TEEN POEMS

My Dream

So many times I thought about yesterday
A day that I was innocent in every way
When I was just a little girl who was playing all day
And just cried when someone ruined my day.
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Ma. Cristina Colima

Tell Me

Many years ago I was living with depression
And all I wanted was just to be alone
But now I found myself smiling with no reason
Funny that sometimes you're in my imagination
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Ma. Cristina Colima

Seasons Of Life

Gazing at the breezy night
Empty or lack of immense sunlight
And the onset of Winters shined
Though reflecting warmth of mankind
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Kritika Prasad

Teen

Being a teen is hard
You cry alot
You smile at things that ain't
But the things that seem to be real
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Abifarin Victoria

Venus And Adonis

Even as the sun with purple-coloured face
Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn,
Rose-cheeked Adonis hied him to the chase;
Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn.
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William Shakespeare

The Ballad Of Ahmed Shah

This is the ballad of Ahmed Shah
Dealer in tats in the Sudder Bazar,
By the gate that leads to the Gold Minar
How he was done by a youth from Morar.
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Rudyard Kipling

Old Pete Parraday

Old Pete Paraday, his mind works very slow;
But, when it fastens on a thoughts, he will not let it go.
He measures it and mumbles it until an answer comes,
Just as he mumbles bits and scraps between his toothless gums.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Betrothed

"You must choose between me and your cigar."
-- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885.


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Rudyard Kipling

The Scholar-gipsy

Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill;
Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes!
No longer leave thy wistful flock unfed,
Nor let thy bawling fellows rack their throats,
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Matthew Arnold

Adventurers

This morning I got up before the sun
Had seized the hill,
And scrambled heart-hot, noisy, past each one
In sleep laid still.
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Lesbia Harford

Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - Part 03

XXXI
The villain flies, he, full of rage and ire,
Pursues, she stood and wondered on them both,
But yet to follow them showed no desire,
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Torquato Tasso

For The Defence

'This Cen-TEEN-ary,' sez 'e
Sez I, 'You'll pardon me.'
(Perlite, like that, first off, and 'arf in laughter).
'You'll pardon me, I'm sure,'
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Tyneside Widow

There's mony a man loves land and life,
Loves life and land and fee;
And mony a man loves fair women,
But never a man loves me, my love,
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Scholar Gypsy

Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill;
Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes!
No longer leave thy wistful flock unfed,
Nor let thy bawling fellows rack their throats,
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Matthew Arnold

Laus Veneris

Asleep or waking is it? for her neck,
Kissed over close, wears yet a purple speck
Wherein the pained blood falters and goes out;
Soft, and stung softly-fairer for a fleck.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

To Myrtilla

Twelve fleeting years ago my Myrt,
(Ehu fugaces! maybe more)
I wrote of the directoire skirt
You wore.
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Franklin Pierce Adams

The Scholar-gypsy

Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill;
Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes!
No longer leave thy wistful flock unfed,
Nor let thy bawling fellows rack their throats,
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Matthew Arnold

The Cuckoo And The Nightingale (from Chaucer)

I

The God of Love "ah, benedicite!"
How mighty and how great a Lord is he!
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William Wordsworth

Tristram

Tristram

Is she not come? The messenger was sure.
Prop me upon the pillows once again
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Matthew Arnold

The Weary Wedding

O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep,
One with another?
For woe to wake and for will to sleep,
Mother, my mother.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Ballad Of Dead Ladies

From the French of François Villon

Tell me now in what hidden way is
Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Hunting Song

Tek a cool night, good an' cleah,
Skiff o' snow upon de groun';
Jes' 'bout fall-time o' de yeah
W'en de leaves is dry an brown;
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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Rondeaux Of The Galleries

Camelot

In Camelot how grey and green
The Damsels dwell, how sad their teen,
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Andrew Lang

Imitation Of Spenser

Now Morning from her orient chamber came,
And her first footsteps touch'd a verdant hill;
Crowning its lawny crest with amber flame,
Silv'ring the untainted gushes of its rill;
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John Keats

Planh For The Young English King

If all the grief and woe and bitterness,
All dolour, ill and every evil chance
That ever came upon this grieving world
Were set together they would seem but light
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Ezra Pound

Cleanness

Clannesse who so kyndly cowþe comende
& rekken vp alle þe resounz þat ho by ri3t askez,
Fayre formez my3t he fynde in for[þ]ering his speche
& in þe contrare kark & combraunce huge.
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Anonymous Americas

Nanny To Bessy

the main?
Dear, dearâ??I've been thrice broken-hearted,
And thriceâ??but, ah, let me refrain.â??

