The Garden In Winter (Mary Webb Poems)
The winter sun that rises near the southLooks coldly on my garden of cold clay;Like some old dotard with a ...
Laughter Poems (2315 Poems)
Oh day of fire and sun (Sarah Teasdale Poems)
Oh day of fire and sun,Pure as a naked flame,Blue sea, blue sky and dunSands where he spoke my name;Laughter ...
Cricket Song (Luigi Panero Poems)
Now night has come:from the crescent moonhardly a threadof light is shedupon the sea.No voice to expressthe sounds of griefor ...
Negro Dancers (Langston Hughes Poems)
"Me an' ma baby'sGot two mo' ways,Two mo' ways to do de Charleston!"Da, da,Da, da, da!Two mo' ways to do ...
Epitaph In Berkeley Church-Yard, Gloucestershire (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Here lies the Earl of Suffolk's fool, Men call'd him Dicky Pearce;His folly served to make folks laugh, When wit and mirth ...
You told your willing bard to sing (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
You told your willing bard to sing,But made no choice of tears or laughter ;So think this story just the ...
April (William Watson Poems)
April, April,Laugh thy girlish laughter;Then, the moment after,Weep thy girlish tears!April, that mine earsLike a lover greetest,If I tell thee, ...
Callous Cupid (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
CUPID does not care for sighsDoes not care for lover's weeping!Fair One, dry your pretty eyes,Cupid does not care for ...
The Masters (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
YOU have taught me laughter, Joyousness and light,How the day is rosy-wild, Star-enthrilled the night:Maybe God can teach me After you are goneHow ...
The Touch-Me-Not (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
So ticklish is my skinThat if you touch my sideThe little seed withinWill laugh, and split me wide.So, when I ...
Baby’s Dimples (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Love goes playing hide-and-seek'Mid the roses on her cheek,With a little imp of Laughter,Who, the while he follows after,Leaves the ...
Wise People (Margaret Widdemer Poems)
I THINK that we are very strong and wise, Mocking at love and at the grief thereafter, . . .For sometimes ...
A Cattle Plague (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
"What ails you?" tenderly I spokeTo a dejected calf.He answered, "At a killing jokeI'm dying, sir, to laugh.They little know, ...
Substitute For An Epitaph (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
Kind Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;Here HAROLD lies, but where's his Epitaph?If such you seek, try Westminster, ...
Epitaph On Rabelais (Jean Antoine de Baif Poems)
Pluto, bid Rabelais welcome to thy shore,That thou, who art the king of woe and pain,Whose subjects never learned to ...
Bicycles! Tricycles! (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Bicycles! Tricycles! Nay, to shun laughter,Try cycles first, and buy cycles after;For surely the buyer deserves but the worstWho would ...
The Brazier (Huyen Quang Ly Dao Tai Poems)
The fire's gone out. I light incenseAnd answer the child's question about poetry,Grasping my waterpipe and wooden drumstick.The common folk ...
Israel In Egypt. Book Fourth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
The Moat House (Edith Nesbit Poems)
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Fifth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
The Me Within Thee Blind! (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
I At the convent doors, full of alarm She stood, like a young bird quitting its nest. Her first flight ...
Fragments From “The Brigand.” A Poem. Canto III (Albert Pike Poems)
The twenty-fifth had come; Peru awoke;One cry for freedom from her green hills broke,From her wide plains and valleys; and ...
The Painter Of Florence (Ernest Jones Poems)
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
The Prince’s Progress (Christina Georgina Rossetti Poems)
Till all sweet gums and juices flow, Till the blossom of blossoms blow, The long hours go and come and ...
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
The Apology (Charles Churchill Poems)
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
The Lost Child. Canto I. (George Jehoshaphat Mountain Poems)
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
The Mirror (Cornelius Arnold Poems)
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
Gotham – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
A Rhyme For The Time (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
What is to say, had best be said, So, Lilian, ...