What is your favorite poem and who is it by?

Question

Here's mine!


Dreams


Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Answer 1

"When I say I'm a Christian"
I'm not sure who it is by, but it is a really good one. Basically saying, I KNOW I am far from perfect, but I am a work in progress.

Answer 2

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight by Dylan Thomas and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.

Answer 3

The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost

Answer 4

IF by Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling
If

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Answer 5

The book of uncommon prayer by:Katherine Mosby
one chapter :
deliver me to myself
that i may stop
fretting the hours in vain,
looking for whats lacking
always elsewhere and otherwise.
let befall me the peace
which drops like wind,
suddenly,between even the slightest
folds of a linnets wing,
between shadows and sky,the hush
like intervals of quiet
between questions,between the calls
of crickets,the sorrows
of one season and the next,
swift and sure and sharp as grace.

Answer 6

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

Natures first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower,
but only so an hour.
So leaf subsides to leaf,
so eden sank to grief.
Dawn goes down today,
Nothing gold can stay."

Answer 7

False Pride by KRS-One

Answer 8

i like shel silverstein's poems because they're always funny or have meaning to them and i don't have peticular favorite