Old Poetry, by popularity

• i carry your heart with me

  i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
  my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

  by e e cummings 16 lines, 31 comments
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

  Do not go gentle into that good night,
  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

  by Dylan Thomas 23 lines, 61 comments
• Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

  Whose woods these are I think I know.
  His house is in the village though;

  by Robert Frost 16 lines, 123 comments
• The Three Little Pigs

  The animal I really dig,
  Above all others is the pig.

  by Roald Dahl 94 lines, 6 comments
• Mother To Son

  Well, son, I'll tell you:
  Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

  by Langston Hughes 19 lines, 25 comments
• Sonnet XVII: I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, topaz

  I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
  or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

  by Pablo Neruda 16 lines, 59 comments
• Himself

  Last night, when I was listenin’
  Alone, to wind and rain,

  by Alice Guerin Crist 53 lines, 28 comments
• The Rose That Grew From Concrete

  Did you hear about the rose that grew
  from a crack in the concrete?

  by Tupac Shakur 7 lines, 24 comments
• All The World's A Stage

  All the world's a stage,
  And all the men and women merely players;

  by William Shakespeare 27 lines, 70 comments
• If....

  If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

  by Rudyard Kipling 34 lines, 45 comments
• Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

  I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
  Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,

  by Pablo Neruda 48 lines, 27 comments
• Love

  Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
  Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.

  by Pablo Neruda 27 lines, 18 comments
• A Poison Tree

  I was angry with my friend:
  I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

  by William Blake 18 lines, 69 comments
• Beach Burial

  Softly and humbly to the Gulf of Arabs
  The convoys of dead sailors come;

  by Kenneth Slessor 51 lines, 5 comments
• Dohas (Couplets) I (with translation)

  Chalti Chakki Dekh Kar, Diya Kabira Roye
  Dui Paatan Ke Beech Mein,Sabit Bacha Na

  by Kabir 53 lines, 24 comments
• Voices Of The Night : A Psalm Of Life

  Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
      Life is but an empty dream! — 

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 43 lines, 43 comments
• If I could write words

  If I could write words
  Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,

  by Spike Milligan 6 lines, 23 comments
• Bear In There

  There's a polar bear
  In our Frigidaire--

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 17 lines, 7 comments
• Fire And Ice

    Some say the world will end in fire,
    Some say in ice.

  by Robert Frost 8 lines, 40 comments
• Here I Love You

  Here I love you.
  In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself.

  by Pablo Neruda 32 lines, 11 comments
• So You Want To Be A Writer

  if it doesn't come bursting out of you
  in spite of everything,

  by Charles Bukowski 68 lines, 36 comments
• Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

  Earth has not anything to show more fair:
  Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

  by William Wordsworth 13 lines, 29 comments
• Risk

  And then the day came,
  when the risk

  by Anais Nin 7 lines, 18 comments
• Mirror

  I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
  Whatever I see I swallow immediately

  by Sylvia Plath 18 lines, 32 comments
• The Ballad Of The Landlord

  Landlord, landlord,
  My roof has sprung a leak.

  by Langston Hughes 38 lines, 8 comments
• Bah, Bah, Black Sheep

  Bah, bah, black sheep,
      Have you any wool?

  by Anonymous British 7 lines, 8 comments
• may i feel said he

  may i feel said he
  (i'll squeal said she

  by e e cummings 38 lines, 19 comments
• The Lion and Albert

  There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool,
  That's noted for fresh air and fun,

  by Marriott Edgar 88 lines, 49 comments
• Jhansi Ki Rani (With English Translation)

  Sinhasan hil uthey raajvanshon ney bhrukuti tani thi,
  budhey Bharat mein aayee phir se nayi jawani thi,

  by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan 287 lines, 19 comments
• The Man He Killed

  Had he and I but met
  By some old ancient inn,

  by Thomas Hardy 20 lines, 46 comments
• When We Two Parted

  When we two parted
    In silence and tears,

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 34 lines, 14 comments
• My Country

  The love of field and coppice
  Of green and shaded lanes,

  by Dorothea Mackellar 52 lines, 38 comments
• Funeral Blues

  Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
  Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,

  by W H Auden 18 lines, 17 comments
• When I Love

  When I love
  I feel that I am the king of time

  by Nizar Qabbani 19 lines, 8 comments
• Cinderella

  I guess you think you know this story.
  You don't. The real one's much more gory.

  by Roald Dahl 127 lines, 4 comments
• Feelings

  There must be a wound!
  No one can be this hurt

  by Spike Milligan 12 lines, 40 comments
• Where The Mind Is Without Fear

  Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
  Where knowledge is free

  by Rabindranath Tagore 10 lines, 16 comments
• Alone

  From childhood's hour I have not been
  As others were; I have not seen

  by Edgar Allan Poe 22 lines, 74 comments
• Phenomenal Woman

  Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
  I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size

  by Dr. Maya Angelou 60 lines, 50 comments
• Derelict

  Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—
  Drink and the devil had done for the rest—

  by Young Ewing Allison 70 lines, 3 comments

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