Poems about Philosophy

• The Laws of the Navy

  Now these are Laws of the Navy,
  Unwritten and varied they be;

  by Ronald A Hopwood 136 lines
• Success

  He has achieved success
  who has lived well,

  by Bessie Anderson Stanley 17 lines, 2 comments
• Who Says Words With My Mouth?

  All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
  Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 22 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Moving Water

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

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 16 lines
• Moments Indulgence

  I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side. The works
  that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.

  by Rabindranath Tagore 8 lines, 2 comments
• 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
• Two Friends

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

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 20 lines
• You who live

  
  You who live now in this world

  by Eustache Deschamps 15 lines
• I See so Deeply Within Myself

  see so deeply within myself.
  Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines
• The Beauty Of Death XIV

  *Part One - The Calling*
  

  by Khalil Gibran 81 lines, 7 comments
• The Life Of Love XVI

  Come, my beloved; let us walk amidst the knolls,
  For the snow is water, and Life is alive

  by Khalil Gibran 89 lines
• Apology

  Why do I write today?
  The beauty of

  by William Carlos Williams 22 lines
• The Breeze at Dawn

  The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
  Don't go back to sleep.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 8 lines
• Song Of The Rain VII

  I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven
  By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn

  by Khalil Gibran 37 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
• My Journey (With English Translation)

  I'm a play that's many centuries old.
  I expire and become immortal.

  by Ali Sardar Jafri 121 lines
• The Copernican System

  The Sun revolving on his axis turns,
  And with creative fire intensely burns;

  by Thomas Chatterton 38 lines, 1 comment
• Naya Shivala (with English Translation)

  power and peace are implied in the songs of the disciples.
  The salvation of the people of the world lies in love!

  by Muhammed Iqbal 40 lines, 1 comment
• The Hill

  This normative hill
  like all others

  by Nissim Ezekiel 57 lines
• Sou’ Spain

  Are you coming, Johnnie Bowline,
  Have you had your fill of fun?

  by Cicely Fox Smith 47 lines
• A Green Stream

  I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers,
  Borne by the channel of a green stream,

  by Wang Wei 11 lines, 18 comments
• Experience

  The world was made when a man was born,
  He must taste for himself the forbidden springs;

  by John Boyle O'Reilly 17 lines, 4 comments
• Poem 3

  WITHIN this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, and within it is the Creator:
  Within this vessel are the seven oceans and the unnumbered stars.

  by Kabir 5 lines
• Giving Chapter V

  Then said a rich man, "Speak to us of Giving."
  And he answered:

  by Khalil Gibran 33 lines, 2 comments
• Désirs (With English Translation)

  Le rêve pour les uns serait d'avoir des ailes,
  De monter dans l'espace en poussant de grands cris,

  by Guy de Maupassant 84 lines, 2 comments
• In The Forest

  But soon we must rise, O my heart, we must wander again
  Into the war of the world and the strife of the throng;

  by Sarojini Naidu 0 lines, 5 comments
• Pain XVI

  And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."
  And he said:

  by Khalil Gibran 0 lines
• Imitation

  A dark unfathomed tide
  Of interminable pride -

  by Edgar Allan Poe 21 lines, 5 comments
• Life

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

  by Sarojini Naidu 0 lines, 1 comment

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