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Showing posts with label best poems of all time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label best poems of all time. Show all posts
26.5.18

Song Of Myself, XXXIII, by Walt Whitman

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Being wise cannot be hidden the same as being simpleminded. Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess’d at, Wh...
26.2.18

I Know, You Walk--

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by Hermann Hesse Born in the German Empire, when the Germans  had no empire, Hesse didn't win the 1946  Nobel Prize in Literature fo...
25.8.16

as freedom is a breakfastfood

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by e. e. cummings E.E. Cummings dressed in his First World War military uniform. WWI was far more psychologically damaging than t...
15.7.16

Myth, by Natasha Trethewey

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Copyright © 2007 by  Natasha Trethewey , who was twice named Poet Laureate of the United States of America , serving that duty from 2012 to...
10.12.15

Children, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1807 - d. 1882), Harvard professor and lifelong poet who experimented with many styles throughout his...
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29.11.15

"Invictus: The Unconquerable" by William Ernest Henley

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Out of the night that covers me,      Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be      For my unconquerable s...
17.10.15

How to Meditate, by Jack Kerouac

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-lights out- fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine, the gland inside of my brain dischar...
1.10.15

Be not sad, by James Joyce

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Be not sad because all men Prefer a lying clamour before you: Sweetheart, be at peace again -- - Can they dishonour you? They are...
21.9.15

Each and All, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upl...
13.9.15

SONNET 69, by William Shakespeare

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Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend; All tongues, the voice of sou...

Genius, by Mark Twain

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity. Geniuses are people who dash of weird, wild, inc...
4.9.15

Conversation, by Elizabeth Bishop

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The tumult in the heart keeps asking questions. And then it stops and undertakes to answer in the same tone of voice. No one could ...
26.8.15

The Traveler's Curse after Misdirection, by Robert Graves

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May they stumble, stage by stage On an endless Pilgrimage Dawn and dusk, mile after mile At each and every step a stile At each and ...
20.7.15

love is more thicker than forget

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by E. E. Cummings e.e. cummings enjoys a cigarette with the characteristic stare of someone who loves life and, therefore, living. ...
4.7.15

since feeling is first, by e.e. cummings

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Edward Estlin Cummings enjoying life at his Joy Farm in New Hampshire.  Only having seen the worst humanity had to offer was he able ...
23.6.15

SONNET 94, by William Shakespeare

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They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
30.5.15

Be kind, by Charles Bukowski

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we are always asked to understand the other person's viewpoint no matter how out-dated foolish or obnoxious. one is asked...
24.5.15

now does our world descend, by e.e. cummings

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Edward Estlin Cummings displayed an innocence in his eyes that he would never recover following his experience as an ambulance driv...
20.4.15

If, by Rudyard Kipling

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt ...
3.4.15

The road not taken, by Robert Frost

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as...