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O, my Luve's like a melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair as thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sonnet 29]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [William Shakespeare]( When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [White Flock]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Anna Akhmatova]( Copyright Anna Akhmatova Copyright English translation by Ilya Shambat (ilya_shambat@yahoo.com) Origin: * I * We thought we were beggars, we thought we had nothing at all But then when we started to... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Raven]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Edgar Allan Poe]( ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,¡ª While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [When You are Old]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [William Butler Yeats]( WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [If]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Rudyard Kipling]( If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Because I could not stop for Death]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Emily Dickinson]( Because I could not stop for Death-- He kindly stopped for me-- The Carriage held but just Ourselves-- And Immortality. We slowly drove--He knew no haste And I had put... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Road Not Taken]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Robert Frost]( TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [She Walks in Beauty]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [George (Lord) Byron](lord)_byron) She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Daughter of Eve]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Christina Rossetti]( A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dickinson Poems by Number]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Emily Dickinson]( 14 One Sister have I in our house, And one, a hedge away. There's only one recorded, But both belong to me. One came the road that I came— And wore my last year's gown— The other,... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Tables Turned]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [William Wordsworth]( An Evening Scene on the Same Subject Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double: Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks; Why all this toil and trouble? The... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [i carry your heart with me]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings](e_e)_cummings) i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [How Do I Love Thee?]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]( How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Annabel Lee]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Edgar Allan Poe]( It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sonnet 71]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [William Shakespeare]( No longer mourn for me when I am dead Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The City In the Sea]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Edgar Allan Poe]( Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [O Captain! My Captain!](_my_captain!_198) [Create an image from this poem]( by [Walt Whitman]( O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the... [Read More](_my_captain!_198) --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Hourglass]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Ben Jonson]( Consider this small dust here running in the glass, By atoms moved; Could you believe that this the body was Of one that loved? And in his mistress' flame, playing like a fly, Turned... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inaugural Poem]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Maya Angelou]( A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [for a rainy day]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [D A Levy]( kisses we tried to save pressed in books like flowers from a sun warmed day only years later to open yellowing pages to find those same kisses - wilted and dry.... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Tyger]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [William Blake]( Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Who will cry for the little boy?]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Antwone Fisher]( who will cry for the little boy? Lost and all alone. Who will cry for the little boy? Abandoned without his own? Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep. Who will... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Death Be Not Proud]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [John Donne]( Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cradle Song]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [William Blake]( SLEEP sleep beauty bright Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep Sweet babe in thy face Soft desires I can trace ... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Frost at Midnight]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]( The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud---and hark, again! loud as before. The inmates of my cottage, all at rest, Have left me to that solitude,... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mending Wall]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Robert Frost]( Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters... [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tears Idle Tears]( [Create an image from this poem]( by [Alfred Lord Tennyson]( Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy... [Read More]( PoetrySoup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ email: poetrysoup@poetrysoup.com web: [www.poetrysoup.com]( This email was sent to , by poetrysoup@poetrysoup.com PoetrySoup [Unsubscribe]( [Updated link]