Poem
By Dorothy Parker
I think, no matter where you stray,
That I shall go with you a way.
Though you may wander sweeter lands…
That I shall go with you a way.
Though you may wander sweeter lands…
Category
Love
Classic and contemporary works on affection, connection, heartbreak, and more.
Showing 1-20 of 3,395 results
- PoemBy Countee CullenIf love be staunch, call mountains brittle
Love is a thing will live
So long, my dear,––oh, just the little
While water stays in a sieve.
Yea, love is deathless as the day
Whose death the stars reveal;
And love is loyal all the way,
If treachery... - PoemBy Countee CullenCome, let us plant our love as farmers plant
A seed, and you shall water it with tears,
And I shall weed it with my hands until
They bleed. Perchance this buried love of ours
Will fall on goodly ground and bear a tree
With... - PoemBy Countee CullenWhat if you come
Again and swell
The throat of some
Mute bird;
How shall I tell?
How shall I know.
That it is so,
Having heard?
Done, let no trick
Of what’s to come
Deceive; the quick
So soon grow dumb;
With wine and bread
Our feast is spread;
Let’s leave no crumb. - PoemBy Dorothy ParkerI think that I shall never know
Why I am thus, and I am so.
Around me, other girls inspire
In men the rush… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfRebecca Lindenberg on diabetes, a final phone call, and letting yourself fall in love.
- PoemBy Caroline Harper NewA man by the name of Skinner becomes famous
for keeping caged
pigeons, whom his clock feeds or starves
at random. Their tiny twitching heads exaggerate until... - PoemBy Irina RatushinskayaI know it won't be received
Or sent. The page will be
In shreds as soon as I have scribbled it.
Later. … - PoemBy Shereen AkhtarIn our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
a calligraphic feast. Our friends… - PoemBy Trevor Ketnertongue / rim a soft hole—tender meat trim—
mind leitmotiv (doe, moss, petal, vein,
hart, hilt, waist, … - PoemBy Anastasia Taylor-LindIt’s 9/11 the first time you stay.
In the morning you bring Taliban poems back to bed.
I drink cardamom… - PoemBy Jessica RigneyIt's important she says that summer
Flatten itself against autumn. That it keep Insisting yes yes it'… - PoemBy Jessica JiangTiffany,
I’ve gotten used to sunlight with you,
but no pressure! Just—
spring doesn’t hurt as much anymore… - PoemBy Vanessa Deeringin the building two women’s restroom & in the strangest places
i want to tell you the most mundane things… - PoemBy T.S. Leonardand it ends, of course, in fabulous heartbreak, like anything—
it’s not an if, but when—so the trick … - PoemBy Nicole TallmanTo all the boys
who asked me
to dance and to
all the boys to whom
I said yes and to
all the steps we took… - PoemBy Fatimah AsgharMy teacher says of their cat, now gone
missing. In his absence, everything is still.
The small, silvered… - PoemBy Olive FranklinLoved you since I was little, on the playground break-time
-brawled with you and your mismatched cuffs… - PoemBy Karen HoulePulling the foreign body off me— out of the dress up over my arms through the neckhole—
he says, You… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfCass Donish on grief rituals, putting on makeup, and letting in joy.