Poems about Philosophy

• If You Show Patience

  If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
  If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines, 1 comment
• Freedom XIV

  And an orator said, \

  by Khalil Gibran 22 lines, 2 comments
• Tall Ships And Tall Kings

  Tall ships and tall kings
  Three times three

  by J R R Tolkien 5 lines
• Reason And Passion XV

  And the priestess spoke again and said: "Speak to us of Reason and Passion."
  And he answered saying:

  by Khalil Gibran 16 lines
• How Long

  How long will you think about this painful life?
  How long will you think about this harmful world?

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 5 lines
• 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
• Love is Essential

  Love is essential.
  Sex, mere accident.

  by Fernando Pessoa 8 lines
• Affection

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

  by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 12 lines
• Self-Knowledge XVII

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

  by Khalil Gibran 18 lines
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1 - 250 (Whinfield Translation)

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

  by Omar Khayyam 1250 lines
• Late, by Myself

  Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
  no light and no land anywhere,

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 6 lines, 1 comment
• In the End

  In the end, the mountains of imagination were nothing
  but a house.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 5 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
• The Taste of Morning

  Time's knife slides from the sheath,
  as fish from where it swims.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 13 lines
• You Personify God's Message

  You personify God's message.
  You reflect the King's face.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines
• Madness of Love is no more

  mohabbat ka junuu.N baaqii nahii.n hai
  musalamaano.n me.n Khuun baaqii nahii.n hai

  by Muhammed Iqbal 8 lines, 1 comment
• Poem 8

  THE river and its waves are one
  surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves?

  by Kabir 6 lines
• To Youth

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

  by Sarojini Naidu 12 lines
• In Youth I have Known One

  How often we forget all time, when lone
  Admiring Nature's universal throne;

  by Edgar Allan Poe 40 lines, 3 comments
• Any Lifetime

  Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
  Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines, 2 comments
• Talking XX

  And then a scholar said, "Speak of Talking."
  And he answered, saying:

  by Khalil Gibran 15 lines, 2 comments
• Any Soul That Drank the Nectar

  Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
  From that water of life he is in a state of elation.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Truth

  "Truth," said a traveller,
  "Is a rock, a mighty fortress;

  by Stephen Maria Crane 17 lines, 8 comments
• Poem 7

  O LORD Increate, who will serve Thee?
  Every votary offers his worship to the God of his own creation: each day he receives service--

  by Kabir 7 lines
• Love And Madness

  Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower
  The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour !

  by Thomas Campbell 72 lines
• Good And Evil XXII

  And one of the elders of the city said, \

  by Khalil Gibran 29 lines
• There is a Way

  There is a way between voice and presence
  where information flows.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines
• Here Is This Day

  Here is this day,
  Across the fields of darkness softly come

  by Nancy Byrd Turner 34 lines, 1 comment
• Not Intrigued With Evening

  What the material world values does
  not shine the same in the truth of the soul.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 16 lines

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