Poems begining by K
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Kinu Goalas Alley English Translation
© Rabindranath Tagore
This is the alley
Named after Kinu the milkman.
Kept Waiting
© Bai Juyi
White billows and huge waves block the river crossing;
Wherever I go, danger and difficulty; whatever I do, failure.
Kites
© William Rose Benet
High on the telephone wires, the paltry pitiful thing
Hangs in rags and tatters and loops of string.
A slight breeze shakes it, but cannot shake it down.
It flutters and flutters forgotten above the town.
Kings Chapel
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
Is it a weanling's weakness for the past
That in the stormy, rebel-breeding town,
Swept clean of relics by the levelling blast,
[Klockius]
© John Donne
Klockius so deeply hath sworn ne'er more to come
In bawdy house, that he dares not go home.
King Cophetua The First
© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
Said Jove within himself one day,
I'll make me a mistress out of clay!
Kind Sir: These Woods
© Anne Sexton
Kind Sir: This is an old game
that we played when we were eight and ten.
Kossuth
© John Greenleaf Whittier
Type of two mighty continents!--combining
The strength of Europe with the warmth and glow
Knock On The Door
© Conrad Aiken
Knock on the door, and you shall have an answer!
Open the heavy walls to set me free,
Kiama Revisited
© Henry Kendall
WE STOOD by the window and hearkened
To the voice of the runnels sea-driven,
Kaiser Dead
© Matthew Arnold
What, Kaiser dead? The heavy news
Post-haste to Cobham calls the Muse,
From where in Farringford she brews
The ode sublime,
Or with Pen-bryn's bold bard pursues
A rival rhyme.
Kathleens Lover
© Dora Sigerson Shorter
I would I had a thousand tongues
To sing thy praise, to sing thy praise,
Khabaram raseed imshab
© Amir Khusro
Khabaram raseed imshab ki nigaar khuahi aamad;
Sar-e man fidaa-e raah-e ki sawaar khuahi aamad.
Keep your eyes open when you kiss
© John Berryman
Before who wanted eyes, making love, so?
I do now. However we are driven and hide,
What state we keep all other states condemn,
We see ourselves, we watch the solemn glow
Of empty courts we kiss in .. Open wide!
You do, you do, and I look into them.
