But for their cries,
The herons would be lost
Amidst the morning snow.
Chiyo Ni
Related
if the rain you left behind
for me to deal with
taught me anything in this life,
it w...
HANNAH CAO Across galaxies of time and space
Travelling just to see your face
Lost amidst the countle...
BRYCE ANDERSON If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
ELIZABETH KALES Snow White one, Snow White two,
Sorrow is coming out for you.
Snow White three, Snow White...
CAMERON JACE The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to...
EMILY DICKINSON In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I have lost my dewdrop", cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Ni dieu ni maître!
(Neither God nor master)
[Feminist and labour slogan trans...
LOUIS-AUGUSTE BLANQUI No one will retrieve my lost heart
amidst so many roots, in the bitter freshness
of the su...
PABLO NERUDA Seeing the swans swimming, the herons wanted to do it too. But the poor herons drowned and died, and...
GURU GOBIND SINGH Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unso...
WILFRED OWEN Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at ...
A.E. HOUSMAN I wish the night would end,
I wish the day'd begin,
I wish it would rain or snow,
or ...
V.C. ANDREWS Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Should have taken warning it's just
People mourning
Running, hiding, lost
You can't f...
CY CURNIN THE FIXX the lost women
I need to know their names
those women I would have walked with,
LUCILLE CLIFTON Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.
KOBAYASHI ISSA I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; ...
T.S. ELIOT Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below,
Over the housetops, over th...
THOMAS J. WATSON Ode to the Chamber
...linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love MUSE Te amo sin saber cómo, ni cuándo, ni de dónde,
te amo directamente sin problemas ni orgullo...
PABLO NERUDA Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar...
VERA NAZARIAN ...
You are here again,
so realistic,
just, the golden dawn
takes you away
ZORICA SAVRON All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow
BASHō MATSUO I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Now and again there's a moment,
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
t...
MARY OLIVER Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new...
MUNIA KHAN Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kaze
Clouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms
JAPANESE PROVERB His seed will issue kings, but he will never reign
For she would be Queen of Lumat...
MELINA MARCHETTA Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)
I would be true, for there are those who trust me; JOHN C. MAXWELL Why I Wake Early
Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
...
MARY OLIVER No está la muerte ni allí ni aquí,
se alza en todos los senderos.
Está en ti y está ...
HERMANN HESSE MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE
Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM How small life is here
and how big nothingness.
The sky, tired of light,
has given ev...
ROBERT WALSER Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I’d won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map.
ANNE SEXTON Buds in the snow
—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC kisses explode
when...
someone
believes in me
when my heart cries out ...
SANOBER KHAN Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
JOSEPH ADDISON But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—'
'By time travelin...
DEXTER PALMER I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.<...
RUTA SEPETYS for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground
for burned mermai...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
The body sluggish, aged, cold...
WALT WHITMAN For a while I thought I had lost her for good, but in our own fucked up way we had
swallowed ou...
GORDON ANDREWS Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Wings can only fly
as long as the bird flies
Soul blackens when you
put on vestment...
MUNIA KHAN all is dead
but for the mosquitoes
singing
their blood song
THABO JIJANA Africa! Africa! Africa!
Africa my motherland!
Africa, your people cries for you!
Afr...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morn...
ALFRED TENNYSON Etchings endure,
But not in Sand
Meanings Collide
To Unresolved Fragments
Code...
ASHIM SHANKER We all start from “naive realism,” i.e., the doctrine that things
are what they seem. We th...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Stephen kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And n...
SARA TEASDALE Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
To...
ROBERT FROST Be gentle,
always delicate
with every soul
you meet,
for every single morning TYLER KNOTT GREGSON I saw the sunset-colored sands,
The Nile like flowing fire between,
Where Rameses stares...
SARA TEASDALE we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If only one day,
their worlds could meet,
just halfway.
She would outplay,
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Green grass breaks through snow,
Artemis pleads for my help,
I am so cool.
RICK RIORDAN So, Mr. Digence, home to visit the family?"
"That's right. My mother's folks are from Kil...
EOIN COLFER The Wolf trots to and fro,
The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flie...
HERMANN HESSE Mi táctica es
mirarte
aprender como sos
quererte como sos
mi táctica ...
MARIO BENEDETTI TáCTICA Y ESTRATEGIA A desperate plea to the Trinity
is not something you can just
apologize for in the morning...
AMBER KONEVAL We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerf...
TAYLOR RHODES The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
BRUCE LEE GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smil...
ROBERT HERRICK i'm glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning ...
SANOBER KHAN i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and be...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED And that must end us, that must be our cure:
To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose,
...
JOHN MILTON With a changing key,
you unlock the house where
the snow of what’s silenced drifts.
PAUL CELAN il n'est ni sagesse, ni calcul, ni science de l'eau quand elle dissout les digues et engloutit les v...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb
May look wrinkled and wet
And withered, and white as the snow,
...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.
THICH NHAT HANH Resilience has a normal rhythm
You may not feel indestructable this morning
But tomorrow y...
NEIL MACH I never named anything I've written before
no reason to
since
it would all have the s...
ALLY CONDIE Dear God, I was terribly lost
When the galaxies crossed
And the sun went dark.
Dear G...
OWL CITY For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always wit...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Another snowball, this time it impacted on my shoulder.
I dusted the snow off my coat wi...
KARINA HALLE What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of reve...
JOHN MILTON Without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or...
GRANTLAND RICE I write for pages,
get lost in the mezzanine
hidden from stages.
KRISTEN HENDERSON And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware th...
CATHERINE FISHER Of course, I believe most of the older noblemen are actually bringing their sons - only ones eligibl...
C.J. REDWINE (fairy tale).
i wanna tell you a joke
but it will be like the frog finds the princess ZELDA GIN No te amo como si fueras rosa de sal, topacio
o flecha de claveles que propagan el fuego:
PABLO NERUDA Exactly. These guys just want me to play Snow White singing in her little cottage while they do all ...
ALYXANDRA HARVEY Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.<...
LANGSTON HUGHES The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.
The suspended body; a harbinger of go...
CHIRAG TULSIANI Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER We plough the fields and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedd...
MARGARET ATWOOD With belles no longer did he fall in love,
but dangled after them just anyhow;
when they r...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes,
experts, indeed. See, they wo...
CRISTINA MARRERO Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
KAMAND KOJOURI