy drapescovering the picture ...
The Very Image – To Rene Magritte (David Gascoyne Poems)
An image of my grandmotherher head appearing upside-down upon a cloudthe cloud transfixed on the steepleof a deserted railway-stationfar awayAn ...
A Parody (Charles Lamb Poems)
Lazy-bones, lazy-bones, wake up and peep;The Cat's in the cupboard, your Mother's asleep.There you sit snoring, forgetting her ills:Who is ...
Meeting (A.S.J. Tessimond Poems)
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.Snakes, no ...
At a Certain Age (Czeslaw Milosz Poems)
We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.White clouds refused to accept them, and the windWas too ...
Cradle Song (Edwin Waugh Poems)
Th' child cries i'th cradle;Th' cake bruns o'th stone;Th' cow moos i'th milkin' gap,At th' end o'th loan.The cat purs ...
On A Night of Snow (Elizabeth Coatsworth Poems)
Cat, if you go outdoors, you must walk in the snow.You will come back with little white shoes on your ...
Ole Kate (Ezra Pound Poems)
When I was only a youngster,Sing: toodle doodlede ootlOle Kate would git her 'arf a pintAnd wouldn't' giv' a damn ...
One Summer (Ernesto Trejo Poems)
Against the elmthat spun its rumorup and down the blockone afternoonyour bike leanedlike a drunkamong othersa pearl of sweaton the ...
The Lobster (Edwin Carty Ranck Poems)
Lobsters haven't any feet, But they have lots of claws; Yet lobster meat is good to eat, ...
Catch A Little Rhyme (Eve Merriam Poems)
Once upon a time I caught a little rhyme I set it on the floor ...