Poems about overcomes (18 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 1: Third Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
TANSILLO. There are several varieties of enthusiasts, which may all be reduced totwo kinds. While some only display blindness, stupidity, and irrationalimpetuosity, which tend towards savage madness, others by divineabstraction become in reality superior to ordinary men. And these againare … Continue reading
Poetry And Reality (Jane Taylor Poems)
THE worldly minded, cast in common mould,With all his might pursuing fame or gold,And towards that goal too vehemently hurledTo waste a thought about another world,Has one advantage which yon lofty host,His intellectual betters, may not boast :Neither deceiving nor … Continue reading
Elegy I (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against his heart, I would perishin the embrace of his stronger existence.For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we … Continue reading
Epilogue to Schiller’s Song of the Bell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.) AND so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught,A new-born joy appear’d; in gladsome song … Continue reading
Song Of The Rain VII (Khalil Gibran Poems)
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heavenBy the gods. Nature then takes me, to adornHer fields and valleys. I am beautiful pearls, plucked from theCrown of Ishtar by the daughter of DawnTo embellish the gardens. When I cry the … Continue reading
Faith Is The Victory (John Henry Yates Poems)
Encamped along the hills of light,Ye Christian soldiers, rise.And press the battle ere the nightShall veil the glowing skies.Against the foe in vales belowLet all our strength be hurled.Faith is the victory, we know,That overcomes the world. His banner over … Continue reading
Wild Orchids (Joseph Pullman Porter Poems)
Under the pines, near the murmuring brook,I know the wild orchids grow,Fair and pure in their shady nook,A page in God’s own wonderful bookWith a message for me to know. Come in the Spring to that beautiful bowerAnd pause by … Continue reading
Briefly It Enters, Briefly Speaks (Jane Kenyon Poems)
I am the blossom pressed in a book,found again after two hundred years. . . . I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper…. When the young girl who starvessits down to a tableshe will sit beside me. . … Continue reading
The Jazz Rythms (Janina Degutyte Poems)
This restlessness with no name overcomes us and drives us onAnd we run away from home in thoughts or on trains or planesAnd we spill into the streets and fill hotels and cafesOr set out on a raft alone - to confront the seas. … Continue reading
Excerpt From The Human Clay (Ilya Abu Madi Poems)
Are my tears vinegar and yours honey? Is my weeping humiliation, yourmoaning dominion?Do you think you are strong, while the mosquito feeds on your cheeksignoring the sword in your hand?Are you powerful? then command sleep as it overcomes you to … Continue reading