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At an Old Drawer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Before this scarf was faded,
What hours of mirth it knew;
How gayly it paraded
From smiling eyes..
At The Hop by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
‘Tis time to dress. Dost hear the music surging
Like sobbing waves that roll up from the sea?
Yes,..
As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring..
Adolescence II by Rita Dove
Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting.
Sweat prickles behind my knees, the baby-brea..
At an Old Drawer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Before this scarf was faded,
What hours of mirth it knew;
How gayly it paraded
From smiling eyes..
At The Hop by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
‘Tis time to dress. Dost hear the music surging
Like sobbing waves that roll up from the sea?
Yes,..
At the Zoo by A. A. Milne
There are lions and roaring tigers,
and enormous camels and things,
There are biffalo-buffalo-biso..
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Rich
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They d..
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by Adrienne Rich
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under dur..
An Essay On Criticism by Alexander Pope
’Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
Appear in Writing or in Judging ill,
But, of the two, l..
An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 by Alexander Pope
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition,..
Argus by Alexander Pope
When wise Ulysses, from his native coast
Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d,
Arrived..
A Bunch of Roses by Andrew Barton Paterson
Roses ruddy and roses white,
What are the joys that my heart discloses?
Sitting alone in the fad..
A Bush Christening by Andrew Barton Paterson
On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
And men of religion are scanty,
On a road never cr..
Any Other Time by Andrew Barton Paterson
ALL of us play our very best game—
Any other time.
Golf or billiards, it’s all the same—
Any o..
A Triolet by Andrew Barton Paterson
Of all the sickly forms of verse,
Commend me to the triolet.
It makes bad writers somewhat worse..
A Ballad of Ducks by Andrew Barton Paterson
The railway rattled and roared and swung
With jolting and bumping trucks.
The sun, like a billia..
A Dog's Mistake by Andrew Barton Paterson
He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide,
He was just a wand’ring mongrel from t..
An Emu Hunt by Andrew Barton Paterson
West of Dubbo the west begins
The land of leisure and hope and trust,
Where the black man stalks..
A Change of Menu by Andrew Barton Paterson
Now the new chum loaded his three-nought-three,
It’s a small-bore gun, but his hopes were big.
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