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1. The New Poetry Handbook - written by Mark Strand
Read 48895 times on Poetry Connection.

1    If a man understands a poem,
     he shall have troubles.

2    If a man lives with a poem,
     he shall die lonely.

3    If a man lives with two poems,
     he shall be unfaithful to one.

4    If a man conceives of a poem,
     he shall... (Read full poem)

My dear old father,
who always loved me the same;
my dear old father I lament
who died the day before yesterday, just before dawn.

Jesus Christ, it is my daily effort
to observe the precepts
of Thy most holy church in all my acts,
in all words, in... (Read full poem)

3. Poem: To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems. Published in 1881. Read 86568 times on Poetry Connection.

Poem: To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems


I can write no stately proem
As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
I would dare to say.

For if of these fallen petals
One to you seem fair,
Love will waft it till it settles
On your... (Read full poem)

A poem—
is just one more
scrap of paper
that has sailed off the table
in a bottle
with a cry for help.(Read full poem)

5. 234. A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.. Published in 1788. Read 1326 times on Poetry Connection.

FATE gave the word, the arrow sped,
  And pierc’d my darling’s heart;
And with him all the joys are fled
  Life can to me impart.
 

By cruel hands the sapling drops,
  In dust dishonour’d laid;
So fell the pride of all my hopes,
  My... (Read full poem)

YE learned sisters which haue oftentimes
beene to me ayding, others to adorne:
Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes,
That euen the greatest did not greatly scorne
To heare theyr names sung in your simply layes,
But ioyed in theyr... (Read full poem)

7. On The Margins Of A Poem - written by Jiri Mordecai Langer
From Anthology of Jewish Poetry. Read 1171 times on Poetry Connection.

The poem
that I chose for you
is simple,
as are all my singing poems.

It has the trace of a veil,
a little balsam,
and a taste of the honey
of lies.

There is also
the coming end of summer
when heat scorches the meadow
and the quick waters
of the... (Read full poem)

Religions are poems. They concert
our daylight and dreaming mind, our
emotions, instinct, breath and native gesture

into the only whole thinking: poetry.
Nothing's said till it's dreamed out in words
and nothing's true that figures in words... (Read full poem)

9. Saddest Poem - written by Pablo Neruda
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. 

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance." 

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings. 

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her,... (Read full poem)

Good people all, with one accord
Lament for Madam Blaize,
Who never wanted a good word,— 
From those who spoke her praise.

The needy seldom passed her door,
And always found her kind;
She freely lent to all the poor,— 
Who left a pledge... (Read full poem)

11. Poem: With A Copy Of 'A House Of Pomegranates' - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems. Published in 1881. Read 13811 times on Poetry Connection.

Poem: With A Copy Of 'A House Of Pomegranates'



Go, little book,
To him who, on a lute with horns of pearl,
Sang of the white feet of the Golden Girl:
And bid him look
Into thy pages: it may hap that he
May find that golden maidens dance... (Read full poem)

Poem: Tristitiae

O well for him who lives at ease
With garnered gold in wide domain,
Nor heeds the splashing of the rain,
The crashing down of forest trees.

O well for him who ne'er hath known
The travail of the hungry years,
A father... (Read full poem)

13. Inspiration - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover. Read 3617 times on Poetry Connection.

How often have I started out
With no thought in my noodle,
And wandered here and there about,
Where fancy bade me toddle;
Till feeling faunlike in my glee
I've voiced some gay distiches,
Returning joyfully to tea,
A poem in my britches.

A-squatting... (Read full poem)

Poem: Les Silhouettes

The sea is flecked with bars of grey,
The dull dead wind is out of tune,
And like a withered leaf the moon
Is blown across the stormy bay.

Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Lies the black boat: a sailor boy
Clambers... (Read full poem)

15. The Final Poem - written by Andree Chedid
Read 1389 times on Poetry Connection.

A forge burns in my heart.
I am redder than dawn,
Deeper than seaweed,
More distant than gulls,
More hollow than wells.
But I only give birth 
To seeds and to shells.

My tongue becomes tangled in words:
I no longer speak white,
Nor utter... (Read full poem)

Poem: My Voice



Within this restless, hurried, modern world
We took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,
And now the white sails of our ship are furled,
And spent the lading of our argosy.

Wherefore my cheeks before their time are... (Read full poem)

17. Poem: Impression - Le Reveillon - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems. Published in 1881. Read 2823 times on Poetry Connection.

Poem: Impression - Le Reveillon



The sky is laced with fitful red,
The circling mists and shadows flee,
The dawn is rising from the sea,
Like a white lady from her bed.

And jagged brazen arrows fall
Athwart the feathers of the night,
And... (Read full poem)

HONEST 1 Will to Heaven’s away
  And mony shall lament him;
His fau’ts they a’ in Latin lay,
  In English nane e’er kent them.


 Note 1. Of the Edinburgh High School. [back](Read full poem)

19. Poem: Sonnet To Liberty - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems. Published in 1881. Read 9204 times on Poetry Connection.

Poem: Sonnet To Liberty

Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes
See nothing save their own unlovely woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -
But that the roar of thy Democracies,
Thy reigns of Terror, thy great... (Read full poem)

Poem: Theoretikos



This mighty empire hath but feet of clay:
Of all its ancient chivalry and might
Our little island is forsaken quite:
Some enemy hath stolen its crown of bay,
And from its hills that voice hath passed away
Which spake of... (Read full poem)

21. Poem: Chanson - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems. Published in 1881. Read 1908 times on Poetry Connection.

Poem: Chanson

A ring of gold and a milk-white dove
Are goodly gifts for thee,
And a hempen rope for your own love
To hang upon a tree.

For you a House of Ivory,
(Roses are white in the rose-bower)!
A narrow bed for me to lie,
(White, O... (Read full poem)

My poem may be yours indeed
In melody and tone,
If in its rhythm you can read
A music of your own;
If in its pale woof you can weave
Your lovelier design,
'Twill make my lyric, I believe,
        More yours than mine.

I'm but a prompter at the... (Read full poem)

23. Poem: La Fuite De La Lune - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems. Published in 1881. Read 1676 times on Poetry Connection.

Poem: La Fuite De La Lune



To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.

Save for a cry that echoes shrill
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A... (Read full poem)

Poem: The True Knowledge



Thou knowest all; I seek in vain
What lands to till or sow with seed -
The land is black with briar and weed,
Nor cares for falling tears or rain.

Thou knowest all; I sit and wait
With blinded eyes and hands that... (Read full poem)

25. A Lament - written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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O World! O Life! O Time!
On whose last steps I climb,
Trembling at that where I had stood before;
When will return the glory of your prime?
No more -Oh, never more!

Out of the day and night
A joy has taken flight:
Fresh spring, and summer, and... (Read full poem)