When Papa’s Sick (Joseph C Lincoln Poems)
When Papa's sick, my goodness sakes!Such awful, awful times it makes.He speaks in, oh! such lonesome tones,And gives such ghas'ly ...
Children Poems (3168 Poems)
The Young Adventurers (Michael Earls Poems)
We will go adventuring, will you come adventuring,Hail, to all who sail with us the seven pleasant seas:All the shores ...
The Splendid Vision (Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper Poems)
While the whole world is filled with noise of battle,And cries from many a devastated land,While day by day our ...
Christmas Tears (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
The day returns by which we date our years:Day of the joy of giving,-that means love;Day of the joy of ...
Readymade (John Perreault Poems)
The Venus Fly Trap(1) A Beautiful Plant!Its dark green leaves form a low symmetrical rosette. Each leaf is tipped with ...
My Fore-Elders (William Barnes Poems)
When from the child, that still is ledBy hand, a father's hand is gone, ---Or when a few-year'd mother deadHas ...
November (Gerrit Achterberg Poems)
The low days of Novemberhave again returned, gray as a pail;at ease with the lessening lighton the faces of children.The ...
When Ham And Sham And Japhet: A Sailor’s Song (Harry Kemp Poems)
When Ham and Shem and JaphetThey walked the capstan roundUpon the strangest vessel,Was ever outward bound,The music of their voicesFrom ...
The Secret Police (Ken Smith Poems)
They are listening in the wires,in the walls, under the eavesin the wings of house martins,in the ears of old ...
The “Little Una” (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
The wind was blowing lightlyAlong the gleaming sea,The sun was shining brightlyOn children in their glee,On vessels in the harbour,And ...
The Plague (John Pierpont Poems)
"The Plague! the Plague! bring out your dead."Through all the land the cryRang shrilly forth. "We bring our dead!"Was murmured ...
Cartoon Physics, Part 1 (Nick Flynn Poems)
Children under, say, ten, shouldn't knowthat the universe is ever-expanding,inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxiesswallowed by galaxies, wholesolar systems collapsing, ...
Water Picture (May Swenson Poems)
In the pond in the parkall things are doubled;Long buildings hang andwriggle gently. Chimneysare bent legs bouncingon clouds below. A flagwags like ...
The Great (?) White Man (Marcus Mosiah Garvey Poems)
Adam, Eve and all the rest of menThrew away the chart of holy life,And becoming Satan's cruel children,Waste the world ...
25 December 1960 (Ingrid Jonker Poems)
Ward one-hundred-and-thirty in the passage on the right.It's five in the morning for the milk-carthas gone with its horses, eyes ...
The Neighbour’s Children (Mary Webb Poems)
They run to meet me, clinging to my dress,The neighbour's children. With a wild unrestAnd sobbings of a strange, fierce ...
Love-Tokens (John Newton Poems)
Afflictions do not come alone,A voice attends the rod;By both he to his saints is known,A Father and a God!Let ...
Lines Addressed To Mrs. Buchanan of Drumpeller, (Janet Hamilton Poems)
On Her Kind Reception of A Large Party of Sabbath School ChildrenOh! gentle Lady, with the bounteous handAnd feeling heart, ...
Happy is England Now (John Freeman Poems)
There is not anything more wonderfulThan a great people moving towards the deepOf an unguessed and unfeared future; norIs aught ...
Advice to Little Children (Julia A Moore Poems)
Bless those little children That love to go to school;Blessed be the children That obey the golden rule.Children, love your parents, For they ...
The Only Child (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Lest he miss other children, lo!His angel is his playfellow.A riotous angel two years old,With wings of rose and curls ...
Children’s Reply (Julia A Moore Poems)
We are little children, That go to Sabbath school,To hear of our Redeemer, Likewise the golden rule.We will try and do our ...
Fragments From Sappho (Henry Alford Poems)
I. Hesperus, thou bringest near Hesperus, thou bringest nearAll that garish dayScattered far away:Thou bringest back the sheep,Thou bringest back the goat,Thou ...
Old Black Joe (Stephen C. Foster Poems)
1 Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,2 Gone are my friends from the cotton fields ...
The Themes (Millosh Gjergj Nikolla Poems)
Is there the theme of a poem among fading memories,Among the happy memories of childhood innocence,When the heart was full ...
Psalm C (Rees Prichard Poems)
Come all ye nations of the earth —Come all with jollity and mirth,And with gay heart the praises singOf God ...
On Old Brighton Beach, Wollongong (Gerard Addington D Arcy Irvine Poems)
PLAYFULLY plashing upon the smooth beach,Giving your music my musings to teach,Helping my spirit your Maker to preach ;Wavelets, come ...
Glory To God; To Men Good Will! (Joseph Furphy Poems)
Opposed to Jewish Temple-rites,Strange to the lore of Greece,That message comes from starry heights,A key to lasting Peace.What-e'er our creed, ...
Fragments from “Under The Lilacs”. (Louisa May Alcott Poems)
"So he took up his bow, And he feathered his arrow, And said, 'I will shoot This little cock-sparrow.'"* * * * "'Tis good to make all ...
The Irish Emigrant. 1883 (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
"They sow in tears who reap in joy," Was truly said of old:We wandered far, but round us still Stretched God Almighty's ...