The City Streets (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
Teachers Poems (374 Poems)
March (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
The March house, strangely, was built in a tree, With a fluttering roof of leaves, And strong, straight boughs for the walls ...
May (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
A green-thatched cottage was May's sweet home With velvet moss for a floor, And a clambering vine in the gay sunshine, And a ...
Death & Fame (Allen Ginsberg Poems)
When I dieI don't care what happens to my bodythrow ashes in the air, scatter 'em in East Riverbury an ...
September (Nancy Byrd Turner Poems)
Very familiar September seemed: A flag-pole stood in the yard, And the little path that led from the road Was trampled bare and ...
From The Conspirator (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
SCENE..CATHARINE.Art thou prepared to risk ...
Festus – XLIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
“Friday Afternoon” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
To William Morris PiersonOf the wealth of facts and fancies That our memories may recall,The old school-day romances Are the dearest, after ...
Poem About My Rights (June Jordan Poems)
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clearmy head about this poem about why I can'tgo out ...
The Life Of Lincoln West (Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks Poems)
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
Solitude (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
I KNOW a little patch of mountain ground.Low-settled by itself; and MoosilaukeStands boldly in the west but never seesIts little ...
Uncle Mart’s Poem (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
THE OLD SNOW-MANHo! the old Snow-Man That Noey Bixler made!He looked as fierce and sassy As a soldier on parade!--'Cause Noey, when ...
The Old Bush School (John O Brien Poems)
'Tis a queer, old battered landmark that belongs to other years;With the dog-leg fence around it, and its hat about ...
The Pastoral Letter (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
So, this is all, - the utmost reachOf priestly power the mind to fetter!When laymen think, when women preach,A war ...
The Negro Has A Chance (Maggie Pogue Johnson Poems)
As my mind in fancy wanders,While we figure on Life's stage,While in queries deep we ponder,O'er the past years ripe ...
The Dean’s Brother (John Hartley Poems)
A little lad, but thinly clad, All day had roamed the street;With stitled groans and aching bones, He beg'd for bread to ...
The ‘Soldier Birds’ (Henry Lawson Poems)
I mind the river from Mount Frome To Ballanshantie's Bridge,The Mudgee Hills, and Buckaroo, Lowe's Peak, and Granite Ridge.The "tailers" in the ...
To My Old Readers (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
You know "The Teacups," that congenial setWhich round the Teapot you have often met;The grave DICTATOR, him you knew of ...
Pigeon Toes (Henry Lawson Poems)
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
Hymn (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Who shall commemorate all Thy chosen namesThou who art Sire at once and Son of man?Servant, friend, brother, bridegroom, husband, ...
The Difference (Jared Barhite Poems)
I have scanned the roll of teachers, Have noted the Aarons and Hurs Who have stayed education's Moses, And removed the cumbrous bars That ...
The Unhappy One (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"HE is false to the heart!" she said, stern-lipped; "he is all untruth;He promises fair as a tree in blossom, ...
Ode VII: To The Right Reverend Benjamin Lord Bishop Of Winchester (Mark Akenside Poems)
I. 1.For toils which patriots have endur'd,For treason quell'd and laws secur'd,In every nation Time displaysThe palm of honourable praise.Envy ...
On The Pulse Of Morning (Maya Angelou Poems)
A Rock, A River, A TreeHosts to species long since departed,Mark the mastodon.The dinosaur, who left dry tokensOf their sojourn ...
To a Mountain (Henry Kendall Poems)
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
Some Characters I Much Adore (Jared Barhite Poems)
An honest man with noble mind, With heart sincere, true, and refined, Who lives for God and all mankind, Who cares for rich ...
Prologue To The Argive Women (Maurice Hewlett Poems)
(Odysseus before the House of Paris.)OD. About this wicked house ten yearsThe strife 'twixt Troy and Greece has surgedSince rifling Paris, ...
Some Characters I Can’t Admire (Jared Barhite Poems)
The seeming saint with long drawn face, Who thinks that he has so much grace He should be throned on highest place To ...
A Sabbath Scene (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
SCARCE had the solemn Sabbath-bellCeased quivering in the steeple,Scarce had the parson to his deskWalked stately through his people,When down ...
The Farmer’s Daughter Cherry (Isabella Valancy Crawford Poems)
The Farmer quit what he was at, The bee-hive he was smokin':He tilted back his old straw hat-- Says he, "Young man, ...