Poems about Life

• girls coming home in their cars

  the girls are coming home in their cars
  and I sit by the window and

  by Charles Bukowski 39 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Del tirano (Verso XXXVIII)

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

  by Jose Marti 15 lines
• Águila Blanca

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

  by Jose Marti 29 lines
• Bosque de rosas

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

  by Jose Marti 45 lines
• The Firewood Poem

  Beechwood fires are bright and clear
  If the logs are kept a year,

  by Lady Celia Congreve 25 lines
• God Made This Day For Me

  Jes' the sort o' weather and jes' the sort of sky
  Which seem to suit my fancy, with the white clouds driftin' by

  by Edgar Albert Guest 19 lines
• No me quites las canas

  No me quites las canas
  Que son mi nobleza:

  by Jose Marti 8 lines
• Ghazal

  by Meer Taqi Meer 1 lines
• Homagno

  Homagno sin ventura
  La hirsuta y retostada cabellera

  by Jose Marti 49 lines
• The Dreamers

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

  by Theodosia Garrison 19 lines
• Black baby

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

  by Anita Scott Coleman 24 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
• Acádemica

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

  by Jose Marti 28 lines
• A Story

    At sixteen they laughed
    yonder, in the springtime afternoon.

  by Kostas Karyotakis 17 lines
• Miss Otis regrets

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

  by Cole Porter 25 lines, 2 comments
• Taliesin

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

  by R S Thomas 23 lines
• Sarn Rhiw

      So we know
      she must have said something

  by R S Thomas 28 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
• Their Sex Life

  by A.R. Ammons 1 lines, 2 comments
• Flores del cielo

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

  by Jose Marti 32 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
• Almswomen

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

  by Edmund Blunden 44 lines
• Walking Around (Original Spanish)

  (Original Spanish; can someone provide the title?)
  Sucede que me canso de ser hombre.

  by Pablo Neruda 112 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
• The Old Librarian

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

  by Anna Hamilton Wood 21 lines, 4 comments
• The Three Kings [1]

  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

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