Peace Poems - Poems For Peace

Peace poems from famous poets and best peace poems to feel good. Most beautiful peace poems ever written. Read all poems for peace.


The Peace Of Wild Things - Poem by Wendell Berry

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.


Comments about The Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

  • Rookie VLAshley (5/21/2020 12:46:00 PM)

    The imagery is beautiful, like, dude... I feel like we, as a species, can feel the pain of empathy far too strongly. A curse and a blessing. (Report) Reply

    0 person liked.
    		0 person did not like.
  • Rookie Elizabeth (5/18/2020 4:30:00 PM)

    The timing, now, especially...stirs me. Oh this man gets it. A stunning reminder. (Report) Reply

    1 person liked.
    		0 person did not like.
  • Rookie lili zamorano (4/21/2020 8:53:00 AM)

    I have come to this poem over and over when I am in despair. I helps me center my thoughts at how simple joy can come. (Report) Reply

    0 person liked.
    		1 person did not like.
  • Rookie Frances Winfield (3/29/2020 10:09:00 PM)

    How beautiful. As a fellow conservationist, These words touched my heart. (Report) Reply

    2 person liked.
    		2 person did not like.
  • Silver Star - 3,444 Points Sarah Shahzad (12/23/2019 5:26:00 AM)

    Wonderful, it is an amazing piece of poetry! keep sharing.. (Report) Reply

    3 person liked.
    		2 person did not like.
  • Gold Star - 221,891 Points Chinedu Dike (10/7/2019 6:31:00 PM)

    Beautiful rendition of words to utmost justice. A poignant work from a sober mind. (Report) Reply

    4 person liked.
    		2 person did not like.
  • Gold Star - 7,078 Points Bhagabat Prasad Hotta (9/17/2019 7:26:00 AM)

    Nice poem sir.so beautiful (Report) Reply

    4 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • Rookie Dave Chisholm (4/7/2019 11:32:00 PM)

    A beautiful poem! Who did the art-work next to the Rillito River in Tucson, AZ which acconmpanies this poem? (chisholm@email.arizona, edu) (Report) Reply

    5 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • Rookie A beautiful poem! (4/7/2019 11:30:00 PM)

    Who did the beautiful art-work next to the Rillito River in Tucson, AZ (near Campbell Ave.) which accompanies
    this poem?

    Dave Chisholm
    chisholm@email.arizonal.edu     (Report) Reply

    4 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • Rookie Oten Vivian (2/25/2019 2:57:00 PM)

    Add a comment.Beautiful (Report) Reply

    4 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
Read all 36 comments »
Peace Poems
  1. 1. The Peace Of Wild Things
    Wendell Berry
  2. 2. My Dream: A Vision Of Peace
    ToddMichael St. Pierre
  3. 3. 1914 I: Peace
    Rupert Brooke
  4. 4. Peace
    Patrick Kavanagh
  5. 5. Peace
    George Herbert
  6. 6. Peace Xviii
    Khalil Gibran
  7. 7. Let Peace Prevail In This World.......
    Ravi Sathasivam
  8. 8. In Salutation To The Eternal Peace
    Sarojini Naidu
  9. 9. Peace
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
  10. 10. ! An Angry Poem About Peace
    Michael Shepherd
  11. 11. Part In Peace: Is Day Before Us?
    Sarah Flower Adams
  12. 12. The Gardener Lxi: Peace, My Heart
    Rabindranath Tagore
  13. 13. Peace On Earth
    William Carlos Williams
  14. 14. Peace. A Study
    Charles Stuart Calverley
  15. 15. Peace
    Sara Teasdale
  16. 16. I Find No Peace
    Sir Thomas Wyatt
  17. 17. Promise Of Peace
    Robinson Jeffers
  18. 18. Rest In Peace
    Claude McKay
  19. 19. He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace
    William Butler Yeats
  20. 20. Peace
    Henry Vaughan
  21. 21. Our Lady Peace
    Mark Van Doren
  22. 22. A Tooth Upon Our Peace
    Emily Dickinson
  23. 23. O Sun Of Real Peace
    Walt Whitman
  24. 24. Peace
    William Butler Yeats
  25. 25. The Price Of Peace
    Henry Van Dyke
  26. 26. Monday Night May 11th 1846 / Domestic ..
    Anne Brontë
  27. 27. Peace
    Rupert Brooke
  28. 28. Joy And Peace In Believing
    John Newton
  29. 29. My Child Wafts Peace
    Yehuda Amichai
  30. 30. Peace On Earth
    Edwin Arlington Robinson
  31. 31. Peace, Peace, Peace
    Lovina Sylvia Chidi
  32. 32. Peace
    Henry Van Dyke
  33. 33. To My Brother Poet, Seeking Peace
    Erica Jong
  34. 34. I Many Times Thought Peace Had Come
    Emily Dickinson
  35. 35. Joy And Peace In Believing
    William Cowper
  36. 36. Peace
    Ellie Friedman
  37. 37. 09 Haiku - Peace Haiku
    john tiong chunghoo
  38. 38. Peace You Peace Us
    Kumarmani Mahakul
  39. 39. I. Peace
    Rupert Brooke
  40. 40. A Hand On Her Gown: The Peace
    Thampi KEE
  41. 41. Peace Or Poverty
    Sonali Shah
  42. 42. Peace, Blessed Peace
    Edward George Dyson
  43. 43. A Sense Of Peace
    Ernestine Northover
  44. 44. Ode To Peace
    Helen Maria Williams
  45. 45. Peace Restored
    James Shirley
  46. 46. The Rose Of Peace
    William Butler Yeats
  47. 47. A Peace Of Mind...
    Ravi Sathasivam
  48. 48. Peace Not Permanent
    Robert Herrick
  49. 49. Love, Joy, Peace And Presence
    Christian Eliab Ratnam
  50. 50. Peace Be With You
    C.J. Heck

