Long Classical Poems
Long Classical Poems. Below are the most popular long Classical by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Classical poems by poem length and keyword.
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of TribulationI’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
classical, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Village In the ValleyVillage in the Valley left behind, and then it's a fine find
Mountain in the making...in the dark alleys of my mind
You're a flashlight
In the night
You are a friend
Till the end
Bite the bullet
You're the village...
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Categories:
classical, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
classical, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
classical, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
classical, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
Wisdom's Marching CouncilI know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
classical, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-ValluvarVillanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate
For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of
the THIRUK-KURAL
Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...
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Categories:
classical, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form:
Villanelle
The Book - the Narrative Style~The Book~
( Narrative / Short Story)
Shhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everyone...
Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking some of his notes?
Yes,...
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Categories:
classical, beautiful, books, fantasy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
classical, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
classical, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part FourRosalia - The Evil Witch of the Harz, Part Four
Rosalia’s Date with Destiny and the Power of Light and Goodness
It is said that the Almighty Lord God works in very mysterious ways . . ....
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Categories:
classical, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism?
This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major) in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...
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Categories:
classical, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
The BookShhh...Be quiet! please...or you'll wake up everybody...
Did you see what that young man did all this evening at the table while taking some of his notes?
Yes, sure we did, and so what?...
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Categories:
classical, bible, books, conflict, wisdom, writing, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
classical, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Inside the Great Halls of Us
“Inside the Great Halls of Us”
Inside
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost
IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone,
in our dark
there, IT holds ITs light,
to draw us further in,
we nervously laugh IT...
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Categories:
classical, i am, science fiction, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Untold Story of a Sitar 3
The Untold story of a Sitar Part 3 Concluded
.
A soothing musical note
Was coming out and floating
In the air
In that White coated
Old auditorium
Of a different era
Which was so alive before...
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Categories:
classical, music, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T WignesanTranslation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
...
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Categories:
classical, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient EgyptianPoetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.
Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.
Encryption can be used to mask...
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Categories:
classical, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
classical, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott HarrisHow one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)...
found himself bewitched about Circe,
particularly after reading book title by the same name.
An enchantress and a minor goddess
in ancient Greek mythology and religion
depicted...
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Categories:
classical, 12th grade, adventure, age, beautiful, literature, muse,
Form:
Free verse
War and Peace: That Midst Nations and NationalsWar and Peace: That Midst Nations And Nationals
War and Peace, a classical fiction by Leo Tolstoy, first published as Voyna I Mir in 1865–69. This picturesque reflection of early 19th-century Russian culture saw as its...
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Categories:
classical, allegory, angst, life, marriage, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Unforgettable Places - ActsI have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!
Tell me...
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Categories:
classical, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
The Reading of Villon Poems At West Berlin's Free University During the 1957-58 Winter SemesterThe reading of Villon poems at West Berlin’s Free University, Winter Semester 1957-58
...
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Categories:
classical, inspirational, passion, poetry, poets, remembrance day, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now''“Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now”
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past-
Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow
Or Trojan waters by...
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Categories:
classical, betrayal, desire, literature, love, passion, poetess, sin,
Form:
Prose
A Museum Ap-ArtI'd risen from my bed quite early, in the pale silent sunshine,
And I thought to have a day out, and not waste summer's prime.
The world still was sleeping, but the bluebirds sang a tune,
And blooms...
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Categories:
classical, adventure, art, beauty, color, fantasy, imagery, summer,
Form:
Couplet