TENNIS POEMS
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Freddy
Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy
I cannot make anyone understand
I love him sub specie aet ernitaties
I love him out of hand.
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Stevie Smith
Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy
I cannot make anyone understand
I love him sub specie aet ernitaties
I love him out of hand.
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Stevie Smith
Croquet
In a garden where the may made the straggling fences gay
And the roses cream and scarlet shed their petals on the breeze
Your maiden aunts and I, and you, demure and shy,
Played a sober game of croquet underneath the spreading trees.
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Alice Guerin Crist
In a garden where the may made the straggling fences gay
And the roses cream and scarlet shed their petals on the breeze
Your maiden aunts and I, and you, demure and shy,
Played a sober game of croquet underneath the spreading trees.
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Alice Guerin Crist
Parties: A Hymn Of Hate
I hate Parties;
They bring out the worst in me.
There is the Novelty Affair,
Given by the woman
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Dorothy Parker
I hate Parties;
They bring out the worst in me.
There is the Novelty Affair,
Given by the woman
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Dorothy Parker
Legs And The Man
Alas, my dear, be you high-born,
Or just a Sydney cutie,
I fear you've earned a he-man's scorn
Thro' failing in your duty.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Alas, my dear, be you high-born,
Or just a Sydney cutie,
I fear you've earned a he-man's scorn
Thro' failing in your duty.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
The Olive Tree
Save for a lusterless honing-stone of moon
The sky stretches its flawless canopy
Blue as the blue silk of the Jewish flag
Over the valley and out to sea.
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Karl Shapiro
Save for a lusterless honing-stone of moon
The sky stretches its flawless canopy
Blue as the blue silk of the Jewish flag
Over the valley and out to sea.
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Karl Shapiro
Myfanwy
Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy,
White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress,
Fresh from the bathroom and soft in the nursery
Soap scented fingers I long to caress.
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John Betjeman
Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy,
White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress,
Fresh from the bathroom and soft in the nursery
Soap scented fingers I long to caress.
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John Betjeman
The New School
(For My Mother)
The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet
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Joyce Kilmer
(For My Mother)
The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet
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Joyce Kilmer
Spleen
I'm like the king of a rain-country, rich
but sterile, young but with an old wolf's itch,
one who escapes Fénelon's apologues,
and kills the day in boredom with his dogs;
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Charles Baudelaire
I'm like the king of a rain-country, rich
but sterile, young but with an old wolf's itch,
one who escapes Fénelon's apologues,
and kills the day in boredom with his dogs;
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Charles Baudelaire
Nostos
There was an apple tree in the yard --
this would have been
forty years ago -- behind,
only meadows. Drifts
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Louise Gluck
There was an apple tree in the yard --
this would have been
forty years ago -- behind,
only meadows. Drifts
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Louise Gluck
A Game Of Lawn Tennis
What wonder that I should be dreaming
Out here in the garden to-day?
The light through the leaves is streaming,--
Paulina cries, "Play!"
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Amy Levy
What wonder that I should be dreaming
Out here in the garden to-day?
The light through the leaves is streaming,--
Paulina cries, "Play!"
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Amy Levy
Thick-headed Thoughts
No. I
I've something of the bull-dog in my breed,
The spaniel is developed somewhat less;
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Adam Lindsay Gordon
No. I
I've something of the bull-dog in my breed,
The spaniel is developed somewhat less;
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Adam Lindsay Gordon
Ballade Of The Girton Girl
She has just “put her gown on” at Girton,
She is learned in Latin and Greek,
But lawn tennis she plays with a skirt on
That the prudish remark with a shriek.
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Andrew Lang
She has just “put her gown on” at Girton,
She is learned in Latin and Greek,
But lawn tennis she plays with a skirt on
That the prudish remark with a shriek.
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Andrew Lang
His Shield
The pin-swin or spine-swine
(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out,
echidna and echinoderm in distressed-
pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny pig or porcupine,
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Marianne Moore
The pin-swin or spine-swine
(the edgehog miscalled hedgehog) with all his edges out,
echidna and echinoderm in distressed-
pin-cushion thorn-fur coats, the spiny pig or porcupine,
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Marianne Moore
The Princess (part Iii)
Morn in the wake of the morning star
Came furrowing all the orient into gold.
We rose, and each by other drest with care
Descended to the court that lay three parts
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
Morn in the wake of the morning star
Came furrowing all the orient into gold.
We rose, and each by other drest with care
Descended to the court that lay three parts
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: Canto Ii
I.
If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight;
For the gay beams of lightsome day
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Walter Scott (sir)
I.
