All Poems
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Introspective Reflection
© Ogden Nash
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan Would Sit on the Midget's Lap
© Ogden Nash
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I Do, I Will, I Have
© Ogden Nash
How wise I am to have instructed the butler
to instruct the first footman to instruct the second
footman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;
I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.
I Didn't Go To Church Today
© Ogden Nash
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.
Grandpa Is Ashamed
© Ogden Nash
A child need not be very clever
To learn that "Later, dear" means "Never."
Goody for Our Side and Your Side Too
© Ogden Nash
Foreigners are people somewhere else,
Natives are people at home;
If the place youre at
Is your habitat,
Good-By Now or Pardon My Gauntlet
© Ogden Nash
Bring down the moon for genteel Janet;
She's too refined for this gross planet.
She wears garments and you wear clothes,
You buy stockings, she purchases hose.
First Child ... Second Child
© Ogden Nash
Arrived this evening at half-past nine.
Everybody is doing fine.
Is it a boy, or quite the reverse?
You can call in the morning and ask the nurse.
Family Court
© Ogden Nash
One would be in less danger
From the wiles of a stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with.
Everybody Tells Me Everything
© Ogden Nash
I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Mi Villa
© Ramon Lopez Velarde
Si yo jamás hubiera salido de mi villa,
con una santa esposa tendría refrigerio
de conocer el mundo por un solo hemisferio.
On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations
© Robert Frost
You'll wait a long, long time for anything much
To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
The Old Women Of The Ocean
© Pablo Neruda
To the solemn sea the old women come
With their shawls knotted around their necks
With their fragile feet cracking.
Lost and Found
© George MacDonald
I missed him when the sun began to bend;
I found him not when I had lost his rim;
Stray Birds 01 - 10
© Rabindranath Tagore
STRAY birds of summer come to my window
to sing and fly away.
My Land
© Thomas Osborne Davis
She is a rich and rare land;
Oh! she's a fresh and fair land;
She is a dear and rare land--
This native land of mine.
Golden Age
© Arthur Rimbaud
One of the voices
Always angelic -
It is about me, -
Sharply expresses itself :
