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 of Innocence) ‘The Road Not Taken’ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I […]
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
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 Grasshopper’s–he takes the lead In summer luxury,–he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
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 resuming, (Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas’d smile I …
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 themes of love, beauty, death, decay and the inevitable passing of time.
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 they have it. But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much ...
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, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! And if, […]
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 father of the Man; And I could […]
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 ...
Poems - Short Poems
Short Poems About: Adversity Aging America Angels Beauty Birds Change Comfort after death Courage Death Deception Destiny Dying Depression Dreams Dying Encouraging Faith Fame Fate Fear Flowers Forgiveness Friendship Funerals God Grace Gratitude Grief Happiness Hate Heartbreak Heaven Hope Humility Identity Impossibility Innocence Inner Peace Inspirational …