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Poems about Philosophy

• The Puzzle of the Cooper and the Vintner

  Now, my worthy friend, find out if you can,
  The vessel's dimensions, and comfort the man!

  by Benjamin Banneker 25 lines, 1 comment
• Ahead of the Stars

  Ahead of the stars there lie more worlds
  there still remain more tests of love

  by Muhammed Iqbal 15 lines, 9 comments
• The Gecko

  The Gecko lying on his stone
  Is always very much alone,

  by Leon Gellert 24 lines, 6 comments
• I Continue To Dream

  I take my dreams and make of them a bronze vase
  and a round fountain with a beautiful statue in its center.

  by Langston Hughes 8 lines, 1 comment
• Two Kinds of Intelligence

  There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
  as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 20 lines, 2 comments
• Lyrebirds

  Over the west side of the mountain,
  that’s lyrebird country.

  by Judith Wright 24 lines
• This we Have Now

  This we have now
  is not imagination.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 9 lines, 2 comments
• The Canterbury Tales; PROLOGUE

      Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
      The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

  by Geoffrey Chaucer 948 lines, 6 comments
• The Resignation

  O God, whose thunder shakes the sky,
  Whose eye this atom globe surveys,

  by Thomas Chatterton 32 lines, 1 comment
• The Road Goes Ever On

  The Road goes ever on and on
  Down from the door where it began.

  by J R R Tolkien 8 lines, 1 comment
• Work

  Let me but do my work from day to day,
      In field or forest, at the desk or loom,

  by Henry Van Dyke 14 lines, 2 comments
• The Loom of Years

  In the light of the silent stars that shine on the struggling sea,
  In the weary cry of the wind and the whisper of flower and tree,

  by Alfred Noyes 34 lines, 1 comment
• A man said to the universe:

  A man said to the universe:
  "Sir I exist!"

  by Stephen Maria Crane 5 lines, 3 comments
• Beauty XXV

  Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?

  by Khalil Gibran 28 lines, 7 comments
• A Caged Bird

  High at the window in her cage,
      The old canary sits and sings,

  by Sarah Orne Jewett 44 lines, 3 comments
• Poem 2

  WHEN He Himself reveals Himself, Brahma brings into manifestation That which can never be seen.
  As the seed is in the plant, as the shade is in the tree, as th

  by Kabir 16 lines
• Bill's Enemy

  "There's a bloke I sometimes want to kick the worst way in the world,"
  Said Bill, while from his short black pipe the dog-watch smok

  by Cicely Fox Smith 0 lines, 2 comments
• I heard thee laugh

  I HEARD thee laugh,
  And in this merriment

  by Stephen Maria Crane 10 lines, 1 comment
• Dream Fable

  I saw myself in a wide green garden, more beautiful than I could begin to understand. In this garden was a young girl. I said to her, "How wonderful this place

  by Rabia al Basri 15 lines, 1 comment
• Apology

  Why do I write today?
  The beauty of

  by William Carlos Williams 22 lines
• Poem 4

  O HOW may I ever express that secret word?
  O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that?

  by Kabir 8 lines, 1 comment
• Shui Tiao Ko Tou

  Will a moon so bright ever arise again?
  Drink a cupful of wine and ask of the sky.

  by Su Tung-po 21 lines, 2 comments
• Love Chapter II

  Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."
  And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them.

  by Khalil Gibran 37 lines, 4 comments
• You who live

  
  You who live now in this world

  by Eustache Deschamps 15 lines
• Earthly

  If I'd been destined at birth
  To lie in the lap of the gods,

  by Arseny Tarkovsky 12 lines
• Only Breath

  Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
  Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 14 lines
• Life

  And thirst with passionate longing for the things
  That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings

  by Sarojini Naidu 0 lines, 1 comment
• Moving Water

  When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
  moving in you, a joy.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 16 lines
• Two Friends

  A certain person came to the Friend's door
  and knocked.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 20 lines
• Contra el verso retórico y ornado (Against Rhetorical And Ornate Verse)

  Against rhetorical and ornate verse,
  There is the verse natural. Here a storm:

  by Jose Marti 74 lines

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