8 famous english poems that you ought to have read!
Poetry is directly linked to the emotions. It makes people relive the moments gracefully, each time it is read. Poets dive in the oceans of creativity and expression to weave the garland of poetry. Their expertise is beyond a common man’s imagination. They keep wandering about various perceptions to explore the depths of zeal. Here are 8 famous English poems that you ought to have read!
1. Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore
My fancies are fireflies, —
Specks of living light
twinkling in the dark.
The voice of wayside pansies,
that do not attract the careless glance,
murmurs in these desultory lines.
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/ewyi2fms/fireflies
2. Harvest Hymn by Sarojini Naidu
Mens Voices:
LORD of the lotus, lord of the harvest,
Bright and munificent lord of the morn!
Thine is the bounty that prospered our sowing,
Thine is the bounty that nurtured our corn.
We bring thee our songs and our garlands for tribute,
The gold of our fields and the gold of our fruit;
O giver of mellowing radiance, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Surya, with cymbal and flute.
Lord of the rainbow, lord of the harvest,
Great and beneficent lord of the main!
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/kgai3tip/harvest-hymn
3. Reason Says Love Says by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Reason says, “ I will beguile him with the tongue.”; Love says,
“Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul.”
The soul says to the heart, “Go, do not laugh at me and yourself.
What is there that is not his, that I may beguile him thereby?”
He is not sorrowful and anxious and seeking oblivion that I
may beguile him with wine and a heavy measure.
The arrow of his glance needs not a bow that I should beguile
the shaft of his gaze with a bow.
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/4ion5mrm/reason-says-love-says
4. The Moon Shines In My Body by Kabir Das
The moon shines in my body,
but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me,
and so is the sun.
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/eie7hwdl/the-moon-shines-in-my-body
5. All The World’s A stage by William Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/e2mpivbj/all-the-world-s-a-stage
6. This Was Not Our Destiny by Mirza Galib
This was not our destiny, that union with the beloved would take place.
If we had kept on living longer, then would have been kept waiting
If I lived on your promise, then know this that I knew it to be false
For would I not have died of happiness, if I had had trust [in it]?
From your delicacy I knew that the vow had been bound loosely
You could never have broken it, if it had been firm
Let someone ask my heart about your half-drawn arrow
Where would this anxiety/ pain have come from, if it had gone through the liver?
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/7f32cpf2/this-was-not-our-destiny
7. If You Forgot Me by Pablo Neruda
I want you to know one thing.
You know how this is: if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/p7ozpys6/if-you-forget-me
8. I Thought The Train by Emily Dickinson
I thought the Train would never come -
How slow the whistle sang -
Read more at https://storymirror.com/read/poem/english/xyzs2v7h/i-thought-the-train
