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poetry

- writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.

ALS International and its affiliates has for many years supported and devoted resources to poetry as it represents one of the most difficult forms of translation as well as one of the most interesting uses of language. Below is a short list of poems in the English language that we hope you will find both historically interesting and pleasing to read. In the future, we would like to expand this page to include other foreign language poems as well. Enjoy!

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A

A fool I was to sleep at noon
Daughter of Eve
by: Christina Rossetti

A little black thing among the snow
The Chimney Sweeper:
A Little Black Thing Among the Snow
by: William Blake

A little learning is a dangerous thing
An Essay on Criticisim
by: Alexader Pope

Accept, dear girl, this little token
A Valentine to My Wife
by: Eugene Field

All the world's a stage
All the world's a stage
by: William Shakespeare

Allons enfants de la Patrie
La Marseillaise
by: Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle

And in Life's noisiest hour
Love
by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As virtuous men pass mildly away
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
by: John Donne

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down
Old Ironsides
by: Oliver Wendell Holmes

B

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me
Beautiful Dreamer
by: Stephen Foster

Because I could not stop for Death
The Chariot
by: Emily Dickinson

Before my drift-wood fire I sit
Burning Drift Wood
by:John Greenleaf Whittier

Bid me to live, and I will live
To Anthea
by: Robert Herrick

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
by: Sir Walter Scott

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to
Mandalay
by: Rudyard Kipling

C

Come live with me and be my love
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
by: Christopher Marlowe


Courage he said, and pointed toward the land
The Lotos-Eaters
by: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

D

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Death
by: John Donne

Drink to me, onely with thine eyes
To Celia
by: Ben Johnson

E

Entreat me not to leave thee
Address of Ruth to Naomi
by: Ruth

F

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer
Farewell
by: George Gordon, Lord Byron

Fear death?- to feel the fog in my throat
Prospice
by: Robert Browning

Full many a glorious morning I have seen
Sonnet XXXIII
by: William Shakespeare

G

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may
To the Virgins
by: Robert herrick

Glory be to God for dappled things
Pied Beauty
by: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Part VI
by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Go and catch a falling star
Song
by: John Donne

H

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
by: W.B Yeats

Happy the man, whose wish and care
Solitude
by: Alexander Pope

Have but one God: thy knees were sore
The New Decalogue
by: Ambrose Bierce

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay
The Deacon's Masterpiece
by: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar
An Essay on Man
by: Alexader Pope

He jests at scars that never felt a wound
The Living Juliet
by: William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Part XLIII
by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I

I celebrate myself
Song of Myself
by: Walt Whitman

I leant upon a coppice gate
The Darkling Thrush
by: Thomas Hardy

I Like Canadians
I Like Canadians
by: Ernest Miller Hemingway

I Like Americans
I Like Americans
by: Ernest Miller Hemingway

I saw him once before
The Last Leaf

by: Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Part XXXV
by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In front of the sombre mountains
On the Balcony
by: D.H.Lawrence

I stood where Love in brimming armfuls bore

Sonnet XXIII, Love's Baubles
by: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan
by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is an ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part I
by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was many and many a year ago
Annabel Lee
by: Edgar Alan Poe

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
by: Gerard Manley Hopkins

I wandered lonely as a cloud
The Daffodils
by: William Wordsworth

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K

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L

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Sonnet CXVI: ''Let me not to the marriage of true minds
by: William Shakespear

Like as a huntsman after weary chase
Amoretti LXVII: Like As A Huntsman
by: Edmund Spenser

Five years have past; five summers
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
by: William Wordsworth

Listen my children and you shall hear
Paul Revere's Ride
by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let us go then, you and I
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
by: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Little Lamb, who made thee
The Lamb
by: William Blake


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M

My true-love hath my heart, and I have his
My True-Love Hath My Heart
by: Sir John Philip Sidney

My heart leaps up when I behold
The Rainbow
by: William Wordsworth

N

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
The New Colossus
by: Emma Lazarus

O

O Liberty, God-gifted
To The Bartholdi Statue
by: Ambrose Bierce


O, hurry, where by water, among the trees
The Ragged Wood
by W.B Yeats


O say, can you see by the dawn’s early light
The Star Spangled Banner
by: Francis Scott Key

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Paradise Lost, Book I
by: John Milton

On the idle hill of summer
On the Idle Hill of Summer
by: A.E. Housman

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
The Raven
by: Edgar Allan Poe

Only a man harrowing clods
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
by: Thomas Hardy

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
by: Walt Whitman

P

Piping down the valleys wild
Songs of Innocence

by: William Blake

Q

There are currently no first lines beginning with this letter.

R

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S

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Sonnet XVIII: ''Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?''
by: William Shakespeare

Shall I, wasting in despair
The Lover's Resolution
by: George Wither

She walks in beauty, like the night
She Walks in Beauty
by: Lord Byron, George Gordon

She was a phantom of delight
Perfect Woman
by: William Wordsworth

So, we'll go no more a-roving
We'll Go No More A-Roving
by: Lord Byron, George Gordon

Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade
To a Young Lady
by: William Cowper

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave
To Night
by: Percy Bysshe Shelley

T

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
by: Richard Lovelace

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Elegy written in a country churchyard
by: Thomas Gray

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall
My Last Duchess
by: Robert Browning

The blessed damozel lean'd out
The Blessed Damozel
by: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The everlasting universe of things
from Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Cham
by: Percy Bysshe Shelley

The rain and the wind, the wind and the rain
The Rain and the Wind
by: William Ernest Henley

The sea is calm to-night.
Dover Beach
by: Matthew Arnold

The Sun now rose upon the right
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part II
by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sun was shining on the sea
The Walrus and the Carpenter
by: Lewis Carroll

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees
The Highwayman
by: Alfred Noyes

The world is too much with us; late and soon
The World is too much with us
by: William Wordsworth

The tide rises, the tide falls
The tide rises, the tide falls
by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thou fair-haired angel of the evening
To the Evening Star
by: William Blake

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."
The Prophet
by: Kahlil Gibran

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
The House by the side of the road
by: Sam Walter Foss

There passed a weary time. Each throat
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part III
by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign
The Chambered Nautilus
by: Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness
Ode on a Grecian Urn
by: John Keats

Thou shalt no God but me adore
Decalogue
by: Ambrose Bierce

Thy country, Wilberforce, with just disdain
Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
by: William Cowper

'Tis time the heart should be unmoved
On This Day I Complete My 36th Year
by: Lord Byron, George Gordon

To be, or not to be: that is the question
To be or not to be
by: William Shakespeare

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
The Tyger
by: William Blake

U

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V

There are currently no first lines beginning with this letter.

W

When you are old and grey and full of sleep
When You Are Old
by: W.B Yeats

Wee sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie
To a Mouse
by: Robert Burns

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
by: William Shakespeare

When I consider how my light is spent
On his Blindness
by: John Milton

When Love with unconfined wings
To Anthea from Prison
by: Richard Lovelace

When we two parted
When we two parted
by: George Gordon, Lord Byron

Who is Silvia? What is she
Who is Silvia
by: William Shakespeare

Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Why so pale and wan
by: Sir John Suckling

With thee conversing, I forget all time
Eve to Adam
by: John Milton

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Y

You know we French stormed Ratisbon
An Incident of the French Camp
by: Robert Browning

Z

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