If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight;
For the gay beams of lightsome day
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Walter Scott (sir)
Mr. Francis Beaumont's Letter To Ben Jonson
The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring
To absent friends (because the self-same thing
They know they see, however absent), is
Here our best hay-maker (forgive me this,
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Francis Beaumont
The sun, which doth the greatest comfort bring
To absent friends (because the self-same thing
They know they see, however absent), is
Here our best hay-maker (forgive me this,
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Francis Beaumont
An English Girl
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,
In her magnificent comeliness,
Is an English girl of eleven stone two,
And five foot ten in her dancing shoe!
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William Schwenck Gilbert
A wonderful joy our eyes to bless,
In her magnificent comeliness,
Is an English girl of eleven stone two,
And five foot ten in her dancing shoe!
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William Schwenck Gilbert
The Corpse That Won't Lie Still
Aye, call it murder is ye will!
'Tis not the crime I fear.
If his cold curse would but lie still
And silent in its bier,
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Aye, call it murder is ye will!
'Tis not the crime I fear.
If his cold curse would but lie still
And silent in its bier,
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Far-darting Apollo
I saw the sun step like a gentleman
Dressed in black and proud as sin.
I saw the sun walk across London
Like a young M. P., risen to the occasion.
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Kathleen Jessie Raine
I saw the sun step like a gentleman
Dressed in black and proud as sin.
I saw the sun walk across London
Like a young M. P., risen to the occasion.
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Kathleen Jessie Raine
Beautiful Crief
Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief,
Take my advice, and visit the ancient town of Crieff;
The climate is bracing, and the walks lovely to see.
Besides, ye can ramble over the district, and view the beautiful scenery.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
Ye lovers of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief,
Take my advice, and visit the ancient town of Crieff;
The climate is bracing, and the walks lovely to see.
Besides, ye can ramble over the district, and view the beautiful scenery.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
A Thermometrical Ballade
Thereâ??s a wind up that licks like a flame,
And the sun is a porthole of hell.
Now evanish prim notions of shame,
And the craving to look rather well â??
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Edward George Dyson
Thereâ??s a wind up that licks like a flame,
And the sun is a porthole of hell.
Now evanish prim notions of shame,
And the craving to look rather well â??
.....
Edward George Dyson
The Merry Sportsmen
'Arry an' me is bits of sports;
When the summer comes around
We gits our sweaters an' guns an' shorts
An' we seeks out 'untin' ground.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
'Arry an' me is bits of sports;
When the summer comes around
We gits our sweaters an' guns an' shorts
An' we seeks out 'untin' ground.
.....
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
The Bride's Prelude
â??Sister,â? said busy Amelotte
To listless Aloÿse;
â??Along your wedding-road the wheat
Bends as to hear your horse's feet,
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
â??Sister,â? said busy Amelotte
To listless Aloÿse;
â??Along your wedding-road the wheat
Bends as to hear your horse's feet,
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Spleen (iii)
Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,
Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,
Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,
S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes.
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Charles Baudelaire
Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,
Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,
Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,
S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes.
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Charles Baudelaire
Antony Villa
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,
With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in the gardens:
They are gentlemen and ladiesâ??theyâ??ve been â??toffsâ?? for generations,
But old Vardenâ??s been unluckyâ??lost a lot in speculations.
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Henry Lawson
Over there, above the jetty, stands the mansion of the Vardens,
With a tennis ground and terrace, and a flagstaff in the gardens:
They are gentlemen and ladiesâ??theyâ??ve been â??toffsâ?? for generations,
But old Vardenâ??s been unluckyâ??lost a lot in speculations.
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Henry Lawson
Will Consider Situation
There here are words of radical advice for a young man looking for a job;
Young man, be a snob.
Yes, if you are in search of arguments against starting at the bottom,
Why I've gottem.
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Ogden Nash
There here are words of radical advice for a young man looking for a job;
Young man, be a snob.
Yes, if you are in search of arguments against starting at the bottom,
Why I've gottem.
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Ogden Nash
Sudden Things
A storm was coming, that was why it was dark. The wind was blowing the fronds of the palm trees off. They were maples. I looked out the window across the big lawn. The house was huge, full of children and old people. The lion was loose. Either because of the wind, or by malevolent human energy, which is the same thing, the cage had come open. Suppose a child walked outside!
A child walked outside. I knew that I must protect him from the lion. I threw myself on top of the child. The lion roared over me. In the branches and the bushes there was suddenly a loud crackling. The lion cringed. I looked up and saw that the elephant was loose!
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Donald Hall
A storm was coming, that was why it was dark. The wind was blowing the fronds of the palm trees off. They were maples. I looked out the window across the big lawn. The house was huge, full of children and old people. The lion was loose. Either because of the wind, or by malevolent human energy, which is the same thing, the cage had come open. Suppose a child walked outside!
