Beautiful poetry and verse to inspire your soul
Memory
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain Because the mount...
W. B. Yeats
Ah, Sunflower
Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden cli...
William Blake
Indifference
I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,-- "I'll hear his step and know his step whe...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
In a Cuban Garden
Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire, (Love me, my lover, life will not stay) The bright poinsettia sha...
Sara Teasdale
The Echoing Green
The sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring; The skylar...
Recuerdo
We were very tired, we were very merry-- We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was b...
Stars
Alone in the night On a dark hill With pines around me Spicy and still, And a heaven full of star...
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— ...
Emily Dickinson
L’Envoi
There’s a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield And the ricks stand gray to the...
Rudyard Kipling
England, My England
What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? Wi...
William Ernest Henley
Romance
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. ...
Robert Louis Stevenson
Chorus from ‘Atalanta’
When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills th...
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Mixed colors. Clear tubes. One satisfying finish.
A tiny grid. Four numbers. Your daily little win.
Follow the turns. Find your way to the glowing exit.
