Poems about Life

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Copa Ciclópea

El sol alumbra: ya en los aires miro
La copa amarga: ya mis labios tiemblan,

by Jose Marti 23 lines
Black baby

The baby I hold in my arms is a black baby.

by Anita Scott Coleman 24 lines
Sed de belleza

Solo, estoy solo: viene el verso amigo,
Como el esposo diligente acude

by Jose Marti 32 lines
The Poor Man's Pig

Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green
And apple-boughs as knarred as old toads' backs

by Edmund Blunden 14 lines
Media Noche

Oh, qué vergüenza!: —El sol ha iluminado
La tierra: el amplio mar en sus entrañas

by Jose Marti 48 lines
Poeta

Como nacen las palmas en la arena,
Y la rosa en la orilla al mar salobre,

by Jose Marti 35 lines
Taliesin

I have been all men known to history,
Wondering at the world and at time passing;

by R S Thomas 23 lines
We Are Some Disjointed Guitars...

We are some disjointed guitars.
When the wind blows through

by Kostas Karyotakis 20 lines
Homagno

Homagno sin ventura
La hirsuta y retostada cabellera

by Jose Marti 49 lines
A Piper

A Piper in the streets to-day
Set up, and tuned, and started to play,

by Seumas O Sullivan 10 lines
Sarn Rhiw

So we know
she must have said something

by R S Thomas 28 lines
Pomona

Oh, ritmo de la carne, oh melodía,
Oh licor vigorante, oh filtro dulce

by Jose Marti 26 lines
Yo sacaré lo que en el pecho tengo

Yo sacaré lo que en el pecho tengo
De cólera y de horror. De cada vivo

by Jose Marti 97 lines
He vivido: me he muerto...

He vivido: me he muerto: y en mi andante
Fosa sigo viviendo: una armadura

by Jose Marti 37 lines
To a Young Poet

For the first twenty years you are still growing
Bodily that is: as a poet, of course,

by R S Thomas 25 lines
Their Sex Life

by A.R. Ammons 1 lines
In the Garden the Chrysanthemums Were Dying...

In the garden the chrysanthemums were dying
like desires when you came. Calmly

by Kostas Karyotakis 7 lines
Song in a Year of Catastrophe

And I went and put my hands
into the ground, and they took root

by R S Thomas 13 lines
Autumn

Stern Time hath banished with a frown
The summer, now grown wan and old;

by Cicely Fox Smith 19 lines
"Day Mares"

Far worse than nightmares are the
fears that crowd upon us in the day.

by Wilhelmina Stitch 22 lines
Mantilla Andaluza

Por qué no acaba todo, ora que puedes
Amortajar mi cuerpo venturoso

by Jose Marti 18 lines
Read Your Fate

A world's disappearing.
Little street,

by Charles Simic 24 lines
March Mournful and Vertical

I stare at the ceiling's plasterwork.
I'm drawn into the dance of the meanders.

by Kostas Karyotakis 48 lines
On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature

Where, where but here have pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,

by William Butler Yeats 3 lines
A Seaside Church

A gray-roof'd church on a hill, set in the sound of the waves,
Hearing them all day long on the shingle murmuring,

by Cicely Fox Smith 29 lines
This Morning

Enter without knocking, hard-working ant.
I'm just sitting here mulling over

by Charles Simic 23 lines
The Three Kings

The East is dead and the West is done, and again our course lies thus
South-east by Fate and the Rising Sun where the Three Ki

by Henry Lawson 27 lines
Laugh and be Merry

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.

by John Masefield 19 lines
Drunken Coachman

Unwashed
Drinks:

by Arthur Rimbaud 39 lines
Courtesy

Of Courtesy, it is much less
Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,

by Hilaire Belloc 32 lines

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