Life poems
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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - part 06
© Torquato Tasso
LXXXII
"Love hath Eustatio chosen, Fortune thee,
The Effigies
© Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Warrior! whose image on thy tomb,
With shield and crested head,
Second Sunday In Advent
© John Keble
Not till the freezing blast is still,
Till freely leaps the sparkling rill,
The Sailor
© Samuel Rogers
The Sailor sighs as sinks his native shore,
As all its lessening turrets bluely fade;
He climbs the mast to feast his eye once more,
And busy Fancy fondly lends her aid.
Anglers Fireside Song
© Henry Van Dyke
Oh, the angler's path is a very merry way,
And his road through the world is bright;
Mark Twain
© Edgar Albert Guest
MARK TWAIN is dead! No, no, that cannot be,
Say rather Clemens knows life's mystery,
Say rather Clemens has been called above,
But Twain still lives for all the world to love.
Ginkgo Biloba
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To my garden here translated,
Foliage of this eastern tree
Nourishes the initiated
With its meanings mystery.
They Sit Together on the Porch by Wendell Berry: American Life in Poetry #68 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet L
© Ted Kooser
Here is a marvelous little poem about a long marriage by the Kentucky poet, Wendell Berry. It's about a couple resigned to and comfortable with their routines. It is written in language as clear and simple as its subject. As close together as these two people have grown, as much alike as they have become, there is always the chance of the one, unpredictable, small moment of independence. Who will be the first to say goodnight?
They Sit Together on the Porch
The Domain
© John Le Gay Brereton
The bulging cloud mounts lazily
In shade where sunlight glances through,
And sweeping lightly from the tree
Melts indolently in the blue.
To A Little Charmer
© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Come kiss me, little Charmer,
Nor suppose a kiss can harm you;
A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXIII
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
So I, I am ashamed of my old life,
Here in this saintly presence of days gone,
Ashamed of my weak heart's unmeaning strife,
Its loves, its lusts, its battles lost and won,
Eclogue:Composed at Cannes, December 9th, 1867
© Edward Lear
J--See Catherine comes! To her, to her,
Let each his several miseries refer;
She shall decide whose woes are least or worst,
And which, as growler, shall rank last or first.
No Life Vain
© Hartley Coleridge
LET me not deem that I was made in vain,
Or that my being was an accident,
Through The Looking Glass: Epilogue
© Lewis Carroll
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July -
Thespis: Act I
© William Schwenck Gilbert
Jupiter, Aged Diety
Apollo, Aged Diety
Mars, Aged Diety
Diana, Aged Diety
Mercury
"Only A Year"
© Harriet Beecher Stowe
One year ago,--a ringing voice,
A clear blue eye,
And clustering curls of sunny hair,
Too fair to die.
Ashtabula Disaster
© Julia A Moore
Swiftly passed the engine's call,
Hastening souls on to death,
Warning not one of them all;
It brought despair right and left.
Book Of Hafis - The Unlimited
© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
THAT thou can't never end, doth make thee great,
And that thou ne'er beginnest, is thy fate.
