Famous Life Poems

Classic Poems about Life

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A Prayer on Going Into My House
Votes: 17,  Rating: 4.18 , By William Butler Yeats
God grant a blessing on this tower and cottage
And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled,
No table or chair or stool not simple enough
For shepherd lads in Galilee; and grant
That I myself ..........
I HEAR America singing
Votes: 28,  Rating: 4.11 , By Walt Whitman
I HEAR America singing, the varied carols I hear;
Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong;
The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or ..........
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Music
Votes: 39,  Rating: 4.1 , By Bessie Rayner Parkes
Sweet melody amidst the moving spheres
Breaks forth, a solemn and entrancing sound,
A harmony whereof the earth's green hills
Give but the faintest echo; yet is there
A music everywhere, ..........
Song About Old Troll - Lord of The Rings
Votes: 30,  Rating: 4.1 , By J. R. R. Tolkien
Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
In a cave in the ..........
Fire And Ice
Votes: 125,  Rating: 4.09 , By Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of ..........
Aerialist
Votes: 2,  Rating: 4 , By Sylvia Plath
Each night, this adroit young lady
Lies among sheets
Shredded fine as snowflakes
Until dream takes her body
From bed to strict tryouts
In tightrope acrobatics.
Nightly she ..........
Circus in Three Rings
Votes: 8,  Rating: 3.88 , By Sylvia Plath
In the circus tent of a hurricane
designed by a drunken god
my extravagant heart blows up again
in a rampage of champagne-colored rain
and the fragments whir like a weather vane
while ..........
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A Farewell
Votes: 15,  Rating: 3.8 , By Lord Alfred Tennyson
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.

Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,
A rivulet then a ..........
Advice To A Son
Votes: 66,  Rating: 3.74 , By Ernest Hemingway
Never trust a white man,
Never kill a Jew,
Never sign a contract,
Never rent a pew.
Don't enlist in armies;
Nor marry many wives;
Never write for magazines;
Never scratch your ..........
Though All the Fates
Votes: 12,  Rating: 3.58 , By Henry David Thoreau
Though all the fates should prove unkind,
Leave not your native land behind.
The ship, becalmed, at length stands still;
The steed must rest beneath the hill;
But swiftly still our ..........
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