Poems about Philosophy

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The Power Of Words

'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words!
Life is in them, and death. A word can send

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 7 lines, 5 comments
Paracelsus: Part II: Paracelsus Attains

Scene.-- \Constantinople; the house of a Greek Conjurer\. 1521.
Paracelsus.

by Robert Browning 701 lines
The House Of Fortune III

My wearied heart bade me farewell and left for the House of Fortune. As he reached that holy city which the soul had blessed and worshipped, he commenced wonder

by Khalil Gibran 6 lines
Not Stopping To Mark The Trail

Not stopping to mark the trail,
let me push even deeper

by Saigyo 5 lines, 4 comments
Hoodoo

"Don't you sign in that 'ooker,
Reid's Gulistan;

by Cicely Fox Smith 39 lines
On Self - Abasement And Humility

Lowliness befits thee, violence suits thee not; a, naked man frantic in a bee-house is out of place. Leave aside thy strength, betake thyself to lowliness, that

by Hakim Sanai 8 lines, 1 comment
Light Breeze

As regards feeling pain, like a hand cut in battle,
consider the body a robe you wear.

by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 8 lines
The Church Clock

Oh, thou who dost these pointers see,
And hears't the chiming hour,

by Edwin Waugh 34 lines, 1 comment
Habitations

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

by Hilaire Belloc 2 lines, 1 comment
Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 04

A band of Arab brigands having taken up their position on the top of
a mountain and closed the passage of caravans, the inhabitants of

by Sa di 91 lines
Paracelsus: Part III: Paracelsus

Scene.-- \Basil; a chamber in the house of Paracelsus\. 1526.
Paracelsus, Festus.

by Robert Browning 1206 lines
The Beach Comber

I'd like to return to the world again,
To the dutiful, work-a-day world of men, —

by Harry Kemp 17 lines
On Being Silent

The path of religion is neither in works nor words; there are no buildings thereon, but only desolation. Whoso becomes silent to pursue the path, his speech is

by Hakim Sanai 8 lines, 1 comment
Pictures

"Some likes pictures o' women," said Bill, "an' some like 'orses best,"
As he fitted a pair of fancy shackles on to his old sea ches

by Cicely Fox Smith 27 lines, 1 comment
Too Lazy To Be Ambitious

Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.

by Taigu Ryokan 6 lines, 1 comment
Memories

"Ships . . . they go," said Murphy, "like a spent pay-roll . . .
They're sunk in the deep water or they're wrecked in the shoal;

by Cicely Fox Smith 13 lines
Enchanted Mirrors

These are enchanted mirrors that I bring,
By demons wrought from metals of the moon

by Clark Ashton Smith 14 lines
Untimely Leave

No more noisy, loud words from me---such is my master's will.
Henceforth I deal in whispers.

by Rabindranath Tagore 10 lines
jawalking blues (for t.l.k. / j.r.s. and grady)

the years disapated
& i havent anything

by D A Levy 93 lines, 1 comment
Song of the Future

'Tis strange that in a land so strong
So strong and bold in mighty youth,

by A B Banjo Paterson 177 lines
The Packet Rat

When I leave this Western ocean, to the South'ard I will steer
In a tall Colonial clipper, far an' far enough from here,

by Cicely Fox Smith 73 lines
Alone By The Hearth

Here, in my snug little fire-lit chamber,
Sit I alone:

by George Arnold 44 lines, 2 comments
Yesterday And Today XII

The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as a vulture hovers over a carcass, until he reac

by Khalil Gibran 14 lines
The Poem of Zuhair

"Does the blackened ruin, situated in the stony ground between Durraj and Mutathallam, which did not speak to me, when addressed, belong to the abode of Ummi Aw

by Zuhair 57 lines, 1 comment
Retrospect

"Ain't it rum?" said Dan one day,
Yarning while he worked away

by Cicely Fox Smith 62 lines, 2 comments
A Little Poem

A happy vicar I might have been
Two hundred years ago

by George Orwell 36 lines, 3 comments
Symbols

PALM Sunday at the Vatican
They celebrate with palms;

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 16 lines
Australia to England

What of the years of Englishmen?
What have they brought of growth and grace

by John Farrell 144 lines
Words Of Wisdom

"Come all you young seamen, take heed now to me,
A hard case old sailorman bred to the sea,

by Cicely Fox Smith 52 lines
A Farmhouse on the Wei River

In the slant of the sun on the country-side,
Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane;

by Wang Wei 10 lines, 8 comments

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