Do you know a short and beautiful poem to share?

Question

Do you know a short and beautiful poem to share?

Answer 1

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Old Time is still a-flying

And this same flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow will be dying

by Robert Herrick

(that's all I can remember of it)

I think the lines are so true, and very relevant to people like me who are getting on a bit, although I think it was addressed to virgins.

Answer 2

This one is a little longer, but still kinda short. It always have had an impact on me. =)

Pablo Neruda - Sonnet XVII

I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz

or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:

I love you as certain dark things are loved,

secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries

hidden within itself the light of those flowers,

and thanks to your love, darkly in my body

lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,

I love you simply, without problems or pride:

I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,

so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,

so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.

Answer 3

I probably have the line spacing and punctuation wrong, but from memory the words are correct. It's a William Blake poem, and while not conventionally beautiful - or about a beautiful subject - it struck me very powerfully the first time I read it about 15 years ago. I love the intensity of the imagery. It's called The Sick Rose.

Oh Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy

And his dark secret love

Does thy heart destroy

Answer 4

ocean blue

my love only for you

rose red

i will love you till the end

Answer 5

Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf's a flower

But only so an hour

Then leaf subsides to leaf

So Eden sank to grief

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay

That is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.  I had to memorize it for English class last year, thats the only reason i knew it!!

Answer 6

on what subject???