Poems about Life

• 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
• Enemy

  It would be nice
  In any case,

  by Langston Hughes 14 lines
• Life

  Let me but live my life from year to year,
      With forward face and unreluctant soul;

  by Henry Van Dyke 14 lines, 2 comments
• Turning Fifty

  Having known war and peace
  and loss and finding,

  by Judith Wright 33 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Dauber

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

  by John Masefield 2092 lines
• Odio la máscara y vicio (Verso III)

  Odio la máscara y vicio
  Del corredor de mi hotel:

  by Jose Marti 59 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
• A Boy And His Dad

  A boy and his dad on a fishing trip-
    There is a glorious fellowship!

  by Edgar Albert Guest 34 lines, 3 comments
• Yo sé de Egipto y Nigricia (Verso II)

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

  by Jose Marti 20 lines
• Silence

  I catch the pattern
  Of your silence

  by Langston Hughes 14 lines
• Roosevelt

  Workingmen believed
  He busted trusts,

  by Ernest Hemingway 12 lines
• When Nature Wants a Man

  When Nature wants to drill a man
  And thrill a man,

  by Angela Morgan 100 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
• Aik Ladka

  Aik chota sa ladka tha main jin dinoo.n
  Aik mailey main pohancha humakta howa

  by Ibn-e-Insha 12 lines
• Christmas Day In the Workhouse

  It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,
  And the cold bare walls are bright

  by George Robert Sims 179 lines, 2 comments
• Letter From a Father

  Ulcerated tooth keeps me awake, there is
  such pain, would have to go to the hospital to have

  by Mona Van Duyn 128 lines, 4 comments
• A mi alma

  Llegada la hora del trabajo
  

  by Jose Marti 19 lines
• Dentro de mí

  Dentro de mí hay un león enfrenado:
  De mi corazón he labrado sus riendas:

  by Jose Marti 15 lines
• To A Friend Estranged From Me

  Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun
  That will not rise again.

  by Edna St. Vincent Millay 24 lines
• The Man in the Glass

  When you get what you want in your struggle for self
  and the world makes you king for a day

  by Anonymous Americas 23 lines
• The Need

  We were sittin' there,
      and smokin' of our pipes, discussin' things

  by Edgar Albert Guest 48 lines, 1 comment
• Pollice Verso

  (Memoria de presidio)
  Sí! yo también, desnuda la cabeza

  by Jose Marti 99 lines
• Poems On Life

  Life is given to us,
  we earn it by giving it.

  by Rabindranath Tagore 29 lines
• Mis versos van revueltos y encendidos

  Mis versos van revueltos y encendidos
  Como mi corazón: bien es que corra

  by Jose Marti 26 lines
• Fuera del mundo

  Fuera del mundo que batalla y luce
  Sin recordar a su infeliz cautivo,

  by Jose Marti 10 lines
• The James Bond Movie

  The popcorn is greasy, and I forgot to bring a Kleenex.
  A pill that’s a bomb inside the stomach of a man inside

  by May Swenson 31 lines, 2 comments
• Invictus: The Unconquerable

  Out of the night that covers me,
        Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

  by William Ernest Henley 18 lines, 1 comment
• Chains Of Fires

  Each dawn, kneeling before my hearth,
  Placing stick, crossing stick

  by Elsa Gidlow 38 lines
• Spectator ab Extra

  As I sat in the Café I said to myself,
  They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,

  by Arthur Hugh Clough 123 lines, 2 comments

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