All Poems
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Sonnet XXVIII: Reign In My Thoughts
© Samuel Daniel
Reign in my thoughts, fair hand, sweet eye, rare voice:
Possess me whole, my heart's triumvirate;
Tease
© David Herbert Lawrence
I will give you all my keys,
You shall be my ch?telaine,
You shall enter as you please,
As you please shall go again.
Celebrating King Wan
© Confucius
The royal Wan now rests on high,
Enshrined in brightness of the sky.
Conceit
© David Herbert Lawrence
Now we have to admit we can't know ourselves, we can only know about ourselves.
And I am not interested to know about myself any more,
I only entangle myself in the knowing.
Worm Either Way
© David Herbert Lawrence
If you live along with all the other people
and are just like them, and conform, and are nice
you're just a worm --
In The Forest
© Sarojini Naidu
HERE, O my heart, let us burn the dear dreams that are dead,
Here in this wood let us fashion a funeral pyre
Of fallen white petals and leaves that are mellow and red,
Here let us burn them in noon's flaming torches of fire.
Monologue of a Mother
© David Herbert Lawrence
This is the last of all, this is the last!
I must hold my hands, and turn my face to the fire,
I must watch my dead days fusing together in dross,
Shape after shape, and scene after scene from my past
Fusing to one dead mass in the sinking fire
Where the ash on the dying coals grows swiftly, like heavy moss.
When I Was Small
© Jens Baggesen
There was a time when I was very small
A mere two feet was all I measured then;
And, when I think of this, tears sweetly fall,
So of it I think time and time again.
Intimates
© David Herbert Lawrence
I handed her the mirror, and said:
Please address these questions to the proper person!
Please make all requests to head-quarters!
In all matters of emotional importance
please approach the supreme authority direct! -
The Nursing Sister
© Rudyard Kipling
Our sister sayeth such and such,
And we must bow to her behests.
Our sister toileth overmuch,
Our little maid that hath no breasts.
Birdcage Walk
© David Herbert Lawrence
When the wind blows her veil
And uncovers her laughter
I cease, I turn pale.
When the wind blows her veil
Some Advice To Those Who Will Serve Time In Prison
© Nazim Hikmet
If instead of being hanged by the neck
you're thrown inside
Virgin Youth
© David Herbert Lawrence
Now and again
All my body springs alive,
And the life that is polarised in my eyes,
That quivers between my eyes and mouth,
The Tree
© Jones Very
I love thee when thy swelling buds appear
And one by one their tender leaves unfold,
Brooding Grief
© David Herbert Lawrence
A yellow leaf from the darkness
Hops like a frog before me.
Why should I start and stand still?
King Solomon And The Queen Of Sheba
© Vachel Lindsay
[The mens leader rises as he sees the Queen unveiling
and approaching a position that gives her half of the stage.]
Blue
© David Herbert Lawrence
The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over
The edge of the blue, and the sun stands up to see us glide
Slowly into another day; slowly the rover
Vessel of darkness takes the rising tide.
Napoleon
© Victor Marie Hugo
Angel or demon! thou,whether of light
The minister, or darknessstill dost sway
This age of ours; thine eagle's soaring flight
Bears us, all breathless, after it away.
