Category Poems

Hush Little Baby Don’t Say a Word – By Mother Goose

Hush Little Baby Don't Say a Word – By Mother Goose

Hush little baby, don’t say a word,Close your eyes now, feel love unheard,Papa’s here with a gentle song,Keeping you safe all night long. Softly the stars begin to shine,Hush little baby, don’t say a word,Dreams will carry you through time.…

My Shadow By Robert Louis Stevenson

My Shadow By Robert Louis Stevenson

My Shadow walks with me in light,Soft on the road, quiet and near,A silent friend I never chose. It stretches tall in the evening sun,Then shrinks away at my feet,Like a secret it won’t explain. Sometimes it runs ahead of…

Buckdancer’s Choice Summary By James L. Dickey

Buckdancer’s Choice Summary By James L. Dickey

In the quiet room she lay,Breath thin as breaking glass,Yet music lived inside her. She whistled through the pain,Soft notes rising and falling,Like light through a cracked door. Buckdancer’ Choice echoed gently,Turning sorrow into rhythm,Making the air tremble. I stood…

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Complete Lyrics

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Complete Lyrics

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little StarYou glow in the silent nightA tiny spark of endless lightSoft above my waiting heart How I wonder what you areUp above the world so highSo far from fear and scars Like a diamond in the skyYou…

A Poison Tree Summary by William Blake

A Poison Tree Summary by William Blake

In A Poison Tree, anger begins like a spark.A small flame inside the heart.Spoken truth makes it fade away.Silence makes it dark and deep. I told my friend my hidden pain.The storm passed quickly and gently.Peace returned like morning light.…

A New National Anthem By Ada Limón

A New National Anthem By Ada Limón

In “A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón, I hear a softer cry.Not rockets in the sky,but a trembling human voice. “A New National Anthem” is not about war,it is about breath and belonging,about hands reaching in the dark. No…

Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats

Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats

Down by quiet paths of memoryLove once stood close to meYouth breathed without fear Down By The Salley GardensSoft feet touched the earthTime felt gentle and slow She spoke with a calm heartLove should grow like leavesPatient, natural, free But…

Lady Lazarus Summary by Sylvia Plath

Lady Lazarus Summary by Sylvia Plath

I have died before,and still I stand again.Ash on my skin,fire in my breath. They watched me fall,counting my broken bones,waiting for silence. But silence never kept me,the grave could not hold me,I returned with open eyes. Lady Lazarus rises…

A Noiseless Patient Spider Summary by Walt Whitman

A Noiseless Patient Spider Summary by Walt Whitman

A small spider stands alone,Silent on the edge of the world,Patient in the empty air. It throws thin threads of hope,Into the vast and vacant space,Waiting for something to hold. Filament after filament it releases,Never tired, never afraid,Trusting the unseen…

Fog Summary by Carl Sandburg

Fog Summary by Carl Sandburg

The gray veil walks in quietlylike a soft-footed cat It watches the harbor breathethe city holding its lightswaiting without a sound The haze rests for a momentcalm on the edge of timeseeing without judging The mist slips awayleaving silence behindteaching…

Crossing the Bar Summary by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Crossing the Bar Summary by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The sun leans low on a quiet seaA final light calls softly homeMy heart listens without fear The tide moves slow, without a soundNo angry waves, no restless foamLife loosens its gentle holdAnd lets me drift beyond the shore This…

Mutability By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mutability By Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are clouds before the midnight moon,We shine, we shake, we drift too fast,A moment bright, then gone at last. Like broken lyres in restless air,Our strings reply to every storm,No single sound is ever warm. A dream can poison…