Poems about Life

• In Praise Of Solid People

  Thank God that there are solid folk
  Who water flowers and roll the lawn,

  by C S Lewis 68 lines, 6 comments
• We Are Some Disjointed Guitars...

  We are some disjointed guitars.
  When the wind blows through

  by Kostas Karyotakis 20 lines
• A Sigh

  O Life! -- what a dream,
    What a tale that is told!

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 35 lines
• Copa Ciclópea

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

  by Jose Marti 23 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
• Pomona

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

  by Jose Marti 26 lines
• "Day Mares"

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

  by Wilhelmina Stitch 22 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
• 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
• Sed de belleza

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

  by Jose Marti 32 lines
• Say Goodbye when your Chum is Married

  Now this is a rhyme that might well be carried
      Gummed in your hat till the end of things:

  by Henry Lawson 15 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
• A Piper

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

  by Seumas O'Sullivan 10 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
• Hope

  Hope is the Sailor
    On every sea,—

  by Martin Farquhar Tupper 39 lines
• Mantilla Andaluza

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

  by Jose Marti 18 lines
• Courtesy

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

  by Hilaire Belloc 32 lines
• Shearer’s Song

  The season is over;
  The shearing is done;

  by Henry Lawson 11 lines
• 7 Days on the Sea

  Monday
      The world is a ball of water.

  by May Swenson 225 lines
• A Grain of Desert Sand

  Beneath the blue Egyptian skies,
  With ramp and roller, guide and stay,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 18 lines
• Early Bacon

  EARLY bacon, early bacon!
      Oh, the pleasant sight to see,

  by Archibald Stodart Walker 13 lines, 4 comments
• 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
• Autobiography

  Out of the darkness of the womb
  Into a bed, into a room:

  by William Soutar 9 lines
• Friendship

  Friendship needs no studied phrases,
  Polished face, or winning wiles;

  by Anonymous Americas 23 lines
• Preface

        This book is not about heroes. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak
            of the

  by Wilfred Owen 17 lines
• Drunken Coachman

  Unwashed
  Drinks:

  by Arthur Rimbaud 39 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
• Earth’s Motion

  When we are going in a train
  At sixty miles an hour,

  by Edith L M King 18 lines, 2 comments
• Night Rhapsody

      How beautiful it is to wake at night,
      When over all there reigns the ultimate spell

  by Robert Nichols 86 lines
• Autumn

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 19 lines

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