Retroduction To American History (Allen Tate Poems)
Cats walk the floor at midnight; that enemy of fog,The moon, wraps the bedpost in receding stillness; sleepCollects all weary ...
Cows Poems (601 Poems)
A Mixed Crew (C J Dennis Poems)
Tho' it sounds a trifle mystic, Somewhat vague and cabbalistic,When you come to analyse the ...
The Sweetness Of England (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
And when, at lastEscaped,-so many a green slope built on slopeBetwixt me and the enemy's house behind,I dared to rest, ...
Langwidge (C J Dennis Poems)
The flamin' cows! 'e ses; 'e did, an' worse; 'Twas 'orrible the langwidge that 'e used.It made me blood run ...
The Song Of The Negro Boatmen (Anonymous Americas Poems)
O, praise an' tanks! De Lord he come To set de people free; An' massa tink it day ob ...
LXII: Terence, This is Stupid Stuff (A E Housman Poems)
Terence, this is stupid stuff! You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see ...
The Innkeeper’s Wife (Clive Sansom Poems)
I love this byre. Shadows are kindly here.The light is flecked with travelling stars of dust,So quiet it seems after ...
Ode To Our Young Pro-Consuls Of The Air (Allen Tate Poems)
To St. John PerseOnce more the country callsFrom sleep, as from his doom,Each citizen to takeHis modest stakeWhere the sky ...
Dad’s Philanthropic Plan (C J Dennis Poems)
I knew an old philanthropist, a farming man was he,Shrewd at a deal, but still withal a man of charity.He ...
Ghost Canyon Trail (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
There are strange things told of spirits bold,And the trail to Sante Fe,There is many a tale of the Chisholm ...
St. Luke (D H Lawrence Poems)
A WALL, a bastion,A living forehead with its slow whorl of hairAnd a bull's large, sombre, glancing eyeAnd glistening, adhesive ...
The Domicile Erected By John (E L Blanchard Poems)
" Behold the mansion swift upreared for Jack: See the malt stored in many an ample sack. Mark how the ...
Alphabet Poem (Edward Lear Poems)
"A was once an ant, Tiny, Busy, Speedy, ShinyIn the groundyLittle ant!A was once a little ant, Antsy Fantsy Mantsy ...
Mustering Song (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
The boss last night in the hut did say —"We start to muster at break of day;So be up first ...
The League Of Nations (Billy Bennett Poems)
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. I have a story to tell.Lend me your ears, if you've not got ...
Cherry (C J Dennis Poems)
Some I got with amber stems an' some with silver bands,Bent ones an' straight ones an' all sorts o' brands.A ...
London To Folkestone (Half-Past One To Half-Past Five) (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
A constant keeping-past of shaken trees, And a bewildered glitter of loose road; Banks of bright growth, with single blades ...
That Little Blue Roan (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
Most all of your boys have rode horses like that.He wasn't too thin but he never got fat.The old breed ...
The Prude’s Alphabet (Donald Marquis Poems)
A is for Tarsus. The current short skirtsDo not conceal it, which pleases the flirts. B is the letter for ...
Granny Mat To Her Granddaughter Matilda (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
Granny Mat: Doves are in ther cotes, T' cow ...
The Squatter’s Man (Anonymous Oceania Poems)
Come, all ye lads an' list to me,That's left your homes an' crossed the sea,To try your fortune, bound or ...
Summer Dawn (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
SOME summer mornings - when you've taken teaToo late the night before - perhaps you'll see,If at some Berkshire farmhouse ...
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 ...
The Weather Is Hot On The Back Of My Watch (Charles Bukowski Poems)
the weather is hot on the back of my watch which is down at Finkelstein's who is gifted with 3 ...
The Tight Brigade (Billy Bennett Poems)
Half a league, half a league, football league, 0nward.In fifteen char-a-bancs rode the 600. This is the tale of a ...
The Austral-Aise (C J Dennis Poems)
Fellers of Australier, Blokes an' coves an' coots,Shift yer —- carcases, Move yer —- boots.Gird yer —- loins up, Get ...
To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.) (George Meredith Poems)
IAn English heart, my commandant,A soldier's eye you have, awakeTo right and left; with looks askantOn bulwarks not of adamant,Where ...
A Chantey of Labor’s Lost (C J Dennis Poems)
There on the quay sobbed Bones, A.B., And he took me by the hand.Says he to me, "I've quit the ...
The Creak of the Leather (Bruce Kiskaddon Poems)
It's likely that you can rememberA corral at the foot of a hillSome mornin' along in DecemberWhen the air was ...
The Spotted Heifers (C J Dennis Poems)
Mr Jeremiah JeffersOwned a pair of spotted heifersThese he sold for two pounds tenTo Mr Robert Raymond WrenWho reared them ...