Articles about 'Poems about Life'
February 12th, 2013
Sometimes, life is grand because of that one perfect moment, like in the poem below…
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Jenny kiss’d Me By Leigh Hunt
Jenny kiss’d me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you...
December 17th, 2012
Wandrers Nachtlied is the title of two different poems written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The 2nd poem was written in 1780. This is the one we’re featuring here. It’s considered by many to be the most beautiful poem in the German language.
Here you can read the original poem and listen to...
October 5th, 2012
What is Success? is a poem written by Bessie A. Stanley. It’s a poem that explores what it means to live a full, fruitful, compassionate life. These are topics that are important to speak with children about. You can listen to the poem and read along below…
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What is Success?
He has achieved...
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July 27th, 2012
Here’s the poem To a Grandmother by Christopher Morley with an mp3 recording:
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To a Grandmother
At six o’clock in the evening,
The time for lullabies,
My son lay on my mother’s lap
With sleepy, sleepy eyes!
(O drowsy little manny boy,
With sleepy, sleepy eyes!)
I heard her sing, and...
June 20th, 2012
My son Calvin is graduating from High School this weekend, which made me think about the poem If by Rudyard Kipling. It’s a parent’s advice to their child about life. I think it’s a wise and fitting message for graduates.
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If—
by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you...
June 7th, 2012
Here’s a lovely poem to express appreciation for nature and trees in particular. It’s perfect for Earth Day or Arbor Day.
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Long Live the Trees
So long as the rivers flow,
So long as the mountains rise,
May the forests sing to the skies
And shelter the earth below. ...
June 1st, 2012
Be True is a poem by Scottish poet Horatius Bonar (1808 – 1889).
These are words to live by…
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Be True
Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another’s soul would’st reach! ...
April 30th, 2012
The poem May Day by American poet Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933) has lovely imagery. Though it seems to end on a melancholy note, you can think of it in light of appreciating the time on earth we have…
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May Day
A delicate fabric of bird song ...
April 25th, 2012
Here’s the poem Joys of Youth by English poet John Clare (1793 – 1864).
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Joys of Youth
How pleasing simplest recollections seem Now summer comes it warms me to look back In the sweet happiness of youths...
August 9th, 2011
Here’s a poem about a 6 week old baby…
Recording of the Poem Six Weeks Old
Six Weeks Old by Christopher Morley
He is so small, he does not know The summer sun, the winter snow; The spring that ebbs and comes again, All this is...
July 1st, 2011
I came across this poem recently and really liked it…
My Flower By Ira Titus
One night in May in a clear sky The moon was a daisy flower: And! put it in my coat, A bouquet...
May 17th, 2011
INFANT JOY
"I have no name;
I am but two days old."
What shall I call thee?
"I happy am,
Joy is my name."
Sweet joy befall thee!
Pretty joy!
Sweet joy, but two days old.
Sweet joy I call thee;
Thou dost smile,
I sing the while;
Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake (1757-1827)
Posted in celebration of the birth of Zia
February 28th, 2011
Jack Marvin wrote to me a little about reading Eugene Field’s poems back in the ’50’s and about “old age” in modern times…
Thank you for posting Field’s poems. I haven’t read them for years and they are delightful to rediscover. In 1952 as a high school senior, I read “Jest For Christmas” at...
January 7th, 2011
This poem will turn your mind inside-out! Maybe I felt that way because I was listening to this poem amid a bunch of Wallace Stevens’ other poems. They’re very unique.
Older kids and adults will enjoy The Snow Man more than younger kids. You might have to read the poem a couple of times to get...
November 13th, 2009
This is a short, four lined poem that encompasses a child’s life from birth till death. It seems sad, yet it’s really a wish for a happy life full of people who care for the child…
The Babe
On parent knees, a naked new-born child,
Weeping thou sat’st while all around thee smiled:
So live, that, sinking to...
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