You Mustn’t Show Weakness (Yehuda Amichai Poems)
You mustn't show weakness and you've got to have a tan. But sometimes I feel like the thin veils of ...
Poems about last (51 Poems)
God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
God has pity on kindergarten children, He pities school children -- less. But adults he pities not at all. He ...
Before (Yehuda Amichai Poem)
Before the gate has been closed, before the last quetion is posed, before I am transposed. Before the weeds fill ...
Obermann Once More (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
Thyrsis, a Monody (Matthew Arnold Poem)
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
Rugby Chapel (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
Sohrab and Rustum (Matthew Arnold Poem)
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Memorial Verses (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. But one such death remain'd to come; The ...
A Wish (Matthew Arnold Poem)
I ask not that my bed of death From bands of greedy heirs be free; For these besiege the latest ...
The Forsaken Merman (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...
The Last Word (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself ...
The Scholar Gypsy (Matthew Arnold Poem)
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
The Moment (Margaret Atwood Poem)
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your ...
Postcards (Margaret Atwood Poem)
I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is ...
Siren Song (Margaret Atwood Poem)
This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men ...
The Rock Cries Out to Us Today (Maya Angelou Poem)
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
Alone (Maya Angelou Poem)
Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is ...
Men (Maya Angelou Poem)
When I was young, I used to Watch behind the curtains As men walked up and down the street. Wino ...
Carry On! (Robert W. Service Poem)
It's easy to fight when everything's right, And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer ...
Start Where You Stand (Berton Braley Poem)
Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new, If you have ...