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
J
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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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