My Retreat (Jose Rizal Poems)
Beside a spacious beach of fine and delicate sandand at the foot of a mountain greener than a leaf,I planted ...
Jose Rizal Poems (25 Poems)
The Last Poem of Rizal (Jose Rizal Poems)
Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed,Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost,With gladness I give you ...
To My — (Jose Rizal Poems)
No more is the muse invoked;the lyre is out of fashion;no poet cares to use it;by other things are the ...
My last Thought (Jose Rizal Poems)
Land I adore, farewell! thou land of the southern sun's choosing!Pearl of the Orient seas! our forfeited Garden of Eden!Joyous I yield ...
Education Gives Luster to Motherland (Jose Rizal Poems)
Wise education, vital breathInspires an enchanting virtue;She puts the Country in the lofty seatOf endless glory, of dazzling glow,And just ...
They Ask Me for Verses! (Jose Rizal Poems)
IThey bid me strike the lyreso long now mute and broken,but not a note can I wakennor will my muse ...
Hymn to Talisay (Jose Rizal Poems)
Hail, Talisay,firm and faithful,ever forwardmarch elate!You, victorious,the elements-land, sea and air-shall dominate!The sandy beach of Dapitanand the rocks of its ...
To the Flowers of Heidelberg (Jose Rizal Poems)
Go to my country, go, O foreign flowers,sown by the traveler along the road,and under that blue heaventhat watches over ...
Memories of My Town (Jose Rizal Poems)
When I recall the daysThat saw my childhood of yoreBeside the verdant shoreOf a murmuring lagoon;When I remember the sighsOf ...
A Tribute to My Town (Jose Rizal Poems)
When I remember the daysthat saw my early childhoodspent on the green shoresof a murmurous lagoon;when I remember the coolness,delicious ...
To the Philippine Youth (Jose Rizal Poems)
Hold high the brow serene,O youth, where now you stand;Let the bright sheenOf your grace be seen,Fair hope of my ...
Hymn To Labor (Jose Rizal Poems)
Chorus:For the Motherland in war,For the Motherland in peace,Will the Filipino keep watch,He will live until life will cease!MEN:Now the ...
Miss C.O. y R. (Jose Rizal Poems)
Why ask for those unintellectual versesthat once, insane with grief, I sang aghast?Or are you maybe throwing in my facemy ...
Song of the Wanderer (Jose Rizal Poems)
Dry leaf that flies at randomtill it's seized by a wind from above:so lives on earth the wanderer,without north, without ...
Felicitation (Jose Rizal Poems)
IIf Philomela with harmonious tongueTo blond Apollo, who manifests his faceBehind high hill or overhanging mountain,Canticles sends.IISo we as well, ...
First Inspiration (Jose Rizal Poems)
Why falls so rich a sprayof fragrance from the bowersof the balmy flowersupon this festive day?Why from woods and valesdo ...
Flower Among Flowers (Jose Rizal Poems)
Flower among flowers,soft bud swooning,that the wind movesto a gentle crooning.Wind of heaven,wind of love,you who gladdenall you espy;you who ...
Our Mother Tongue (Jose Rizal Poems)
IF truly a people dearly loveThe tongue to them by Heaven sent,They'll surely yearn for libertyLike a bird above in ...
To The Philippines (Jose Rizal Poems)
Warm and beautiful like a houri of yore,as gracious and as pure as the break of dawnwhen darling clouds take ...
To the Virgin Mary (Jose Rizal Poems)
Mary, sweet peace and dearest consolationof suffering mortal: you are the fount whence springsthe current of solicitude that bringsunto our ...
Kundiman (English Translation) (Jose Rizal Poems)
Now mute indeed are tongue and heart:love shies away, joy stands apart.Neglected by its leaders and defeated,the country was subdued ...
A Poem That Has No Title (Jose Rizal Poems)
To my Creator I singWho did soothe me in my great loss;To the Merciful and KindWho in my troubles gave ...
The Song of Maria Clara (Jose Rizal Poems)
Sweet the hours in the native country,where friendly shines the sun above!Life is the breeze that sweeps the meadows;tranquil is ...
Kundiman (Jose Rizal Poems)
Tunay ngayong umid yaring dila't pusoSinta'y umiilag, tuwa'y lumalayo,Bayan palibhasa'y lupig at sumukoSa kapabayaan ng nagturong puno.Datapuwa't muling sisikat ang ...
Goodbye to Leonor (Jose Rizal Poems)
And so it has arrived -- the fatal instant,the dismal injunction of my cruel fate;so it has come at last ...