Poems about Life

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Odio la máscara y vicio (Verso III)

Odio la máscara y vicio
Del corredor de mi hotel:

by Jose Marti 59 lines
Old Folks Laugh

They have spent their
content of simpering,

by Dr. Maya Angelou 24 lines
Chains Of Fires

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

by Elsa Gidlow 38 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
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
Dentro de mí

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

by Jose Marti 15 lines
Bosque de rosas

Allí despacio te diré mis cuitas;
Allí en tu boca escribiré mis versos!—

by Jose Marti 45 lines
Miss Otis regrets

Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today,
Madam,

by Cole Porter 25 lines, 2 comments
Del tirano (Verso XXXVIII)

¿Del tirano? Del tirano
Di todo, ¡di más!; y clava

by Jose Marti 15 lines
Roosevelt

Workingmen believed
He busted trusts,

by Ernest Hemingway 12 lines
Águila Blanca

De pie, cada mañana,
Junto a mi áspero lecho está el verdugo.—

by Jose Marti 29 lines
Acádemica

Ven, mi caballo, a que te encinche: quieren
Que no con garbo natural el coso

by Jose Marti 28 lines
Fuera del mundo

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

by Jose Marti 10 lines
The Dreamers

The Gypsies passed her little gate—
She stopped her wheel to see—

by Theodosia Garrison 19 lines
Yugo y Estrella

Cuando nací, sin sol, mi madre dijo:
—Flor de mi seno, Homagno generoso

by Jose Marti 37 lines
Pinta mi amigo el pintor (Verso XL)

Pinta mi amigo el pintor
Sus angelones dorados,

by Jose Marti 10 lines
Turning Fifty

Having known war and peace
and loss and finding,

by Judith Wright 33 lines, 1 comment
Flores del cielo

Leí estos versos de Ronsard:
«Je vous envoie un bouquet que ma main

by Jose Marti 32 lines
Peter Quince at the Clavier

Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the self-same sounds

by Wallace Stevens 87 lines, 1 comment
Eyes Fastened With Pins

How much death works,
No one knows what a long

by Charles Simic 29 lines
Pollice Verso

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

by Jose Marti 99 lines
Silence

I catch the pattern
Of your silence

by Langston Hughes 14 lines
Biography

When I am buried, all my thoughts and acts
Will be reduced to lists of dates and facts,

by John Masefield 286 lines
No me quites las canas

No me quites las canas
Que son mi nobleza:

by Jose Marti 8 lines
Grace Jennings Carmicheal

I hate the pen, the foolscap fair,
The poet’s corner, and the page,

by Henry Lawson 33 lines, 1 comment
A Story

At sixteen they laughed
yonder, in the springtime afternoon.

by Kostas Karyotakis 17 lines
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
Almswomen

At Quincey's moat the squandering village ends,
And there in the almshouse dwell the dearest friends

by Edmund Blunden 44 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
The Old Librarian

I watched him one day fingering a shelf
Caressingly, forgetful of himself

by Anna Hamilton Wood 21 lines, 4 comments

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