Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House

Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House The neighbors' dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic b...

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A Golden Orb Surrounds the Hue

A Golden Orb Surrounds the Hue A golden orb surrounded the hue And silver auras filled the blue The moon gave a somber clue Broken images fo...

a man who had fallen among thieves

a man who had fallen among thieves a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing...

And the moon was sleeping

and the moon was sleeping La existencia es un momento de luz que nos fue dado --- Eduardo Gomez luminous you enter the doorway of my dream y...

A Song Of Life

In the rapture of life and of living, I lift up my head and rejoice, And I thank the great Giver for giving The soul of my gladness a voice....

Life Is A Privilege

Life is a privilege. Its youthful days Shine with the radiance of continuous Mays. To live, to breathe, to wonder and desire, To feed with d...

Life's Progress

How gayly is at first begun Our Life's uncertain Race! Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun, With which we just set out to run Enlighte...

All My Past Life

All my past life is mine no more, The flying hours are gone, Like transitory dreams given o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory...

A Country Life

A bird that I don't know, Hunched on his light-pole like a scarecrow, Looks sideways out into the wheat The wind waves under the waves o...

From “Later Life”

We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things we do not yearn to see Around us: and ...

The Poetry Of Life

Who would himself with shadows entertain, Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain, Or nurse false hopes that do but cheat the true?-...

They May Rail at this Life

They may rail at this life -- from the hour I began it I found it a life full of kindness and bliss; And, until they can show me some happie...

Life's Tragedy

It may be misery not to sing at all, And to go silent through the brimming day; It may be misery never to be loved, But deeper griefs than t...

This Life Is All Chequer'd With Pleasures and Woes

This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes, That chase one another like waves of the deep -- Each brightly or darkly, as onward ...

The Triumph of Life

Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, & the mask Of darkness ...

Life in a Bottle

Escape me? Never-- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth, While the ...

Death And Life

Twas in the grave-yard's gruesome gloom That May and I were mated; We sneaked inside and on a tomb Our love was consummated. It's qu...

The Hippopotamus

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans. The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on ...

A Song Of The Sandbags

No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh (The cove be'ind the sandbags ain't a death-or-glory cuss). And though I stra...

Oh Susana!

I came from Alabama wid my banjo on my knee, I'm g'wan to Louisiana, My true love for to see, It raind all night the day I left The ...

Funny -- to be a Century

Funny -- to be a Century -- And see the People -- going by -- I -- should die of the Oddity But then -- I'm not so staid -- as He He kee...

How doth the little crocodile

How doth the little crocodile... How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden sca...

Child of Europe

We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day. Who in May admire trees flowering Are better than those who perished. We, who taste of exoti...

I Dream of Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair

I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air; I see her tripping where the bright streams play, Happy...

Sonnet VII Love in a Humour

Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the company withal, Invites my Heart to be ...

For Some Poems

Sweeping the chords of Hellas with firm hand, He wakes lost echoes from song's classic shore, And brings their crystal cadence back once...

The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"

It was our war-ship Clampherdown Would sweep the Channel clean, Wherefore she kept her hatches close When the merry Channel chops arose, To ...

Melange adultere de tout

En Amerique, professeur; En Angleterre, journaliste; C'est A grands pas et en sueur Que vous suivrez A peine ma piste. En Yorkshire, con...

The Lover in Hell

Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little devils are! They've stolen the pi...

The Plot Against the Giant

First Girl When this yokel comes maundering, Whetting his hacker, I shall run before him, Diffusing the civilest odors Out of geraniums and ...

On the Ning Nang Nong

On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There's a Nong Nang Ning Where the trees go Ping! And the tea...

Hay and Hell and Booligal

You come and see me, boys," he said; "You'll find a welcome and a bed And whisky any time you call; Although our township hasn...

Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Gr-r-r--there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would...

There Once Was A Man From Nantucket

There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all of his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bu...

The Vision of Judgment

I Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate: His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull, So little trouble had been given of late; Not that the ...

Dream Within A Dream English Poem

Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dre...