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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i love you without knowing how
by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how,
or when,
or from where.
I love you straightforwardly,
without comple
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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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