Poems about Life

• The Bushfire

            THE AIM
  Let's have a tiny little bush fire.

  by C J Dennis 44 lines
• Greenwich Village

  Way down in Greenwich Village
  There's something, 'twould appear,

  by P G Wodehouse 26 lines
• For One Night Only (A Tragedy)

  I met him in a crowd;
  As if with care 'twas weighted,

  by P G Wodehouse 79 lines
• Dinner and Dinty

  He dreaded not dark, nor the lonely road,
    For the world, as he knew it, was kind.

  by C J Dennis 34 lines
• Oliver Singing

  Oliver's singing
  Comes down to my study,

  by Israel Zangwill 23 lines
• The Perfect Playmate

  Roger Charles Noel Bellingham. Before Ypres, March 4th, 1915
  The Perfect Playmate, whither does he stray

  by Katharine Tynan 28 lines
• A Symbol of Immortality

  A wave far out upon the smiling blue,
  Looks faint at first on Ocean's dimpled floor,

  by Washington Van Dusen 14 lines
• The Wonder-Working War

  Men looked with horror on their darkened skies,
  But Freedom called them and they laid aside

  by Washington Van Dusen 14 lines

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