Human Family (Maya Angelou Poems)
I note the obvious differencesin the human family.Some of us are serious,some thrive on comedy.Some declare their lives are livedas ...
Reality Poems (303 Poems)
Be Lost In The Call (Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi Poems)
Lord, said David, since you do not need us,why did you create these two worlds?Reality replied: O prisoner of time,I ...
Procemion (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
IN His blest name, who was His own creation,Who from all time makes making his vocation;The name of Him who ...
Love (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
Twice I awoke this night, and wentto the window. The streetlamps werea fragment of a sentence spoken in sleep,leading to ...
Life’s Question (Henry Alford Poems)
Drifting awayLike mote on the stream,To--day's disappointmentYesterday's dream;Ever resolving--Never to mend:Such is our progress:Where is the end?Whirling awayLike leaf in ...
The Song Of The Twelve Deceptions (Jetsun Milarepa Poems)
Worldly affairs are all deceptive;So I seek the Truth Divine.Excitements and distractions are illusions;So I meditate on the Non-dual Truth.Companions ...
The Last Harbor (Patience Worth Poems)
Eve sends her silver arrows upO'er night's rim. The waters lap,Languorously lapping at the heaven's fringe.Lo, a mast, tilted 'gainst ...
Paradiso (Kenneth Koch Poems)
There is no way not to be excitedWhen what you have been disillusioned by raises its headFrom its arms and ...
XCVI. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
All woman-kind are of intellect deficient;And the voluntary causes of all life's ills.Thou mayst be straight and even with them;But ...
In Memoriam Mae Noblitt (Archie Randolph Ammons Poems)
This is just a place:we go around, distanced,yearly in a star'satmosphere, turningdaily into and out ofdirect light andslanting through thequadrant ...
Adumbration (Norman MacLeod Poems)
You are a simulacrumOf what I believe you to beAnd what is neededBut you are somethingOther than thisYou answer off-key.Spike ...
The Orphan’s Good-Bye (Nora Pembroke Poems)
When my heart was sad and lonely, And had closed its inmost cellOver the impulsive feelings That rule my nation's hearts too ...
Fact (Martin Farquhar Tupper Poems)
The die is cast,-- be satisfied; The chance is past,-- be still;For this, no more Occasion's tide Can waft thee good or ...
Idea (Karin Boye Poems)
Here I go not. This is not I.This is a lying reflection alone,asking, wondering where I have gone,yearning one day ...
Perception (Peter Courtney Quennell Poems)
While I have vision, while the glowing-bodied,Drunken with light, untroubled clouds, with all this cold sphered sky,Are flushed above trees ...
I want to serve you (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
1I want to serve youOn an equal footing with others;From jealousy, to tell your fortuneWith dry lips. The word does ...
Of Man’s Perfection in Love (Jacopone da Todi Poems)
0 minstrel, raise thy plaintive melody,and let thy song be tender to my soul:upon the subtle ninefold modes of lovedisplay ...
“I want to serve you” (Osip Emilevich Mandelstam Poems)
1I want to serve youOn an equal footing with others;From jealousy, to tell your fortuneWith dry lips. The word does ...
On Health (Jan Kochanowski Poems)
My good and noble health,Thou matter'st more then wealth.None know'th thy worth untilThou fad'st, and we fall ill.And every man ...
An Old Woman (Mina Loy Poems)
The past has come apartevents are vagueingthe future is a seedless podthe present pain.Not even pain has that precisionwith which ...
Shakespeare’ (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
I saw the grave of Shakespeare in a dream,And round about it grouped a wondrous throng,His own majestic mourners, who ...
Reality (Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi Poems)
These are my scales to weigh reality,-A dream, a chord, a longing, love of Thee.Real as the violets of April ...
“This Mortal shall put on Immortality” (John Bowring Poems)
When shall mortal man be crowned, Crowned with immortality?Shadows here our path surround; Nothing is reality.Mists and darkness cover us— When shall they ...
Poem For My Twentieth Birthday (Kenneth Koch Poems)
Passing the American graveyard, for my birthdaythe crosses stuttering, white on tropical green,the years' quick focus of faces I do ...
Heaven (Patience Worth Poems)
Companionable, sae near,Sae close confidin', neither removed-Less than imagination, more than fancy;For imagination is inflamed-And fancy but beckons.Companionable; builded of ...
Twilights (Henrikas Radauskas Poems)
A paled evening, turning to fog,Seeps from a quiet sky into the gardenThrough a green leaf glass, rustles in the ...
Upon the path of dreams (Ono no Komachi Poems)
Upon the path of dreamsMy feet don't rest,Constantly trailing to you, yetIn reality, a single glimpse:Not even that have I ...
Life (Juan Ramon Jimenez Poems)
What I used to regard as a glory shut in my face,was a door, openingtoward this clarity:Country without a name:Nothing ...
A Faith On Trial (George Meredith Poems)
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
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 ...