Short Poems about Life
Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing that thy living touch is upon all my limbs. I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.
Short poems - 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.
William Shakespeare - Short Poems
William Shakespeare (1564-1616). 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 themes of love, beauty, death, decay and the inevitable passing of …
Short poems about nature
On the Grasshopper and Cricket. 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 Grasshopper’s–he takes the lead. In summer luxury,–he has never done.
Short poems on Happiness
Sri Chinmoy. True inner joy is self – created. It does not depend on outer circumstances. A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life. – Sri Chinmoy. The mind chases happiness. The heart creates happiness. The soul is happiness.
William Wordsworth - Short Poems
A slumber did my spirit seal. I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel. The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. – William Wordsworth.
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 Pulse of Morning. A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Short Poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson Short Poems. Give All To Love. Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse. ‘Tis a brave master, Let it have scope, Follow it utterly, Hope beyond hope; High and more high, It dives into noon, With wing unspent, Untold intent; But ’tis a god ...
John Keats - Short Poems
The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and analyzed in English literature. Selected Short Poems by John Keats
Robert Frost - Short Poems
Robert Frost. Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and ...