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On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There’s a Nong Nang..
Our Bog Is Dood by Stevie Smith
Our Bog is dood, our Bog is dood,
They lisped in accents mild,
But when I asked them to explain
T..
On a Fine Morning by Thomas Hardy
Whence comes Solace?--Not from seeing
What is doing, suffering, being,
Not from noting Life’s co..
On an Invitation to the United States by Thomas Hardy
I
My ardours for emprize nigh lost
Since Life has bared its bones to me,
I shrink to seek a..
O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W. H. Auden
Some say love’s a little boy,
And some say it’s a bird,
Some say it makes the world go around,
..
O What Is That Sound by W. H. Auden
O what is that sound which so thrills the ear
Down in the valley drumming, drumming?
Only the sc..
O Where Are You Going? by W. H. Auden
"O where are you going?" said reader to rider,
"That valley is fatal when furnaces burn,
Yonder’s..
Old People's Home by W. H. Auden
All are limitory, but each has her own
nuance of damage. The elite can dress and decent themselves..
On the Circuit by W. H. Auden
Among pelagian travelers,
Lost on their lewd conceited way
To Massachusetts, Michigan,
Miami o..
One Evening by W. H. Auden
As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fi..
Of Modern Poetry by Wallace Stevens
The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the s..
Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
Three jolly Farmers
Once bet a pound
Each dance the others would
Off the ground.
Out of thei..
Old Susan by Walter de la Mare
When Susan’s work was done, she’d sit
With one fat guttering candle lit,
And window opened wide..
Objector by William Stafford
In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon
to ward off complicity--the ordered life
our leaders ha..
Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees by William Shakespeare
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did s..
Orpheus by William Shakespeare
? or John Fletcher.
ORPHEUS with his lute made trees
And the mountain tops that freeze
Bow t..
Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives by William Carlos Williams
Men with picked voices chant the names
of cities in a huge gallery: promises
that pull through d..
Old Tom Again by William Butler Yeats
Things out of perfection sail,
And all their swelling canvas wear,
Nor shall the self-begotten fai..
Owen Aherne And His Dancers by William Butler Yeats
I
A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in..
On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats
I think it better that in times like these
A poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift..
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