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Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as poem)
avg rating 3.95 — 822,583 ratings — published 2014
The Sun and Her Flowers (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as poem)
avg rating 4.08 — 384,191 ratings — published 2018
The Divan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as poem)
avg rating 4.65 — 7,397 ratings — published 1390
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as poem)
avg rating 4.17 — 23,318 ratings — published 1120
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as poem)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,523,879 ratings — published 1974
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as poem)
avg rating 4.29 — 173,047 ratings — published 1845
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as poem)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,890 ratings — published 1963
The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as poem)
avg rating 3.82 — 161,764 ratings — published 2016
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as poem)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,217,977 ratings — published -800
آیدا در آینه (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as poem)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,760 ratings — published 1964
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as poem)
avg rating 3.86 — 185,166 ratings — published 1667
Love & Misadventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as poem)
avg rating 3.93 — 58,823 ratings — published 2013
تولدی دیگر (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poem)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,324 ratings — published 1964
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as poem)
avg rating 4.23 — 333,472 ratings — published 1923
شعرها ١٣٢٣ - ١٣٧٨: دفتر یکم (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as poem)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,033 ratings — published 2002
A Light in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as poem)
avg rating 4.37 — 479,867 ratings — published 1981
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as poem)
avg rating 4.09 — 175,754 ratings — published 1320
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as poem)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,216 ratings — published 1924
Home Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as poem)
avg rating 4.05 — 161,367 ratings — published 2020
هوای تازه (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as poem)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,068 ratings — published 1956
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as poem)
avg rating 4.11 — 117,702 ratings — published 1855
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as poem)
avg rating 3.93 — 520,657 ratings — published -800
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as poem)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,762 ratings — published 1010
The Waste Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as poem)
avg rating 4.11 — 60,071 ratings — published 1922
Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as poem)
avg rating 3.80 — 56,463 ratings — published 2017
The Captain's Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as poem)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,195 ratings — published 1952
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as poem)
avg rating 3.50 — 351,253 ratings — published 1000
آخر شاهنامه (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as poem)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,526 ratings — published 1959
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as poem)
avg rating 4.29 — 107,154 ratings — published 1890
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as poem)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,824 ratings — published 1857
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as poem)
avg rating 3.72 — 50,112 ratings — published 2018
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as poem)
avg rating 4.03 — 209,454 ratings — published 1321
غزلیات سعدی (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as poem)
avg rating 4.64 — 2,060 ratings — published 1290
سیاه مشق (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as poem)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,421 ratings — published 1332
مثنوی معنوی (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as poem)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,173 ratings — published 1273
گلستان سعدی (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as poem)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,482 ratings — published 1258
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as poem)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,297 ratings — published 1798
Hujan Bulan Juni (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as poem)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,394 ratings — published 1994
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as poem)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,073 ratings — published 1956
دیوان اشعار پروین اعتصامی
by (shelved 25 times as poem)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,222 ratings — published 1935
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as poem)
avg rating 4.39 — 51,013 ratings — published 1273
دستورِ زبانِ عشق (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as poem)
avg rating 3.80 — 825 ratings — published 2007
ديوان فروغ فرخزاد (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as poem)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,375 ratings — published
“When Great Trees Fall
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
―
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.”
―
“If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can Ease one life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.”
―
I shall not live in vain;
If I can Ease one life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain
Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain.”
―
