Meditation in Lamplight (John Collings Squire Poems)
What deaths men have died, not fighting but impotent. Hung on the wire, between trenches, burning and freezing, Groaning for water with ...
Coffee Poems (236 Poems)
The Chantey Of The Cook (dithyramb of a discontented crew) (Harry Kemp Poems)
The Devil take the cook, that old grey-bearded fellow,Yo ho, haul away!Who feeds us odds and ends and biscuits whiskered ...
Bronco Shod With Wings (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
Sing me a home beyond the stars, and if the song be fair,I'll dwell awhile with melody--as long as mortal ...
Duke (Bob Hicok Poems)
He was hit back of the head for a haul of $15,a Diner's Club Card and picture of his daughter ...
Punchin’ Dough (Henry Herbert Knibbs Poems)
Come, all you young waddies, I'll sing you a song,Stand back from the wagon--stay where you belong:I've heard you observin' ...
My Love (Don Paterson Poems)
It's not the lover that we love, but loveitself, love as in nothing, as in O;love is the lover's coin, ...
The Colonel (Carolyn Forch Poems)
What you have heard is true. I was in his house.His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. Hisdaughter ...
Rue Bonaparte (Joseph Warren Beach Poems)
YOU that but seek your modest rolls and coffee, When you have passed the bar, and have saluted Its watchful madam, then ...
La Gorgues (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The long night, the short sleep, and La Gorgues to wander,So be the Fates were kind and our Commander;With a ...
Notice (J W Renoud Poems)
NOTICEStep up ye gallant fair and brave!Step up, Torn, Jake and Kate,Unto my store in Norwalk town,In Main Street, number ...
Let Each Man Remember (Josephine Jacobsen Poems)
There is a terrible hour in the early morningWhen men awake and look on the day that bringsThe hateful adventure, ...
Like His Mother Used To Make (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Uncle Jake's Place," St. Jo, Mo., 1874"I was born in Indiany," says a stranger, lank and slim,As us fellers in ...
At the Police Station (Lauris Dorothy Edmond Poems)
There, she is there. She moves in the cold September morningit's hours yet till dawn but she knows neither light ...
The Story of the Man that went out Shooting (Heinrich Hoffmann Poems)
This is the man that shoots the hares;This is the coat he always wears:With game-bag, powder-horn, and gunHe's going out ...
A Woman on the Dump (Debora Greger Poems)
Is it peace,Is it a philosopher's honeymoon, one findsOn the dump?-Wallace StevensOut of the cracks of cups and their handles, ...
The United Fruit Co. (Pablo Neruda Poems)
When the trumpet sounded, it wasall prepared on the earth,the Jehovah parcelled out the earthto Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda,Ford Motors, ...
April In The Huasteca (Grace Hazard Conkling Poems)
Dark on the gold west, Mexico hung inscrutable like a curtain of heavy velvet Before a lighted shrine. Black on the west All Mexico ...
The Coming Woman (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love—And not even the fires are caught;Well, you know I must be at ...
“Lie in the dark and listen” (Noel Coward Poems)
Lie in the dark and listen,It's clear tonight so they're flying highHundreds of them, thousands perhaps,Riding the icy, moonlight sky.Men, ...
Folk (John Streeter Manifold Poems)
They've opened a Folk Expresso Bar,and once, for a sort of a joke,I went to drink Folk Expresso thereand watch ...
Upon Receipt Of A Pound Of Coffee In 1863 (Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert Poems)
The sight of the coffee was good for sore eyes,For I have not learned yet its worth to despise;I welcomed ...
Americanisation (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Britannia needs no Boulevards,No spaces wide and gay:Her march was through the crooked streetsAlong the narrow way.Nor looks she where, ...
The Shearer’s Cook (William Thomas Goodge Poems)
Now, shearers' cooks, as shearers know,Are very seldom wont to blow;But when I took to dabbing tarAnd 'picking-up' on Blaringar,The ...
Daniel at Breakfast (Phyllis McGinley Poems)
his paper propped against the electric toaster(nicely adjusted to his morning use),Daniel at breakfast studies world disasterand sips his orange ...
Cafes In Damascus (Letitia Elizabeth Landon Poems)
LANGUIDLY the night-wind blowethFrom the gardens round,Where the clear Barrada flowethWith a lulling sound.Not the lute-note's sweet shiverCan such music ...
To Poetry (Edward Hirsch Poems)
Don't desert mejust because I stayed up last nightwatching The Lost Weekend.I know I've spent too much timepraising your naked ...
Dream Song 98: I met a junior–not so junior–and (John Berryman Poems)
I met a junior-not so junior-anda-many others, who knew 'him' or 'them'long ago, slightly,whom I know. It was the usualcocktail ...
Impasse (Martinus Nijhoff Poems)
She stood in the kitchen, she and I.For days I had been thinking: ask it today.But because I was ashamed ...
A Lucky Day (Gustaf Munch-Petersen Poems)
today is a lucky day -i have got a new tie from god.it is red and i tie it with ...
Common Things (Ivor Gurney Poems)
The dearness of common things —Beech wood, tea, plate-shelves,And the whole family of crockery —Wood-axes, blades, helves.Ivory milk, earth's coffee,The ...