Poems begining by S
/ page 149 of 287 /Sonnet LXXVI: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
© William Shakespeare
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Snow Day
© Billy Collins
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,
its white flag waving over everything,
the landscape vanished,
not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness,
and beyond these windows
Swordfish
© Andrew Hudgins
My fingertips marveled at the silvery shimmer,
already less silver, less shimmery than when it lived.
She Was a Phantom of Delight
© André Breton
She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows
© William Shakespeare
When I consider everything that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
Shore Scene
© John Logan
There were bees about. From the start I thought
The day was apt to hurt. There is a high
Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
© William Shakespeare
Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years,
Sonnet CXXI: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
© William Shakespeare
’Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
When not to be receives reproach of being,
Sudden Light
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
Song: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed...
© Amelia Opie
A youth for Jane with ardour sighed,
The maid with sparkling eye;
But to his vows she still replied,
Ill hear you by and by.
Smokers of Paper
© Cesare Pavese
He’s brought me to hear his band. He sits in a corner
mouthing his clarinet. A hellish racket begins.
Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
© Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul
Somebody Trying
© Denise Levertov
‘That creep Tolstoy,’ she sobbed.
‘He. . . He. . . couldn’t even. . .’
Something about his brother dying.
Sapphics
© Algernon Charles Swinburne
All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids,
Shed not dew, nor shook nor unclosed a feather,
Yet with lips shut close and with eyes of iron
Stood and beheld me.
Soonest Mended
© John Ashbery
Barely tolerated, living on the margin
In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued