Poems about Life

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Drunken Coachman

Unwashed
Drinks:

by Arthur Rimbaud 39 lines
Country Fair

If you didn't see the six-legged dog,
It doesn't matter.

by Charles Simic 19 lines
Busted Cowboy's Christmas

I am a busted cowboy
And I work upon the range,

by D J O Malley 43 lines
Friendship

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

by Anonymous Americas 23 lines
Autobiography

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

by William Soutar 9 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
The Burning of Chicago

Out of the west a voice—a shudder of horror and pity;
Quivers along the pulses of all the winds that blow;—

by Kate Seymour Maclean 55 lines
Morning-Land

OLD English songs, you bring to me
A simple sweetness somewhat kin

by Siegfried Sassoon 8 lines
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
Earth’s Motion

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

by Edith L M King 18 lines, 1 comment
The Firewood Poem

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

by Celia Congreve 25 lines
Preface

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

by Wilfred Owen 17 lines
Gnomic Stanzas

Mountain snow, everywhere white;
A raven's custom is to sing;

by Anonymous British 66 lines
Poems on Life

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

by Rabindranath Tagore 29 lines
The Cupboard

Mother: What's in that cupboard, Mary?
Mary: Which cupboard, mother dear?

by Robert Graves 28 lines
Romance And Reality

A boy there was and he went to sea
With a head as full as a head could be

by Cicely Fox Smith 46 lines, 1 comment
Shearer’s Song

The season is over;
The shearing is done;

by Henry Lawson 11 lines
'The Voice from Over Yonder'

“Did she care as much as I did
When our paths of Fate divided?

by Henry Lawson 26 lines
The Pavement Stones :A Song of the Unemployed

WHEN first I came to town, resolved
To fight my way alone,

by Henry Lawson 43 lines
Old Posh

Cheerful crab was that old Posh,
---Warn't afflicted much with dosh,

by Holman Francis Day 82 lines, 1 comment
The New University of Queensland-St Lucia

This is the loveliest vision in our land.
It stands beside the silent silver stream

by Robert Steel Byrnes 15 lines
Verses

Unthinking, idle, wild and young,
I laugh'd, and talk'd, and danced, and sung:

by HRH Princess Amelia 12 lines, 2 comments
Because My Father's One

It was the King of Virland –
0 he was angry then –

by Henry Lawson 61 lines
There Is No Indispensable Man

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego's in bloom

by Anonymous British 23 lines, 1 comment
A Grain of Desert Sand

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

by 18 lines
7 Days on the Sea

Monday
The world is a ball of water.

by May Swenson 225 lines
Estrada

Esta estrada onde moro, entre duas voltas do caminho,
Interessa mais que uma avenida urbana.

by Manuel Bandeira 14 lines
Barney Devine

Where are you roving now, Barney Devine,
Shearing or droving now, what is your line?

by 26 lines
Courage

Dangers do but dare me,
Terrors cannot scare me,

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 26 lines
Fortitude

Mine own stout heart!
You and I must never part,

by Martin Farquhar Tupper 21 lines

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