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English Poems

Broken Love

William Blake

My Spectre around me night and dayLike a wild beast guards my way;My Emanation far withinWeeps incessantly for my sin. ‘A fathomless and boundless deep,There we wander, there we weep;On the hungry craving windMy Spect…

By the Seaside

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth The sun is couched, the sea-fowl gone to rest,And the wild storm hath somewhere found a nest;Air slumbers–wave with wave no longer strives,Only a heaving of the deep survives,A tell-tale motion! soo…

City Of Ships

Walt Whitman

CITY of ships!(O the black ships! O the fierce ships!O the beautiful, sharp-bow’d steam-ships and sail-ships!)City of the world! (for all races are here;All the lands of the earth make contributions hereCity of the se…

Clown in the Moon

Dylan Thomas

My tears are like the quiet driftOf petals from some magic rose;And all my grief flows from the riftOf unremembered skies and snows. I think, that if I touched the earth,It would crumble;It is so sad and beautiful,So …

Curtain

Charles Bukowski

the final curtain on one of the longest runningmusicals ever, some people claim to haveseen it over one hundred times.I saw it on the tv news, that final curtain:flowers, cheers, tears, a thunderousaccolade.I have not…

Daddy

Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not doAny more, black shoeIn which I have lived like a footFor thirty years, poor and white,Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you.You died before I had time—Marble-heav…