Wish Poems
Dreamers
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land,
Drawing no dividend from time's... more
Poet: Siegfried Sassoon by: Siegfried Sassoon | rating:  June
Last June I saw your face three times;
Three times I touched your hand;
Now, as before,... more
Poet: Amy Levy by: Amy Levy | rating: Going Blind
She sat just like the others at the table.
But on second glance, she seemed to hold her... more
Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke by: Rainer Maria Rilke | rating: My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell
I hold my honey and I store my bread
In little jars and cabinets of my will.
I label... more
Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks by: Gwendolyn Brooks | rating: Ashes
The fireplace
was eager
to put a fullstop,
in the sentence
where the road
of my... more
Poet: Dimitris P. Kraniotis by: Dimitris P. Kraniotis | rating: Hope
Hope was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would... more
Poet: Emily Bronte by: Emily Bronte | rating: The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not... more
Poet: Jack Gilbert by: Jack Gilbert | rating: Danse Russe
If when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a... more
Poet: William Carlos Williams by: William Carlos Williams | rating: Half An Hour
I never had you, nor will I ever have you
I suppose. A few words, an approach
as in the... more
Poet: Constantine P. Cavafy by: Constantine P. Cavafy | rating: After Parting
Oh, I have sown my love so wide
That he will find it everywhere;
It will awake him in... more
Poet: Sara Teasdale by: Sara Teasdale | rating:
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