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Poems about Philosophy

• There Are A Hundred Kinds Of Prayer (Quatrain in Farsi with English Translation)

  Today, like every day, we are ruined, ruined (by "wine").
  Don't open the door of worry, but take up the lute!

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 8 lines
• To Youth

  I give thee back thy false, ephemeral vow;
  But, O beloved comrade, ere we part

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• A Dog's Life

  "Oh, a sailor's life's a dog's life, an' that's the truth," says Bill,
  "A sailor's life's a dog's life, look at it 'ow you will;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 28 lines
• Affection

  The earth that made the rose,
  She also is thy mother, and not I.

  by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 12 lines
• Come, Come, Whoever You Are

  Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
  It doesn't matter.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 6 lines, 1 comment
• Houses Chapter IX

  A mason came forth and said, \

  by Khalil Gibran 29 lines
• Battle of Red Cliff

  The Yangtze flows east
  Washing away

  by Su Tung-po 59 lines
• Before The Rain

  We knew it would rain, for all the morn
  A spirit on slender ropes of mist

  by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 11 lines, 3 comments
• The Chariot Race (From "Electra")

  They took their stand where the appointed judges
  Had cast their lots and ranged the rival cars.

  by Sophocles 49 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
• A Fair Eubœan Shore

  There stretcheth by the sea
  A fair Eubœan shore, and o'er it creeps

  by Sophocles 9 lines
• Hero and Leander

  Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one ground ;
  Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd

  by John Donne 2 lines
• Excerpt From The Human Clay

  Are my tears vinegar and yours honey? Is my weeping humiliation, your
  moaning dominion?

  by Ilya Abu Madi 8 lines, 2 comments
• Hate

  They say we must not hate, nor fight in hate.
  I've thought it over many a solemn hour,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 30 lines
• Photography Extraordinary

  Scorch'd by her fierce, relentless eye,
  Nothingness is my destiny!

  by Lewis Carroll 21 lines
• Threshold

  I was not aware of the moment
  when I first crossed the threshold of this life.

  by Rabindranath Tagore 14 lines, 1 comment
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1 - 250 (Whinfield Translation)

  1.
  At dawn a cry through all the tavern shrilled,

  by Omar Khayyam 1250 lines
• A Cow and a Goat

  There was a verdant pasture somewhere
  Whose land was the very picture of beauty

  by Muhammed Iqbal 58 lines, 6 comments
• Gaita Galaica (With English Translation)

  Bagpipes of Spain, ye that can sing
  That which is sweetest to us in the Spring!

  by Ruben Dario 31 lines
• Returning To Live In The South (I)

  When young, I'd not enjoyed the common pleasures,
  My nature's basic love was for the hills.

  by Tao Chien 20 lines, 3 comments
• The Creation I

  The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. He gave her the cup o

  by Khalil Gibran 5 lines, 1 comment
• Stars in the Sea

  I took a boat on a starry night
  and went for a row on the water,

  by Roderic Quinn 28 lines, 2 comments
• Have you ever made a just man?

  "Have you ever made a just man?"
  "Oh, I have made three," answered God,

  by Stephen Maria Crane 6 lines, 1 comment
• Désirs

  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, 1 comment
• Self-Knowledge XVII

  And a man said, "Speak to us of Self-Knowledge."
  And he answered, saying:

  by Khalil Gibran 18 lines
• This Aloneness

  This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
  This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines, 2 comments
• Poem 6

  TELL me, O Swan, your ancient tale.
  From what land do you come, O Swan? to what shore will you fly?

  by Kabir 7 lines
• Narva and Mored

  Recite the loves of Narva and Mored
  The priest of Chalma's triple idol said.

  by Thomas Chatterton 105 lines, 1 comment
• Eating And Drinking Chapter VI

  Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, \

  by Khalil Gibran 18 lines
• Lost Time

  On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time.
  But it is never lost, my lord.

  by Rabindranath Tagore 9 lines, 3 comments

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