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Joseph Skipsey

La Priere De Nostre Dame

A.

Almighty and all-merciable Queen,
To whom all this world fleeth for succour,
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Geoffrey Chaucer

Adieux à? Marie Stuart

I.

QUEEN, for whose house my fathers fought,
With hopes that rose and fell,
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Old Town Types No. 16 - Mr Tank

'Twice one are two; twice two are four.'
I can still hear it floating thro' the old school door:
Those childish voices falling, rising in rhythmic chant,
In a room where heat is prevalent and ventilation scant.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water

MY lord, I know your noble ear
Woe ne'er assails in vain;
Embolden'd thus, I beg you'll hear
Your humble slave complain,
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Robert Burns

Lion & Honeycomb

He didn't want to do it with skill,
He'd had enough of skill. If he never saw
Another villanelle, it would be too soon;
And the same went for sonnets. If it had been
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Howard Nemerov

Ballades Iv - Of Life

SAY, fair maids, maying
In gardens green,
In deep dells straying,
What end hath been
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Andrew Lang

The Dame Of Athelhall

I

"Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said,
   "In one brief hour?
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Thomas Hardy

Tristram And Iseult

I
TRISTRAM

Tristram. Is she not come? The messenger was sureâ??
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Matthew Arnold

The Host, He Says That All Is Well

He didn't want to do it with skill,
He'd had enough of skill. If he never saw
Another villanelle, it would be too soon;
And the same went for sonnets. If it had been
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Howard Nemerov

The Earth, Late Chok'd With Showers

The earth, late chok'd with showers,
Is now array'd in green,
Her bosom springs with flowers,
The air dissolves her teen;
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Thomas Lodge

Girl Africa

I pledge to Africa my continent
A land flowing with milk and honey
A breast still firm
Filled with nourishing milk
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Okon Singingsoul

As It Begins With A Brush Stroke On A Snare Drum

The plaza was so still in that moment two years ago that
everything was clear,
As if it had been preserved beneath a kind of lacquered
stillness, &, for a while,
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Larry Levis

The Joy And Pains Of Gambling

I am old and alone
Rich and yet lonely
Nothing to do
Except to wait my time
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Rose Marie Juan Austin

Hesperian Fall

The season brings but little gold,
And only rusty gules and sanguines dull
To these rude hills with darkling lava cored
And with thick, sombre rocks embossed
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Clark Ashton Smith

A Southern Night

The sandy spits, the shore-lock'd lakes,
Melt into open, moonlit sea;
The soft Mediterranean breaks
At my feet, free.
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Matthew Arnold

The Witch-mother

"O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep,
Against the night begins?"
"My bed is made wi' cauld sorrows,
My sheets are lined wi' sins.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Adieux à Marie Stuart

I.

Queen, for whose house my fathers fought,
With hopes that rose and fell,
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water To The Noble Duke Of Athole.

I.

My Lord, I know your noble ear
Woe ne'er assails in vain;
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Robert Burns

The Two Rosalinds

I

The dubious daylight ended,
And I walked the Town alone, unminding whither bound and why,
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Thomas Hardy

Oh, My Geraldine

Oh, my Geraldine,
No flow'r was ever seen so toodle um.
You are my lum ti toodle lay,
Pretty, pretty queen,
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Sir Francis Cowley Burnand

Covid-19

There is a outbreak called covid-19
Don't think it won't effect you if you are a teen
It doesn't know what discrimination mean
So watch out and don't be mean
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Azka Sadaat

Besmirched

She was a temple
Her body had no trace of a kettle

Always keeping them in an iron girdle
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Ifeanyi Onwubu

Well Wishes

I can see you smiling like a morning sun,
Your cheeks bouncing like a new born,
Your dimples appearing like no bones,
I mean bones of your face are absent,
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Abubakar Mohammed Musa