Poem of the day
by Don Marquis
My dust in ruined Babylon
Is blown along the level plain,
And songs of mine at dawn have soared
Above the blue Sicilian main.
We are ourselves, and not ourselves . . .
For ever thwarting pride and will
Some forebear's passion leaps from death
...
Read complete poem
Popular Poets
- 1. Emily Dickinson(2404 poems)
- 2. William Wordsworth(1015 poems)
- 3. Robert Burns(973 poems)
- 4. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
- 5. Robert Service(831 poems)
- 6. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(710 poems)
- 7. Rudyard Kipling(690 poems)
- 8. William Shakespeare(667 poems)