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The term "sanctify monkey" has been searched for 20 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on February 20th, 2005.
1. The Ape And I - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger.
Read 721 times on Poetry Connection.
Said a monkey unto me:
"How I'm glad I am not you!
See, I swing from tree to tree,
Something that you cannot do.
In gay greenery I drown;
Swift to skyey hights I scale:
As you watch me hang head down
Don't you wish you had a tail?
"Don't you wish... (Read full poem)
2. The Altar - written by George Herbert
Read 1413 times on Poetry Connection.
A broken ALTAR, Lord, thy servant rears,
Made of a heart and cemented with tears;
Whose parts are as thy hand did frame;
No workman's tool hath touch'd the same.
A HEART alone
Is such a stone,
As nothing but
Thy pow'r doth cut.
Wherefore... (Read full poem)
4. Looking For A Monk And Not Finding Him - written by Li Po
Read 769 times on Poetry Connection.
I took a small path leading
up a hill valley, finding there
a temple, its gate covered
with moss, and in front of
the door but tracks of birds;
in the room of the old monk
no one was living, and I
staring through the window
saw but a hair... (Read full poem)
5. The Ape And God - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 701 times on Poetry Connection.
Son put a poser up to me
That made me scratch my head:
"God made the whole wide world," quoth he;
"That's right, my boy," I said.
Said son: "He mad the mountains soar,
And all the plains lie flat;
But Dad, what did he do before... (Read full poem)
6. Seaward - written by Joseph Brodsky
Published in 1983.
Read 635 times on Poetry Connection.
Darling, you think it's love, it's just a midnight journey.
Best are the dales and rivers removed by force,
as from the next compartment throttles "Oh, stop it, Bernie,"
yet the rhythm of those paroxysms is exactly yours.
Hook to the meat!... (Read full poem)
7. Veni, Creator Spiritus - written by John Dryden
From Examen Poeticum.
Read 660 times on Poetry Connection.
Creator Spirit, by whose aid
The world's foundations first were laid,
Come, visit ev'ry pious mind;
Come, pour thy joys on human kind;
From sin, and sorrow set us free;
And make thy temples worthy Thee.
O, Source of uncreated Light,
The Father's... (Read full poem)
8. Filling Station - written by Elizabeth Bishop
Read 7975 times on Poetry Connection.
Oh, but it is dirty!
--this little filling station,
oil-soaked, oil-permeated
to a disturbing, over-all
black translucency.
Be careful with that match!
Father wears a dirty,
oil-soaked monkey suit
that cuts him under the arms,
and several quick... (Read full poem)
9. Hiawathas' photographing ( Part II ) - written by Lewis Carroll
Read 451 times on Poetry Connection.
First the Governor, the Father:
He suggested velvet curtains
looped about a massy pillar;
And the corner of a table,
Of a rosewood dining-table.
He would hold a scroll of something,
Hold it firmly in his left-hand;
He would keep his... (Read full poem)
10. The Matrimonial Stakes - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 433 times on Poetry Connection.
I wooed her with a steeplechase, I won her with a fall,
I made her heartstrings quiver on the flat
When the pony missed his take-off, and we crached into the wall;
Well, she simply had to have me after that!
It awoke a thrill of int'rest... (Read full poem)
11. First We Take Manhattan - written by Leonard Cohen
Read 1981 times on Poetry Connection.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark... (Read full poem)
12. A Statesman's Holiday - written by William Butler Yeats
From On The Boiler.
Published in 1939.
Read 1188 times on Poetry Connection.
I lived among great houses,
Riches drove out rank,
Base drove out the better blood,
And mind and body shrank.
No Oscar ruled the table,
But I'd a troop of friends
That knowing better talk had gone
Talked of odds and ends.
Some knew what ailed the... (Read full poem)
13. That Half-Crown Sweep - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 413 times on Poetry Connection.
The run of Billabong-go-dry
Is just beyond Lime Burner's Gap;
Its waterhole and tank supply
Is excellent -- upon the map.
But lacking nature's liquid drench,
The station staff are wont to try
With "Bob-in Sweeps" their thirst to... (Read full poem)
14. The Bough of Nonsense - written by Robert Graves
Read 582 times on Poetry Connection.
AN IDYLL
Back from the Somme two Fusiliers
Limped painfully home; the elder said,
S. “Robert, I’ve lived three thousand years
This Summer, and I’m nine parts dead.”
R. “But if that’s truly so,” I cried, “quick, now,
Through these great... (Read full poem)
15. When Dacey rode the Mule - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 576 times on Poetry Connection.
’TWAS to a small, up-country town,
When we were boys at school,
There came a circus with a clown,
Likewise a bucking mule.
The clown announced a scheme they had
Spectators for to bring—
They’d give a crown to any lad
Who’d ride him... (Read full poem)
16. My Prisoner - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man.
Read 474 times on Poetry Connection.
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me;
Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we;
Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was,
Fightin' fierce as fire because
It was 'im or me as must be downed;
'E was twice as big as me;
I was 'arf the weight of 'e;
We was like a... (Read full poem)
17. Infidelity - written by Robert William Service
From Bar-Room Ballads.
Read 2285 times on Poetry Connection.
Three Triangles
TRIANGLE ONE
My husband put some poison in my beer,
And fondly hoped that I would drink it up.
He would get rid of me - no bloody fear,
For when his back was turned I changed the cup.
He took it all, and if he did not die,
Its just... (Read full poem)
18. The Jumblies - written by Edward Lear
Read 1591 times on Poetry Connection.
I
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one... (Read full poem)
19. Flies - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 511 times on Poetry Connection.
I never kill a fly because
I think that what we have of laws
To regulate and civilize
Our daily life - we owe to flies.
Apropos, I'll tell you of Choo, the spouse
Of the head of the hunters, Wung;
Such a beautiful cave they had for a house,
And a... (Read full poem)
20. The Saddhu Of Couva - written by Derek Walcott
Read 954 times on Poetry Connection.
When sunset, a brass gong,
vibrate through Couva,
is then I see my soul, swiftly unsheathed,
like a white cattle bird growing more small
over the ocean of the evening canes,
and I sit quiet, waiting for it to return
like a hog-cattle blistered with... (Read full poem)
21. The Deserted Garden - written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Read 867 times on Poetry Connection.
I mind me in the days departed,
How often underneath the sun
With childish bounds I used to run
To a garden long deserted.
The beds and walks were vanished quite;
And wheresoe'er had struck the spade,
The greenest grasses Nature laid
To... (Read full poem)
22. Television - written by Roald Dahl
Read 4344 times on Poetry Connection.
The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've... (Read full poem)
23. "Mike Teavee..." - written by Roald Dahl
Read 2825 times on Poetry Connection.
The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set --
Or better still, just don't install
The idiotic thing at all.
In almost every house we've been,
We've... (Read full poem)
25. The Black Dudeen - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man.
Read 468 times on Poetry Connection.
Humping it here in the dug-out,
Sucking me black dudeen,
I'd like to say in a general way,
There's nothing like Nickyteen;
There's nothing like Nickyteen, me boys,
Be it pipes or snipes or cigars;
So be sure that a bloke
Has plenty to... (Read full poem)
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