Poems begining by S
/ page 74 of 287 /Silsile toR gayaa vo
© Ahmad Faraz
silsile toR gayaa vo sabhii jaate jaate
varnaa itne to maraasim the ke aate jaate
Song for a German Air
© Louisa Stuart Costello
Fair stream of the mountain, brightly flowing
Between thy fresh margins, gay with flowers,
Sunset Wings
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
TO-NIGHT this sunset spreads two golden wings
Cleaving the western sky;
Spare Parts by Trish Dugger: American Life in Poetry #153 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006
© Ted Kooser
In this endearing short poem by Californian Trish Dugger, we can imagine âwhat if?â? What if we had been given âa baker's dozen of hearts?â? I imagine many more and various love poems would be written. Here Ms. Dugger, Poet Laureate of the City of Encinitas, makes fine use of the one patched but good heart she has.
Spare Parts
We barge out of the womb
with two of them: eyes, ears,
Sister
© Gabriela Mistral
Today I saw a woman plowing a furrow. Her hips are
broad, like mine, for love, and she goes about her work
bent over the earth.
Songs Of Education: IV. Citizenship
© Gilbert Keith Chesterton
How slowly learns the child at school
The names of all the nobs that rule
From Ponsonby to Pennant;
Ere his bewildered mind find rest,
Knowing his host can be a Guest,
His landlord is a Tennant.
Sheep
© Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall
LIKE the slow thunder of long seas on the height
Where God has set no sea,
Voices of folded sheep in the quiet of night
Came on the wind to me.
Sparrows Self-Domesticated In Trinity College, Cambridge
© William Cowper
None ever shared the social feast,
Or as an inmate or a guest,
Sylvesters Dying Bed
© Langston Hughes
I woke up this mornin
Bout half-past three.
All the womens in town
Was gathered round me.
Sonnet XVIII: Since the First Look
© Samuel Daniel
Since the first look that led me to this error,
To this thought's-maze, to my confusion tending,
Streets
© Paul Verlaine
Above all else I loved her eyes,
More clear than stars of cloudless skies,
And arch and mischievous and wise.
Sonnets Of The Blood I
© Allen Tate
What is the flesh and blood compounded of
But a few moments in the life of time?
St. Francis Of Borgia By The Coffin Of Queen Isabel
© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Open the coffin and shroud until
I look on the dead again
Sonnet. The Human Seasons
© John Keats
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
Self-Contained
© Walt Whitman
I think I could turn and live with the animals,
They are so placid and self-contained.
Second Sunday In Advent
© John Keble
Not till the freezing blast is still,
Till freely leaps the sparkling rill,
Sonnet 5
© Richard Barnfield
It is reported of faire Thetis' Sonne
(Achilles famous for his chiualry,