Short Poems about Life
Auguries of Innocence To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. – William Blake (extract from Auguries …
Short poems - Short Poems
Welcome to short poems. A selection of famous, inspiring and spiritual poems by a range of poets including Blake, Dickinson, Keats, Rumi, Hafiz, Sri Chinmoy and others
Walt Whitman - Short Poems
Come, said my soul, Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants …
William Shakespeare - Short Poems
English poet and playwright – Shakespeare is widely considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets. Shakespeare’s poems consider …
Short poems about nature
The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the …
Short poems on Happiness
‘Twas Age imposed on poems Their gather-roses burden To warn against the danger That overtaken lovers From being overflooded With happiness should have it. And yet not know …
Poems on Death - Short Poems
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. – John Donne (2)
Poems about Joy - Short Poems
’T IS so much joy! ’T is so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so This side the victory! Life is but life, …
Maya Angelou Short Poems
Maya Angelou Short Poems Passing Time. Your skin like dawn Mine like musk. One paints the beginning of a certain end. The other, the end of a sure beginning. Maya Angelou. On the …
William Wordsworth - Short Poems
My Heart Leaps Up My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is …