Favourite Inspirational Poetry
A space for members to place their favourite inspirational poems - all poems placed here are believed to be in the public domain, if you know otherwise please contact us and they will be removed.
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THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS
by: W.B. Yeats
WENT out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
Ozymandias
(Suggested by Kestrel)
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and
trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the
sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip,
and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions
read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that
mocked them, and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words
appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye
Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that
colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far
away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
