Bridegroom Dick (Herman Melville Poems)
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
Pets Poems (166 Poems)
Yet Dish (Gertrude Stein Poems)
I Put a sun in Sunday, Sunday. Eleven please ten hoop. Hoop. Cousin coarse in coarse in soap. Cousin coarse in soap sew up. ...
A Story Of Plantagenet (Nora Pembroke Poems)
In the small Village of St Joseph, below the City of Ottawa, stilllives or did live very recently, an ancient ...
Mrs. McNair (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
Mrs. McNair Was tall and fair; Mrs. McNair was slim;She had flashing black eyes and raven hair;But a very remarkably modest air;And ...
Bianca’s Dream – A Venetian Story (Thomas Hood Poems)
BIANCA!-fair Bianca!-who could dwellWith safety on her dark and hazel gaze,Nor find there lurk'd in it a witching spell,Fatal to ...
Beechenbrook – II (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
The feathery foliage has broadened its leaves, And June, with its beautiful mornings and eves, Its magical atmosphere, breezes and blooms, Its woods ...
How I Consulted The Oracle Of The Goldfishes (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What know we of the world immenseBeyond the narrow ring of sense?What should we know, who lounge aboutThe house we ...
Lily (Henry Lawson Poems)
I SCORN the man-a fool at most, And ignorant and blind-Who loves to go about and boast "He understands mankind."I thought I ...
Noey Bixler (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Another hero of those youthful yearsReturns, as Noey Bixler's name appears.And Noey--if in any special way--Was notably good-natured.--Work or playHe ...
To A Young Lady, With A Bottle Of Irish Usquebaugh (Hector MacNeill Poems)
"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus."In spite of all that poets tell us(For poets are but lying fellows)Of Cupid's flames, ...
To Eliza On Her Marriage (Hector MacNeill Poems)
You're now, Eliza, fix'd for life;In other words, you're now -- a wife;And let me whisper in your ear,A wife, ...
Rover (Henry Kendall Poems)
NO classic warrior tempts my pen To fill with verse these pages-No lordly-hearted man of men My Muse's thought engages.Let others choose ...
Billy’s Alphabetical Animal Show (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A was an elegant Ape Who tied up his ears with red tape, And wore a long veil Half revealing his tail Which was ...
Beechenbrook – V (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
"To-morrow is Christmas!"--and clapping his hands, Little Archie in joyful expectancy stands, And watches the shadows, now short and now tall, That momently ...
Grannie’s Tale: A Ballad o’Memorie (Janet Hamilton Poems)
The days o' langsyne, O! the days o' langsyne,Sweet thochts o' the bygane, I never sall tyne;Tho' darklin' I sit ...
January (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
They went to the January house, A house made all of snow, With windows of ice, and chandeliers Of icicles all in a ...
The Little White Doe (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
In the beautiful forest is strayingAn innocent little white doe,And the creature is happily playingWith the sunlight that flickereth so;The ...
Peter the Piccaninny (Henry Kendall Poems)
He has a name which can't be brought Within the sphere of metre;But, as he's Peter by report, I'll trot him out ...
An Orchard Dance (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
All work is over at the farmAnd men and maids are ripe for glee;Love slips among them sly and warmOr ...
The Titmouse (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
You shall not be overboldWhen you deal with arctic cold,As late I found my lukewarm bloodChilled wading in the snow-choked ...
Our Jack (Henry Kendall Poems)
Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night,Twelve years ago, the Spirit of the StormSobbed round our camp. A ...
Betzko (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
A HUNGARIAN LEGENDStibor had led in many a fight, And broken a score of swordsIn furious frays and bloody raids Against the ...
At Noey’s House (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
At Noey's house--when they arrived with him--How snug seemed everything, and neat and trim:The little picket-fence, and little gate--It's little ...
The Master Of The Grange (Hattie Howard Poems)
The type of enterprise is he, Of sense and thrift and toil; Who reckons less on pedigree Than rich, productive soil; And no "blue ...
Song For Th’ Hard Times, (1879.) (John Hartley Poems)
Nah chaps, pray dooant think it's a sarmon awm praichin, If aw tell yo some nooations at's entered mi pate;For ther's ...
The Parrot and the Billy-Goat (Henry Clay Work Poems)
There were no romping children at Doctor Quibble's door;Long past the silver wedding, no toys lay on the floor,But to ...
Three Little Nest Birds (Juliana Horatia Ewing Poems)
We meant to be very kind,But if ever we findAnother soft, grey-green, moss-coated, feather-lined nest in a hedge,We have taken ...
Come, Sing Australian songs to me! (John O Brien Poems)
Come, Little One, and sing to me A song our big wide land to bless,Around whose gentle parent-knee We've twined the flowers ...
Phases of Girlhood (Janet Hamilton Poems)
With fondest love and sweetest pleasureGaze I on my infant treasure—My sweetest rose, my purest pearl,Heaven's latest gift, my baby-girl.Opening ...
Come Thi Ways In (John Hartley Poems)
Come thi ways in, an God bless thi, lad! Come thi ways in, for thar't welcome, joy!A'a! tha'rt a shockin young ...