Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
First Child ... Second Child
FIRSTBe it a girl, or one of the boys,It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois,It is red, it is boiled; could the obstetricianHave possibly been a..
© Ogden Nash
Children's Party
May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?I wish to retire till the party's over.Since three o'clock I've done my bestTo entertain each tiny guest. My..
© Ogden Nash
I Didn't Go To Church Today
I didn't go to church today,I trust the Lord to understand.The surf was swirling blue and white,The children swirling on the sand.He knows, He knows..
© Ogden Nash
Crossing The Border
Senescence beginsAnd middle age endsThe day your descendentsOutnumber your friends.
© Ogden Nash
To My Valentine
More than a catbird hates a cat,Or a criminal hates a clue,Or the Axis hates the United States,That's how much I love you.I love you more than a duck..
© Ogden Nash
A Caution To Everybody
Consider the auk;Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.Consider man, who may well become extinctBecause he forgot how to..
© Ogden Nash
A Drink With Something In It
There is something about a Martini,A tingle remarkably pleasant;A yellow, a mellow Martini;I wish I had one at present.There is something about a..
© Ogden Nash
Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer
This is a song to celebrate banks,Because they are full of money and you go into them and allyou hear is clinks and clanks,Or maybe a sound like the..
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A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty
Unwillingly Miranda wakes,Feels the sun with terror,One unwilling step she takes,Shuddering to the mirror.Miranda in Miranda's sightIs old and gray..
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The Tale Of Custard The Dragon
Belinda lived in a little white house,With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,And a realio..
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Common Cold
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.!You shall not sneer at me.Pick up your hat and stethoscope,Go wash your mouth with laundry soap;I contemplate a joy..
© Ogden Nash
Always Marry An April Girl
Praise the spells and bless the charms,I found April in my arms.April golden, April cloudy,Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;April soft in flowered..
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A Word To Husbands
To keep your marriage brimmingWith love in the loving cup,Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;Whenever you’re right, shut up.
© Ogden Nash
Adventures Of Isabel
Isabel met an enormous bear,Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous,The bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous.The..
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Otho The Great - Act V
SCENE I.A part of the Forest.Enter CONRAD and AURANTHE.Auranthe. Go no further; not a step more; thou artA master-plague in the midst of miseries.Go..
© John Keats
Otho The Great - Act Iv
SCENE I.AURANTHE'S Apartment.AURANTHE and CONRAD discovered.Conrad. Well, well, I know what ugly jeopardyWe are cag'd in; you need not pester..
© John Keats
Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds
Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven,--the domainOf Cynthia,--the wide palace of the sun,--The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,--The bosomer of clouds..
© John Keats
Sonnet Xiii. Addressed To Haydon
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome alley, and in..
© John Keats
Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford
I.The Gothic looks solemn,The plain Doric columnSupports an old Bishop and Crosier;The mouldering arch,Shaded o'er by a larchStands next door to..
© John Keats
Sonnet Xiv. Addressed To The Same (Haydon)
Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,Catches his freshness from..
© John Keats
Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'D
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweetFetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;Let us find out, if we..
© John Keats
Sonnet. Written Before Re-Read King Lear
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute!Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away!Leave melodizing on this wintry day,Shut up thine olden pages, and be..
© John Keats
Otho The Great - Act Iii
SCENE I.The Country.Enter ALBERT.Albert. O that the earth were empty, as when CainHad no perplexity to hide his head!Or that the sword of some brave..
© John Keats