Poems about peacefulness (20 Poems)
Queen Mab: Part IV. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
‘How beautiful this night! the balmiest sigh, Which vernal zephyrs breathe in evening’s ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven’s ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon’s unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love … Continue reading
Immortal Eve – I (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1I the first man, the majestyOf creatures, Time’s tall birth,Spring at God’s finger-touch erect,Glorying upon earth. Above me the blue solemn heavens,Around, the sun, the shade,Green, whispering, glorious wilderness,I knew for me were made; For me all broad Euphrates flowedAs … Continue reading
Black Bonnets (Henry Lawson Poems)
A day of seeming innocence,A glorious sun and sky,And, just above my picket fence,Black Bonnet passing by.In knitted gloves and quaint old dress,Without a spot or smirch,Her worn face lit with peacefulness,Old Granny goes to church. Her hair is richly … Continue reading
The Road That Has No End (Joseph Burrows Poems)
HAST ever tramped along the road That has no end?The far brown winding road,-your one Fast friendA tattered weather-beaten swag, A silent mate To sendHis dumb warm comfort to the heart, A fount where dreams ascend. There’s wondrous freedom on the road That has no end;A … Continue reading
A King’s Soliloquy [On the Night of His Funeral] (Thomas Hardy Poems)
From the slow march and muffled drum,And crowds distrest,And book and bell, at length I have comeTo my full rest. A ten years’ rule beneath the sunIs wound up here,And what I have done, what left undone,Figures out clear. Yet … Continue reading
Flowers (James Russell Lowell Poems)
O poet! above all men blest,Take heed that thus thou store them;Love, Hope, and Faith shall ever rest,Sweet birds (upon how sweet a nest!)Watchfully brooding o’er them.And from those flowers of ParadiseScatter thou many a blessed seed,Wherefrom an offspring may … Continue reading
They Betrayed Virtue and the Last Came First… (Kostas Karyotakis Poems)
They betrayed virtue and the last came first.With money the heart is taken and the friend is appraised.If once it was shimmering in the mind, in the eyes, in everything,life is already dark and unfeasible like a legend,it’s bitterness on … Continue reading
Sonnet XI. To The Same. (Henry Alford Poems)
Cheeriest of maidens, who, with light of bliss That waneth never in thy gladsome eye, Passest all lightly earth’s sad sorrows by, Scarce crediting report of aught amiss In the wide–wasted world; on thee the smile Of heavenly peacefulness doth ever rest, And thou art joying … Continue reading
Cards of Fortune (Eliza Acton Poems)
MANY a graven gem, besetWith gold, is worn as an amuletIn the far-off climes of the East,—a charmTo preserve the bosom from grief and harm.Within thy breast a spirit dwells,More powerful ev’n than Arab-spells :—‘Tis Love!—oh, keep it pure—and still‘Twill … Continue reading
Evensong (Conrad Potter Aiken Poems)
I In the pale mauve twilight, streaked with orange, Exquisitely sweet,— She leaned upon her balcony and looked across the street; And across the huddled roofs of the misty city, Across the hills of tenements, so gray, She looked into … Continue reading