The Vicar (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
SOME years ago, ere time and tasteHad turn'd our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
Smoking Poems (207 Poems)
The Story Of The “Orient” (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
'T was a pleasant Sunday morning while the spring was in its glory,English spring of gentle glory; smoking by his ...
The Dispute (Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov Poems)
Once 'mid group of native mountains Hot dispute arose,Elbrus, angry, did with Kasbek Argument propose."Now beware!" the hoary Elbrus, Warning did exclaim--"To enslave ...
On Looking East To The Sea With A Sunset Behind Me (John Anthony Ciardi Poems)
IIn a detachment cool as the glint of lighton wet roads through wet spruce, or iced mountainshailed from the sea ...
A Radical War Song (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Awake, arise, the hour is come,For rows and revolutions;There's no receipt like pike and drumFor crazy constitutions.Close, close the shop! ...
A Backward Look (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
As I sat smoking, alone, yesterday, And lazily leaning back in my chair, Enjoying myself in a general way-- Allowing my thoughts a ...
John Robinson (Julia A Moore Poems)
AIR — "The Drunkard"Come listen, friends, and hear a song, It is a doleful one,About a young man, dead and gone ...
Gloria! (Patience Worth Poems)
Oh, ye mighty walls and towering spires!Astride the cowled gabled ways;Thy emblazoned scripts depictingFanciful reaction of ancient times;Smoking altars upon ...
The Boundary Rider (Thomas William Heney Poems)
THE BRIDLE reins hang loose in the hold of his lean left hand;As the tether gives, the horse bends browsing ...
Eliza Harris’ Parental Love (James Madison Bell Poems)
When February's chilling winds Swept through the forest glen,And nothing, save the smoking hut, Marked the abodes of men,I through my lattice ...
The Fly (Karl Shapiro Poems)
O hideous little bat, the size of snot,With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,To populate the stinking cat you walkThe promontory ...
Scott of the Queensland Mounted (Lex McLennan Poems)
As straight as a mountain sapling, resolute, tall and brown,was Scott of the Queensland Mounted, the Sergeant of Sunrise town;and ...
Old Song (Edward Fitzgerald Poems)
TIS a dull sight To see the year dying,When winter winds Set the yellow wood sighing: Sighing, O sighing!When such a time cometh I ...
A Lower Eastside Poem (Miguel Pinero Poems)
Just once before I dieI want to climb up on atenement skyto dream my lungs out tillI crythen scatter my ...
Paean (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
NOW, joy and thanks forevermore!The dreary night has wellnigh passed,The slumbers of the North are o'er,The Giant stands erect at ...
Winter Dawn (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
AT five I wake, rise, rub on the smoking paneA port to see-water breathing in the air,Boughs broken. The sun ...
The Song of the Camp (James Bayard Taylor Poems)
"GIVE us a song!" the soldiers cried, The outer trenches guarding,When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding.The ...
The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches (Heinrich Hoffmann Poems)
It almost makes me cry to tellWhat foolish Harriet befell.Mamma and Nurse went out one dayAnd left her all alone ...
The Mystery Of Gilgal (John Hay Poems)
The darkest, strangest mysteryI ever read, or heern, or see,Is 'long of a drink at Taggart's Hall,-- Tom Taggart's of Gilgal.I've ...
The Prairie on Fire (Phoebe Cary Poems)
The long grass burned brownIn the summer's fierce heat,Snaps brittle and dry'Neath the traveller's feet,As over the prairie,Through all the ...
The Sunday Rail: I (Janet Hamilton Poems)
Now range up the carriages, feed up the fires!To the rail, to the rail, now the pent up desiresOf the ...
Cavalry Charge–Koniggratz (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
We stood, as the helmeted horsemen Formed up in the light of the sun;We knelt, stretching bayonets towards them As they charged, ...
Love and Lucre (John Godfrey Saxe Poems)
Love and Lucre met one day,In chill November weather,And so, to wile the time away,They held discourse together.Love at first ...
To The Additional Examiner For 1875 (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
Queen Cram went strayingWhere Tait was swaying,In just hands weighing,With care immense,Dry proofs made pleasantBy Routh or BesantFor one who ...
Tasting the Earth (James Oppenheim Poems)
In a dark hour, tasting the Earth.As I lay on my couch in the muffled night, and the rain lashed ...
The Meadows In Spring (Edward Fitzgerald Poems)
'Tis a dull sightTo see the year dying,When winter windsSet the yellow wood sighing:Sighing, oh! sighing.When such a time cometh,I ...
Night Of Sine (Leopold Sedhar Senghor Poems)
Woman, put on my forehead your balsam hands,your hands softer than fur.Up there, the tall palm trees swinging in the ...
To My Friend – Ode III (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
BE void of feeling!A heart that soon is stirr'd,Is a possession sadUpon this changing earth.Behrisch, let spring's sweet smileNever gladden ...
The Herd (John Freeman Poems)
The roaming sheep, forbidden to roam far,Were stayed within the shadow of his eye.The sheep-dog on that unseen shadow's edgeMoved, ...
Pitchin’ at the Church (John O Brien Poems)
On the Sunday morning mustered,Yarning at our ease;Buggies, traps and jinkers clusteredUnderneath the trees,Horses tethered to the fences;Thus we hold ...