New Peace Poems

  1. Review Of My Poem Something Look At-18, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty
  2. Serenity Is The Spirit In World Peace! T.., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  3. World Peace Is The Life In You! World Pe.., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  4. Think As The Lord! Think World Peace! Fe.., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  5. By World Peace Are You Strengthened! By .., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  6. Every Dimension, Every Realm, Every Stat.., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  7. World Peace Is The True Pacemaker And Or.., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  8. World Peace Is The Cross Of Life! World .., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  9. World Peace Is The Cross Of Life! World .., Joshua Aaron Guillory
  10. World Peace Is Everywhere! World Peace I.., Joshua Aaron Guillory
Click here to list all new poems »

All Poems

Peace Poems

  1. Peace

    Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave, Let me once know. I sought thee in a secret cave, And ask'd, if Peace were there, A hollow wind did seem to answer, No: Go seek elsewhere. I did; and going did a rainbow note: Surely, thought I, This is the lace of Peace's coat: I will search out the matter. But while I looked the clouds immediately Did break and scatter. Then went I to a garden and did spy A gallant flower, The crown-imperial: Sure, said I, Peace at the root must dwell. But when I digged, I saw a worm devour What showed so well. At length I met a rev'rend good old man; Whom when for Peace I did demand, he thus began: There was a Prince of old At Salem dwelt, who lived with good increase Of flock and fold. He sweetly lived; yet sweetness did not save His life from foes. But after death out of his grave There sprang twelve stalks of wheat; Which many wond'ring at, got some of those To plant and set. It prospered strangely, and did soon disperse Through all the earth: For they that taste it do rehearse That virtue lies therein; A secret virtue, bringing peace and mirth By flight of sin. Take of this grain, which in my garden grows, And grows for you; Make bread of it: and that repose And peace, which ev'ry where With so much earnestness you do pursue, Is only there.

  2. 1914 I: Peace

    Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping, Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary, Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move, And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary, And all the little emptiness of love! Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there, Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending, Naught broken save this body, lost but breath; Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

  3. Peace

    And sometimes I am sorry when the grass Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows And the cocksfoot leans across the rutted cart-pass That I am not the voice of country fellows Who now are standing by some headland talking Of turnips and potatoes or young corn Of turf banks stripped for victory. Here Peace is still hawking His coloured combs and scarves and beads of horn. Upon a headland by a whinny hedge A hare sits looking down a leaf-lapped furrow There's an old plough upside-down on a weedy ridge And someone is shouldering home a saddle-harrow. Out of that childhood country what fools climb To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time?

  4. My Dream: A Vision Of Peace

    Where the mountains touch the sky, Where poets DREAM, where eagles fly, A secret place above the crowd, Just beneath a silver-lined cloud. Lift your eyes to a snowy peak, And see the soon-to-be we seek. Whisper DREAMS and let them rise, To the mountains old and wise. Climbers climb, it's time to try, Where the mountains touch the sky. Take me there. Oh take me now, Someway, Someday, Somewhere, Somehow. Where the ocean meets the sky, Where mermaid dance, where seagulls fly, A place in DREAMS I know so well, The sea inside a single shell. Far across the living sea, A pale blue possibility, Beyond the castles made of sand, Tomorrow in a small child's hand. Only DREAMERS need apply, Where the ocean meets the sky. Take me there. Oh take me now, Someway, Someday, Somewhere, Somehow. A common ground for one and all, Behind the crystal waterfall, Where Peace flows like a mighty stream, Like Dr. King I have a DREAM. Imagine such a goal in sight, For red and yellow, black and white… New Delhi, Beijing, Kenya, Rome, Earth is the place that we call home. Baghdad, Belfast, Tel Aviv, One race HUMAN, we still believe, Come DREAM with me... Where the forests reach the sky, Wake to DREAMS, and don’t be shy. We’ll DREAM the world a thorn-less rose; We’ll plant then watch it as it grows. We’ll conquer hate with DREAMS of hope, We’ll DREAM one big kaleidoscope. Whisper now; let the DREAM begin, It's time to trust the truth within. This is where we seek and find… A place called PEACE for humankind. DREAM on DREAMERS, hopes are high, Where the forests reach the sky. Take me there. Oh take me now, Someway, Someday, Somewhere, Somehow. Now, listen close, the future calls... 'Build your bridges and tear down walls! ' For time has taught and so it seems, Realities are born of DREAMS! Whisper DREAMS and let them rise, To the mountains old and wise.

[Report Error]