Innocence (Robert William Service Poems)
The height of wisdom seems to me That of a child; So let my ageing vision be Serene and mild. ...
Science Poems (546 Poems)
Mohammed Bek Hadjetlache (Carl Sandburg Poems)
THIS Mohammedan colonel from the Caucasus yells with his voice and wigwags with his arms. The interpreter translates, "I was ...
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs (Carl Sandburg Poems)
RUM tiddy um, tiddy um, tiddy um tum tum. My knees are loose-like, my feet want to sling their selves. ...
The Flying Dutchman (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Unyielding in the pride of his defiance, Afloat with none to serve or to command, Lord of himself at last, ...
Captain Craig (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Avon’s Harvest (Edwin Arlington Robinson Poems)
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Millenial Hymn to Lord Shiva (Kathleen Raine Poems)
Earth no longer hymns the Creator, the seven days of wonder, the Garden is over - all the stories are ...
Male Fashions for 1799 (Mary Darby Robinson Poems)
Crops like hedgehogs, high-crown'd hats, Whispers like Jew MOSES ; Padded collars, thick cravats, And cheeks as red as roses. ...
The Hypnotist (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
A man once read with mind surprised Of the way that people were "hypnotised"; By waving hands you produced, forsooth, ...
An Essay On Criticism (Alexander Pope Poems)
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) (Alexander Pope Poems)
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle, (Alexander Pope Poems)
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...
The Geebung Polo Club (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub, That they formed an institution called the ...
Investigating Flora (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
Johnson’s Antidote (Andrew Barton Paterson Poems)
Down along the Snakebite River, where the overlanders camp, Where the serpents are in millions, all of the most deadly ...
Neither Bloody Nor Bowed (Dorothy Parker Poems)
They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends ...
Look What You Did, Christopher! (Ogden Nash Poems)
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Someone sailed the ocean blue. Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain For a business trip ...
The Purist (Ogden Nash Poems)
I give you now Professor Twist, A conscientious scientist, Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!" And sent him off to distant ...
Sonnet – To Science (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus ...
Al Aaraaf (Edgar Allan Poe Poems)
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Modern Love XXX: What Are We First (George Meredith Poems)
What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of ...
Tristia (Osip Mandelstam Poems)
I have studied the Science of departures, in night's sorrows, when a woman's hair falls down. The oxen chew, there's ...
State’s Attorney Fallas (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable ...
The Fortune-Teller (Thomas Moore Poems)
Down in the valley come meet me to-night, And I'll tell you your fortune truly As ever 'twas told, by ...
Dr. Sigmund Freud Discovers the Sea Shell (Archibald MacLeish Poems)
Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is for: Enough for her devotions that things are And ...
Paradise Lost: Book 09 (John Milton Poems)
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Africa (Claude McKay Poems)
The sun sought thy dim bed and brought forth light, The sciences were sucklings at thy breast; When all the ...
Marriage (Marianne Moore Poems)
This institution, perhaps one should say enterprise out of respect for which one says one need not change one's mind ...
The Mocking-Bird (Sidney Lanier Poems)
Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray That o'er the general leafage boldly grew, He summ'd the woods in song; ...
The Symphony (Sidney Lanier Poems)
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...