Poems begining by S

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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?

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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

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Swordfish

© Andrew Hudgins

My fingertips marveled at the silvery shimmer,


already less silver, less shimmery than when it lived.

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She Was a Phantom of Delight

© André Breton

She was a Phantom of delight


When first she gleamed upon my sight;

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Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows

© William Shakespeare

When I consider everything that grows


Holds in perfection but a little moment,

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Shore Scene

© John Logan

There were bees about. From the start I thought 

The day was apt to hurt. There is a high 

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Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

© William Shakespeare

Not marble nor the gilded monuments


Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,

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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,

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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,

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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.

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Song

© Aphra Behn

O Love! that stronger art than wine,

Pleasing delusion, witchery divine,

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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,
 ‘I’ll hear you by and by.’

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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.

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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

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Somebody Trying

© Denise Levertov

‘That creep Tolstoy,’ she sobbed.
‘He. . . He. . . couldn’t even. . .’
Something about his brother dying.

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Susie Asado

© Gertrude Stein

Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea.

  Susie Asado.

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Scissors

© Samuel Menashe

Sharpen your wit—
Each half of it—
Before you shut
Scissors to cut

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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.

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Soonest Mended

© John Ashbery

Barely tolerated, living on the margin

In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued