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Famous Short Home Poems. Short Home Poetry by Famous Poets

Famous Short Home Poems. Short Home Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Home short poems

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by Yosa Buson

Buying leeks

 Buying leeks
and walking home
 under the bare trees.


by Emily Dickinson

A Dimple in the Tomb

 A Dimple in the Tomb
Makes that ferocious Room
A Home --


by Wang Wei

Sometimes I'd walk

 Sometimes I'd walk,
walk far from home,
the things I've seen,
and I alone.


by Emily Dickinson

Not at Home to Callers

 Not at Home to Callers
Says the Naked Tree --
Bonnet due in April --
Wishing you Good Day --


by Robert Herrick

PEACE NOT PERMANENT

 Great cities seldom rest; if there be none
T' invade from far, they'll find worse foes at home.


by A R Ammons

Release

 After a long
muggy
hanging
day
the raindrops
started so
sparse
the bumblebee flew
between
them home


by Emily Dickinson

The Day she goes

 The Day she goes
Or Day she stays
Are equally supreme --
Existence has a stated width
Departed, or at Home --


by Emily Dickinson

The Hills in Purple syllables

 The Hills in Purple syllables
The Day's Adventures tell
To little Groups of Continents
Just going Home from School.


by Emily Dickinson

By homely gift and hindered Words

 By homely gift and hindered Words
The human heart is told
Of Nothing --
"Nothing" is the force
That renovates the World --


by Emily Dickinson

The fairest Home I ever knew

 The fairest Home I ever knew
Was founded in an Hour
By Parties also that I knew
A spider and a Flower --
A manse of mechlin and of Floes --


by Ogden Nash

The Rhinoceros

 The rhino is a homely beast, 
For human eyes he's not a feast. 
Farwell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,
I'll stare at something less prepoceros.


by Wang Wei

Random Poem

 You also come from my home town,
You must know all the home town news.
At dawn, before the silken window,
Is it too cold for plum blossom to show?


by Ambrose Bierce

Elegy

 The cur foretells the knell of parting day;
The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;
The wise man homewards plods; I only stay
To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.


by Li Po

Quiet Night Thoughts

 Before my bed
there is bright moonlight
So that it seems
Like frost on the ground:

Lifting my head
I watch the bright moon,
Lowering my head
I dream that I'm home.


by Spike Milligan

Welcome Home

 Unaware of my crime 
they stood me in the dock. 

I was sentenced to life.... 
without her. 

Strange trial. 
No judge. 
No jury. 

I wonder who my visitors will be.


by David Lehman

April 26

 When my father
Said mein Fehler
I thought it meant
"I'm a failure"
which was my error
which is what
mein Fehler means
in German which
is what my parents
spoke at home


by Li Po

Autumn River Song

 The moon shimmers in green water.
White herons fly through the moonlight.

The young man hears a girl gathering water-chestnuts:
into the night, singing, they paddle home together.


by Walt Whitman

Locations and Times.

 LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and
 makes
 me at home? 
Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds with them?


by Emily Dickinson

Absent Place -- an April Day --

 Absent Place -- an April Day --
Daffodils a-blow
Homesick curiosity
To the Souls that snow --

Drift may block within it
Deeper than without --
Daffodil delight but
Him it duplicate --


by Emily Dickinson

Volcanoes be in Sicily

 Volcanoes be in Sicily
And South America
I judge from my Geography --
Volcanos nearer here
A Lava step at any time
Am I inclined to climb --
A Crater I may contemplate
Vesuvius at Home.


by George William Russell

In Memoriam

 The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.


by Emily Dickinson

The Flower must not blame the Bee

 The Flower must not blame the Bee --
That seeketh his felicity
Too often at her door --

But teach the Footman from Vevay --
Mistress is "not at home" -- to say --
To people -- any more!


by Emily Dickinson

That is solemn we have ended

 That is solemn we have ended
Be it but a Play
Or a Glee among the Garret
Or a Holiday

Or a leaving Home, or later,
Parting with a World
We have understood for better
Still to be explained.


by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Far-Farers

 THE broad sun,
The bright day:
White sails
On the blue bay:
The far-farers
Draw away.

Light the fires
And close the door.
To the old homes,
To the loved shore,
The far-farers
Return no more.


by Emily Dickinson

The Soul that hath a Guest

 The Soul that hath a Guest
Doth seldom go abroad --
Diviner Crowd at Home --
Obliterate the need --

And Courtesy forbid
A Host's departure when
Upon Himself be visiting
The Emperor of Men --


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