Old Poetry, by popularity

• The Negro Mother

  Children, I come back today
  To tell you a story of the long dark way

  by Langston Hughes 51 lines, 16 comments
• Quatrain (With English Translation)

  Original Urdu
  Raat yunh dil mein teri khoee hui yaad aayee

  by Faiz Ahmed Faiz 16 lines, 7 comments
• Candy Man

  Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew
  Cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two

  by Roald Dahl 25 lines, 9 comments
• Happy Birthday Mr W B Yeats

  William Butler Yeats - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
  141 years ago on 13th June 1865 William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland. Yeats mad

  by Old Poetry 112 lines, 2 comments
• Trumpet Player

  The Negro
  With the trumpet at his lips

  by Langston Hughes 44 lines, 5 comments
• Jada

  u r the omega of my heart
  the foundation of my conception of love

  by Tupac Shakur 14 lines, 9 comments
• i like my body when it is with your

  i like my body when it is with your
  body.  It is so quite new a thing.

  by e e cummings 0 lines, 17 comments
• Dead Woman

  If suddenly you do not exist,
  if suddenly you no longer live,

  by Pablo Neruda 39 lines, 13 comments
• A Lower Eastside Poem

  Just once before I die
  I want to climb up on a

  by Miguel Pinero 66 lines, 5 comments
• "I wandered lonely as a cloud"

  I wandered lonely as a cloud
    That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

  by William Wordsworth 26 lines, 27 comments
• We Wear the Mask

  We wear the mask that grins and lies,
  It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-

  by Paul Laurence Dunbar 17 lines, 19 comments
• The Hero

  'Jack fell as he'd have wished,' the mother said,
  And folded up the letter that she'd read.

  by Siegfried Sassoon 19 lines, 14 comments
• A Brief Love Letter

  My darling, I have much to say
  Where o precious one shall I begin ?

  by Nizar Qabbani 24 lines, 10 comments
• Signior Dildo

  You ladies of merry England
  Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand,

  by Lord John Wilmot 113 lines, 8 comments
• Madhushala (The Tavern)

  Seeking wine, the drinker leaves home for the tavern.
  Perplexed, he asks, "Which path will take me there?"

  by Harivansh Rai Bachchan 155 lines, 1 comment
• When Ure Hero Falls

  when your hero falls from grace
  all fairy tales r uncovered

  by Tupac Shakur 16 lines, 14 comments
• Ode To Autumn

  Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
          Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

  by John Keats 37 lines, 10 comments
• The Sick Rose

  O Rose, thou art sick!
  The invisible worm

  by William Blake 8 lines, 13 comments
• I Loved You

  I loved you; even now I must confess,
  Some embers of my love their fire retain;

  by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 48 lines, 12 comments
• Ode To A Naked Beauty

  With chaste heart, and pure
  eyes

  by Pablo Neruda 67 lines, 12 comments
• Snow-Flakes. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Second)

  Out of the bosom of the Air
      Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 20 lines, 8 comments
• Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee?

  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

  by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 13 lines, 28 comments
• Dust Of Snow

  The way a crow
  Shook down on me

  by Robert Frost 7 lines, 12 comments
• Romance De La Luna, Luna

  La luna vino a la fragua
  con su polisón de nardos.

  by Federico Garcia Lorca 40 lines, 3 comments
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

  I know that I shall meet my fate
  Somewhere among the clouds above;

  by William Butler Yeats 15 lines, 16 comments
• The Song of Australia

  The centuries found me to nations unknown –
  My people have crowned me and made me a throne;

  by Henry Lawson 28 lines, 3 comments
• Flame-Heart

  So much have I forgotten in ten years,
  So much in ten brief years! I have forgot

  by Claude McKay 30 lines, 1 comment
• Five Senses

  Now my five senses
  gather into a meaning

  by Judith Wright 20 lines, 3 comments
• Bora Ring

  The song is gone; the dance
  is secret with the dancers in the earth,

  by Judith Wright 16 lines, 25 comments
• Ultima Thule: The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

  The tide rises, the tide falls,
  The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;

  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 17 lines, 10 comments
• Kitchenette Building

  We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
  Grayed in, and gray. "Dream" mate, a giddy sound, not strong

  by Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks 15 lines, 11 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, 20 comments
• Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

  What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
  I have forgotten, and what arms have lain

  by Edna St. Vincent Millay 13 lines, 11 comments
• I'm nobody! Who are you?

  I'm nobody! Who are you?
  Are you nobody, too?

  by Emily Dickinson 8 lines, 26 comments
• The Target

  I shot him, and it had to be
  One of us "Twas him or me.

  by Ivor Gurney 23 lines, 16 comments
• The Four Friends

  Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow,
  Leonard was a lion with a six foot tail,

  by A.A. Milne 23 lines, 13 comments
• Sea Fever

  I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
  And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,

  by John Masefield 13 lines, 17 comments
• To wake, To live

  How to wake up without hurt?
  Restart without horror?

  by Carlos Drummond de Andrade 21 lines, 8 comments
• Consummation Of Grief

  I even hear the mountains
  the way they laugh

  by Charles Bukowski 25 lines, 4 comments
• anyone lived in a pretty how town

  anyone lived in a pretty how town
  (with up so floating many bells down)

  by e e cummings 36 lines, 26 comments

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