The Book of Phillip Sparrow (John Skelton Poems)
Pla ce bo, Who is there, who? Di le xi, Dame Margery; Fa, re, my, my, Wherfore and why, why? For the sowle of Philip Sparowe, That ...
Cats Poems (680 Poems)
Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds (John Keats Poems)
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed,There came before my eyes that wonted threadOf shapes, and shadows, and ...
Pats Of Butter (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
The Peasant And His Angry Lord (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
ONCE on a time, as hist'ry's page relates,A lord, possessed of many large estates,Was angry with a poor and humble ...
The Shepherd’s Week : Tuesday; or, the Ditty (John Gay Poems)
Marian.Young Colin Clout, a lad of peerless meed,Full well could dance, and deftly tune the reed;In every wood his carrols ...
Making Home (John O Brien Poems)
No, you don't quite get the meaning when the fun is at its heightWith the neighbours at the breakfast, and ...
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 ...
Our Garden (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
The winter is gone; and at first Jack and I were sad,Because of the snow-man's melting, but now we are ...
Broken Song (Rabindranath Tagore Poems)
Kasinath the new young singer fills the hall with sound:The seven notes dance in his throat like seven tame birds.His ...
Jubilate Agno (excerpt) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
The Kitten (Joanna Baillie Poems)
WANTON droll, whose harmless playBeguiles the rustic's closing day,When, drawn the evening fire about,Sit aged crone and thoughtless lout,And child ...
A Christmas Carol (George Wither Poems)
So now is come our joyful'st feast, Let every man be jolly. Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with ...
from Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, lines 695-768 (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him.For ...
The Old Bachelor’s Story (John Hartley Poems)
It was an humble cottage, Snug in a rustic lane,Geraniums and fuschias peep'd From every window-pane;The dark-leaved ivy dressed its walls, Houseleek adorned ...
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry (excerpt, Jubilate Agno) (Christopher Smart Poems)
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.For ...
The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment (John Keats Poems)
Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;Twice holy was the Sabbath-bellThat call'd the folk to evening prayer;The city streets were clean and ...
Touch Him If You Dare (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
A TALE OF THE HEDGE.Hedge-Plants."Beware!We advise you to take care.He lodges with us, so we know him well,And can tellYou ...
The Virtuoso: In Imitation of Spenser’s Style And Stanza (Mark Akenside Poems)
"——— Videmus Nugari solitos." -PersiusWhilom by silver Thames's gentle stream,In London town there dwelt a subtile wight;A wight of mickle wealth, and ...
The Plague In The Forest (John Quincy Adams Poems)
Time was, when round the lion's den,A peopled city raised its head;'Twas not inhabited by men,But by four-footed beasts instead.The ...
How A Cat Was Annoyed And A Poet Was Booted (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A poet had a cat. There is nothing odd in that- (I might make a little pun about the Mews!) But what is ...
Poetic Lines, Addressed To A Friend (Mary Hopkins Pilkington Poems)
YOU request me, my friend, on true courage to write;Yet do you reflect, that whilst I indite,Or attempt to explain ...
Three Jolly Huntsmen (Jessie Pope Poems)
Three jolly, old huntsmen, Joe, Jerry, Jim,Took lunch at "The Three Cornered Hat";Now Jerry was lanky, but Joe wasn't slim,And ...
The Rivals; Or The Showman’s Ruse (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A TRAGI-COMEDY, IN ONE ACT. PERSONS REPRESENTED. BILLY MILLER ) The Rivals JOHNNY WILLIAMS ) TOMMY WELLS Conspirator TIME--Noon: SCENE--Country Town--Rear-view of the Miller Mansion, showing Barn, with practical loft-window opening ...
The Revolution At Market-Hill (Jonathan Swift Poems)
From distant regions Fortune sendsAn odd triumvirate of friends;Where Phoebus pays a scanty stipend,Where never yet a codling ripen'd:Hither the ...
A Quiet Day (John Hartley Poems)
A'a! its grand to have th' place to yorsen! To get th' wimmen fowk all aght o'th' way!Mine's all off for ...
Dawgs of War (Henry Lawson Poems)
Comes the British bulldog first-solid as a log-He's so ugly in repose that he's a handsome dog;Full of mild benevolence ...
The Country (Ivan Turgenev Poems)
The last day of July; for a thousand versts around, Russia, our nativeland.An unbroken blue flooding the whole sky; a ...
The Urban Rat And The Suburban Rat (Guy Wetmore Carryl Poems)
A metropolitan rat invited His country cousin in town to dine: The country cousin replied, "Delighted." And signed himself, "Sincerely thine." The town rat ...
The Fringilla Melodia (Henry Beck Hirst Poems)
HAPPY Song-sparrow, that on woodland side Or by the meadow sits, and ceaseless sings His mellow roundelay in russet pride, ...