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My Papa's Waltz

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;

by Theodore Roethke 18 lines, 29 comments
The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both

by Robert Frost 19 lines, 81 comments
A Sincere Man Am I (Verse I)

A sincere man am I
From the land where palm trees grow,

by Jose Marti 183 lines, 4 comments
This Be The Verse

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.

by Philip Larkin 13 lines, 6 comments
Song of Myself

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,

by Walt Whitman 1731 lines, 11 comments
Dover Beach

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair

by Matthew Arnold 39 lines, 16 comments
Verse

Friends
The old word is dead.

by Nizar Qabbani 175 lines, 5 comments
Meg Merrilies

Old Meg she was a gipsy;
And liv'd upon the moors:

by John Keats 42 lines, 1 comment
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Fine living . . . a la carte?
Come to the Waldorf-Astoria!

by Langston Hughes 45 lines, 4 comments
Transfigured Night (Verklärte Nacht)

Two people walk through a bare, cold grove;
The moon races along with them, they look into it.

by Richard Dehmel 131 lines
Starry Night

A creative heart, obsessed with satisfying
this dormant and uncaring society

by Tupac Shakur 14 lines
The Young Housewife

At ten a.m. the young housewife
moves about in negligee behind

by William Carlos Williams 13 lines, 2 comments
U R Ripping Us Apart

before u came the triangle never broke.
we were bonded and melded as one,

by Tupac Shakur 15 lines
Miss Thompson Goes Shopping

Miss Thompson at Home
In her lone cottage on the downs,

by Martin Armstrong 284 lines, 2 comments
Collection of Six Haiku

Waking in the night;
the lamp is low,

by Matsuo Basho 24 lines, 4 comments
Desiderata - Words for Life

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

by Max Ehrmann 52 lines, 5 comments
Advice To A Son

Never trust a white man,
Never kill a Jew,

by Ernest Hemingway 19 lines, 1 comment
A Wish

I'd like to be a boy again, a care-free prince of
joy again,

by Edgar Albert Guest 49 lines, 3 comments
Success And Failure

I do not think all failure's undeserved,
And all success is merely someone's luck;

by Edgar Albert Guest 13 lines
Amor de ciudad grande

De gorja son y rapidez los tiempos:
Corre cual luz la voz; en alta aguja

by Jose Marti 68 lines
Dauber

Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck,
All work aboard was over for the hour,

by John Masefield 2092 lines
How Do You Tackle Your Work?

How do you tackle your work each day?
Are you scared of the job you find?

by Edgar Albert Guest 34 lines
It's September

It's September, and the orchards are afire with red and gold,
And the nights with dew are heavy, and the morning's sharp with cold;

by Edgar Albert Guest 26 lines
The Prisoner: Pt 1

In the dungeon crypts idly did I stray,
Reckless of the lives wasting there away;

by Emily Jane Bronte 77 lines
Enemy

It would be nice
In any case,

by Langston Hughes 14 lines
Spring & Fall: [Margaret, Are You Grieving]

Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?

by Gerard Manley Hopkins 14 lines, 2 comments
The Merry Beggars

Come, come away! the spring,
By every bird that can but sing,

by Richard Brome 23 lines, 1 comment
Tiene el leopardo un abrigo (Verso XLIV)

Tiene el leopardo un abrigo
En su monte seco y pardo:

by Jose Marti 20 lines
Yo sé de Egipto y Nigricia (Verso II)

Yo sé de Egipto y Nigricia,
Y de Persia y Xenophonte;

by Jose Marti 20 lines
A mi alma

Llegada la hora del trabajo

by Jose Marti 19 lines

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