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Winter Complaint by Ogden Nash
Now when I have a cold
I am careful with my cold,
I consult a physician
And I do as I am told...
Will Consider Situation by Ogden Nash
There here are words of radical advice for a young man looking for a job;
Young man, be a snob.
Ye..
What's The Use? by Ogden Nash
Sure, deck your limbs in pants,
Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.
You look divine as you advance ...
What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner Or Later by Ogden Nash
Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with.
And with whom they breakfast wi..
White Night by Mary Oliver
All night
I float
in the shallow ponds
while the moon wanders
burning,
bone white,
among the..
Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End? by Mary Oliver
Don’t call this world adorable, or useful, that’s not it.
It’s frisky, and a theater for more than..
Walking To Oak-Head Pond, And Thinking Of The Ponds I Will Visit In The Next Days And Weeks by Mary
What is so utterly invisible
as tomorrow?
Not love,
not the wind,
not the inside of a stone.
..
Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the..
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the..
When Death Comes by Mary Oliver
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins f..
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We
Left School. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. W..
Work for Immortality by Emily Dickinson
Some -- Work for Immortality --
The Chiefer part, for Time --
He -- Compensates -- immediately --
..
"Was not" was all the Statement. by Emily Dickinson
"Was not" was all the Statement.
The Unpretension stuns --
Perhaps -- the Comprehension --
They w..
Would you like summer? Taste of ours. by Emily Dickinson
Would you like summer? Taste of ours.
Spices? Buy here!
Ill! We have berries, for the parching!
W..
Why -- do they shut Me out of Heaven? by Emily Dickinson
Why -- do they shut Me out of Heaven?
Did I sing -- too loud?
But -- I can say a little "Minor"
T..
Whose cheek is this? by Emily Dickinson
Whose cheek is this?
What rosy face
Has lost a blush today?
I found her -- "pleiad" -- in the woo..
Who never lost, are unprepared by Emily Dickinson
Who never lost, are unprepared
A Coronet to find!
Who never thirsted
Flagons, and Cooling Tamarin..
Which misses most, by Emily Dickinson
Which misses most,
The hand that tends,
Or heart so gently borne,
’Tis twice as heavy as it was
..
Which is best? Heaven -- by Emily Dickinson
Which is best? Heaven --
Or only Heaven to come
With that old Codicil of Doubt?
I cannot help est..
Whether my bark went down at sea by Emily Dickinson
Whether my bark went down at sea --
Whether she met with gales --
Whether to isles enchanted
She..
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