Top 500 Poems

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# Title Poet
476. First Lesson
Lie back daughter, let your head
be tipped back in the cup of my hand.
 Philip Booth poet by Philip Booth
on 1/1/2000
477. He is more than a hero
He is more than a hero
he is a god in my eyes--
Sappho poet by Sappho
on 1/1/2000
478. Ash Wednesday
I
Because I do not hope to turn again
 Thomas Stearns Eliot poet by Thomas Stearns Eliot
on 1/1/2000
479. Defence of Fort McHenry (Stars and Stripes Forever)
O! say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
 Francis Scott Key poet by Francis Scott Key
on 1/1/2000
480. She Walks In Beauty
She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
 George Gordon Lord Byron poet by George Gordon Lord Byron
on 1/1/2000
481. What a mother should be
A mother is the one who loves you
A mother puts no drug above you
 carlisa smith poet by carlisa smith
on 1/1/2000
482. The Quiet World
In an effort to get people to look
into each other's eyes more,
Jeffrey McDaniel poet by Jeffrey McDaniel
on 1/1/2000
483. Jenny Kissed Me
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in;
 James Henry Leigh Hunt poet by James Henry Leigh Hunt
on 1/1/2000
484. A True Friend
A true friend
A true friend is the one who picks you up when you fall
 Ashley Reese poet by Ashley Reese
on 1/1/2000
485. Revenge
Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreathed hair,
And gaze upon her smile;
Letitia Elizabeth Landon poet by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
on 1/1/2000
486. A Loom of Years
In the light of the silent stars that shine on the struggling sea,
In the weary cry of the wind and the whisper of flower and tree,
Alfred Noyes poet by Alfred Noyes
on 1/1/2000
487. Innocence
Innocence stolen without my permission
Innocence gone without my submission
 Mandi Ducroq poet by Mandi Ducroq
on 1/1/2000
488. White Apples
when my father had been dead a week
I woke
 Donald Hall poet by Donald Hall
on 1/1/2000
489. Wait
Wait, for now.
Distrust everything, if you have to.
 Galway Kinnell poet by Galway Kinnell
on 1/1/2000
490. Vitaï Lampada
There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night --
Ten to make and the match to win --
Sir Henry Newbolt poet by Sir Henry Newbolt
on 1/1/2000
491. Poem
And if it snowed and snow covered the drive
he took a spade and tossed it to one side.
 Simon Armitage poet by Simon Armitage
on 1/1/2000
492. A True Mother's Love
A mother's love is consistent
and patient, it will never fade.
Patarica D. Nunn poet by Patarica D. Nunn
on 1/1/2000
493. Love, Love, Love, Love, Love Without A Doubt
How do you write a poem
about Love?
David Taylor poet by David Taylor
on 1/1/2000
494. 'DEPRESSION Makes me.......'
Depression makes me feel pain
Depression makes me stupid
 Annie Juliet poet by Annie Juliet
on 1/1/2000
495. A Ballad of Gentleness
The firste stock-father of gentleness,
What man desireth gentle for to be,
 Geoffrey Chaucer poet by Geoffrey Chaucer
on 1/1/2000
496. Sonnet 54
Of this worlds theatre in which we stay,
My love like the spectator ydly sits
 Edmund Spenser poet by Edmund Spenser
on 1/1/2000
497. Freedom of Love
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti)
My wife with the hair of a wood fire
 Andre Breton poet by Andre Breton
on 1/1/2000
498. Making A Fist
We forget that we are all dead men conversing wtih dead men.
—Jorge Luis Borges
Naomi Shihab Nye poet by Naomi Shihab Nye
on 1/1/2000
499. Hurt Hawks
I
The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
 Robinson Jeffers poet by Robinson Jeffers
on 1/1/2000
500. Did I Not Say To You
Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this
mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?”
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi poet by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
on 1/1/2000
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