Welcome to Poetry Verse
The poetry website where you'll find the most beautiful poems written by the best poets from all around the world.
Poems about love, poems about life... and poems about everything else.
Also, you can find short stories collected from all corners of the world, by many traditions, cultures, and religions.
Stories to inspire, stories to motivate, stories to make you think.
Most Popular Poems
A Servant To Servants
by Robert Frost
I didn’t make you know how glad I was
To have you come and camp here on our land.
I promised myself to get down some day
And see the way you lived, but I don’t know!
With a houseful of hungry men to feed
I guess you’d find…. It seems to me
I can’t express my feelings any more
Than I can raise my voice or want to lift
My hand (oh, I can lift it when I have to).
Did ever you feel so? I hope you never.
It’s got so I don’t even know for sure
Whether I
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In The Height Of Fashion
by Henry Lawson
So at last a toll they’ll levy
For the passing fool who sings
Take the harp grown dull and heavy
(With the dried blood on the strings)
Let us sing, and sing right gaily,
For the wreath is on our brow
Are you hearin’, Victor Daley?
We are fashionable now!
Once the greatest earl could flout us,
And the meanest scribe could sneer
Nought too bad to say about us,
Nought too hard for us to hear.
Slaves to journal-owning Neroes,
And we died no matter how
We’re sweet singers now and hero
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don't go back to sleep
by Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
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