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Famous Short Time Poems. Short Time Poetry by Famous Poets

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

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by Harold Pinter

Poem (I saw Len Hutton in his prime...)

 I saw Len Hutton in his prime

Another time

 another time


by Kobayashi Issa

All the time I pray to Buddha

 All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes.


by Kobayashi Issa

Last time, I think

 Last time, I think,
I'll brush the flies
from my father's face.


by Robert Herrick

Time was upon

 Wrinkles no more are, or no less,
Than beauty turn'd to sourness.


by Kobayashi Issa

In these latter-day

 In these latter-day,
Degenerate times,
 Cherry-blossoms everywhere!


by Wang Wei

Sometimes I'd walk

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


by Philip Larkin

This Is The First Thing

 This is the first thing
I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe
Within a wood.


by Hilaire Belloc

Time Cures All

 It was my shame, and now it is my boast, 
That I have loved you rather more than most.


by Robert Herrick

THE PRESENT TIME BEST PLEASETH

 Praise, they that will, times past: I joy to see
Myself now live; this age best pleaseth me!


by Friedrich von Schiller

The Immutable

 Time flies on restless pinions--constant never.
Be constant--and thou chainest time forever.


by Emily Dickinson

Sometimes with the Heart

 Sometimes with the Heart
Seldom with the Soul
Scarcer once with the Might
Few -- love at all.


by Nizar Qabbani

Every Time I Kiss You

 Every time I kiss you
After a long separation
I feel
I am putting a hurried love letter
In a red mailbox.


by Emily Dickinson

Parting with Thee reluctantly,

 Parting with Thee reluctantly,
That we have never met,
A Heart sometimes a Foreigner,
Remembers it forgot --


by Gelett Burgess

The Lazy Roof

 The Roof it has a Lazy Time
A-Lying in the Sun;
The Walls, they have to Hold Him Up;
They do Not Have Much Fun!


by Dorothy Parker

Faute De Mieux

 Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme-
I never said they feed my heart,
But still they pass my time.


by Emily Dickinson

Before He comes we weigh the Time!

 Before He comes we weigh the Time!
'Tis Heavy and 'tis Light.
When He depart, an Emptiness
Is the prevailing Freight.


by Wang Wei

Duckweed Pond

 Spring pond deep and wide

Time for the vessel’s return

Slow the duckweed flows together

Willows draw them apart again


by Emily Dickinson

Too happy Time dissolves itself

 Too happy Time dissolves itself
And leaves no remnant by --
'Tis Anguish not a Feather hath
Or too much weight to fly --


by Ogden Nash

The Shrimp

 A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp
Could catch no glimpse
Not even a glimp.
At times, translucence
Is rather a nuisance.


by Emily Dickinson

Time's wily Chargers will not wait

 Time's wily Chargers will not wait
At any Gate but Woe's --
But there -- so gloat to hesitate
They will not stir for blows --


by Maya Angelou

Passing Time

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk

One paints the beginning
of a certain end.

The other, the end of a
sure beginning.


by Emily Dickinson

Time does go on --

 Time does go on --
I tell it gay to those who suffer now --
They shall survive --
There is a sun --
They don't believe it now --


by Emily Dickinson

Look back on Time, with kindly eyes --

 Look back on Time, with kindly eyes --
He doubtless did his best --
How softly sinks that trembling sun
In Human Nature's West --


by Robert Burns

175. Epigram to Miss Jean Scott

 O HAD each Scot of ancient times
 Been, Jeanie Scott, as thou art;
The bravest heart on English ground
 Had yielded like a coward.


by Richard Brautigan

Donner Party

 Forsaken, fucking in the cold, 
eating each other, lost 
runny noses, 
complaining all the time 
like so many 
people 
that we know


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