A child walked outside. I knew that I must protect him from the lion. I threw myself on top of the child. The lion roared over me. In the branches and the bushes there was suddenly a loud crackling. The lion cringed. I looked up and saw that the elephant was loose!
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Donald Hall
Prologue To Sophonisba; Spoken At Oxford, 1680
Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes, sung ballads from a cart.
To prove this true, if Latin be no trespass,
Dicitur et plaustris vexisse poemata Thespis.
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John Dryden
Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes, sung ballads from a cart.
To prove this true, if Latin be no trespass,
Dicitur et plaustris vexisse poemata Thespis.
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John Dryden
The Philistine
Smith is a very stupid man;
He lives next door to me;
He has no settled scheme or plan
Of domesticity.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Smith is a very stupid man;
He lives next door to me;
He has no settled scheme or plan
Of domesticity.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
To A Downfallen Rose
When I laid aside the verses of Mimnermus,
I lived a life of canned heat and raw hands,
alone, not far from my body did I wander,
walked with a hope of a sudden dreamy forest of gold.
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Gregory Corso
When I laid aside the verses of Mimnermus,
I lived a life of canned heat and raw hands,
alone, not far from my body did I wander,
walked with a hope of a sudden dreamy forest of gold.
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Gregory Corso
His Room
His room is as it used to be
Before he went away,
The walls still keep the pennants he
Brought home but yesterday.
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Edgar Albert Guest
His room is as it used to be
Before he went away,
The walls still keep the pennants he
Brought home but yesterday.
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Edgar Albert Guest
Ain't That Bad?
Dancin' the funky chicken
Eatin' ribs and tips
Diggin' all the latest sounds
And drinkin' gin in sips.
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Maya Angelou
Dancin' the funky chicken
Eatin' ribs and tips
Diggin' all the latest sounds
And drinkin' gin in sips.
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Maya Angelou
The Man And The Ants
I was sitting for ages on a bench
In a bus station
An able bodied man
Approached me for a donation
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Rose Marie Juan Austin
I was sitting for ages on a bench
In a bus station
An able bodied man
Approached me for a donation
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Rose Marie Juan Austin
Half Naked Without A Hat
One hot summer day
At the carnival
I saw the teenage boy
Who had a big crush
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Rose Marie Juan Austin
One hot summer day
At the carnival
I saw the teenage boy
Who had a big crush
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Rose Marie Juan Austin
A Thermometrical Ballade
There's a wind up that licks like a flame,
And the sun is a porthole of hell.
Now evanish prim notions of shame,
And the craving to look rather well,
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Edward Dyson
There's a wind up that licks like a flame,
And the sun is a porthole of hell.
Now evanish prim notions of shame,
And the craving to look rather well,
.....
Edward Dyson
Dinner At Eight
At times, I thought of swizzling white rum
in the tropics (not as a vocation),
dropping into the club
for a round of tennis
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Paul Cameron Brown
At times, I thought of swizzling white rum
in the tropics (not as a vocation),
dropping into the club
for a round of tennis
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Paul Cameron Brown
The Loop
From State street bridge a snow-white glimpse of sea
Beyond the river walled in by red buildings,
O'ertopped by masts that take the sunset's gildings,
Roped to the wharf till spring shall set them free.
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Edgar Lee Masters
From State street bridge a snow-white glimpse of sea
Beyond the river walled in by red buildings,
O'ertopped by masts that take the sunset's gildings,
Roped to the wharf till spring shall set them free.
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Edgar Lee Masters
Lawn Tennis In The Temple Gardens
Not in contempt but to our sport inclined
Smile on us, shades of Judges short and tall
Portrayed on windows of the Temple Hall;
There was a time that ye grave thoughts resigned,
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James Williams
Not in contempt but to our sport inclined
Smile on us, shades of Judges short and tall
Portrayed on windows of the Temple Hall;
There was a time that ye grave thoughts resigned,
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James Williams
The Coroner
Merival, of a mother fair and good,
A father sound in body and in mind,
Rich through three thousand acres left to him
By that same father dying, mother dead
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Edgar Lee Masters
Merival, of a mother fair and good,
A father sound in body and in mind,
Rich through three thousand acres left to him
By that same father dying, mother dead
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Edgar Lee Masters
Athletes And Aesthesis
An Idyll of the Cam.
It was an Undergraduate, his years were scarce nineteen;
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Edward Woodley Bowling
An Idyll of the Cam.
It was an Undergraduate, his years were scarce nineteen;
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Edward Woodley Bowling
The Mouse Metamorphosed Into A Maid
[1]
A mouse once from an owl's beak fell;
I'd not have pick'd it up, I wis;
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Jean De La Fontaine
[1]
A mouse once from an owl's beak fell;
I'd not have pick'd it up, I wis;
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Jean De La Fontaine