Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
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 by Emily Dickinson“Long Years apart – can make noBreach a second cannot fill –The absence of the Witch does notInvalidate the spell –The embers of a..
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Red Brocade
 by Naomi Shihab Nye[Excerpt]“The Arabs used to say,When a stranger appears at your door,feed him for three daysbefore asking who he is,where he’s..
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On Friendship 
by Khalil Gibran[Excerpt]“And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship.     And he answered, saying:    Your friend is your needs answered.     He is..
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 Sybil 
by Julia Ward Howe[Excerpt]“Your head is wild with books, Sybil,     But your heart is good and kind—I feel a new contentment near you,     A..
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 My Friends 
by Ali Power[Excerpt] “why be evasivewhen you can listen to an audio bookabout a biologiston a mysterious expeditionto Area Xan area cut off from..
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 To All My Friends
 by HAUNTIE[Excerpt]“To all my friends who have been with me in weaknesswhen water falls rush down my two sidesTo all my friends who have felt me in..
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What is the greatest gift? 
by Mary Oliver[Excerpt]“What is the greatest gift?Could it be the world itself—the oceans, the meadowlark,the patience of the trees in the wind?Could..
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 In The Company Of Women 
by January Gill-O’Neil[Excerpt]“Make me laugh over coffee,make it a double, make it frothyso it seethes in our delight.Make my cup overflowwith your..
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Alone 
 by Maya Angelou[Excerpt]“Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is not stoneI came up with one..
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Conches on Christmas
 By Mike ChasarDiluvian, draggled and derelict posse, thisbarnacled pod so palesnext to everything we hear of red tides and pilot whalesthat a word..
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Advent Calendar
 By Gjertrud SchnackenbergBethlehem in Germany,Glitter on the sloping roofs,Breadcrumbs on the windowsills,Candles in the Christmas trees,Hearths..
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Christmas, 1970
 By Sandra M. CastilloWe assemble the silver tree,our translated lives,its luminous branches,numbered to fit into its body.place its metallic rootsto..
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The Burning Babe
 By Robert Southwell SJAs I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And..
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To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
 By Helen Maria WilliamsWhat crowding thoughts around me wake,What marvels in a Christmas-cake!Ah say, what strange enchantment dwellsEnclosed within..
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[little tree]
 By E. E. Cummingslittle treelittle silent Christmas treeyou are so littleyou are more like a flowerwho found you in the green forestand were you..
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Mistletoe
 By Walter de La MareSitting under the mistletoe(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),One last candle burning low,All the sleepy dancers gone,Just one candle..
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The Oxen
 By Thomas HardyChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in..
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A Christmas Carol
 By Christina RossettiIn the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow..
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Christmas Carol
 By Sara TeasdaleThe kings they came from out the south,   All dressed in ermine fine;They bore Him gold and chrysoprase,   And gifts of precious..
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Christmas Trees
 By Robert Frost(A Christmas Circular Letter)The city had withdrawn into itselfAnd left at last the country to the country;When between whirls of..
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Christ’s Nativity
 By Henry VaughanAwake, glad heart! get up and sing!It is the birth-day of thy King.Awake! awake!The Sun doth shakeLight from his locks, and all the..
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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
 By John MiltonThis is the month, and this the happy morn,      Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King,Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother..
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Good King Wenceslas
 By John Mason NealeGood King Wenceslas look’d out,    On the Feast of Stephen;When the snow lay round about,    Deep, and crisp, and even:Brightly..
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The Three Kings
 By Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThree Kings came riding from far away,Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;Three Wise Men out of the East were they,And..
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 106
 By Alfred, Lord TennysonRing out, wild bells, to the wild sky,   The flying cloud, the frosty light:   The year is dying in the night;Ring out, wild..
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