Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s...

Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne (1572-1631)

Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrowDie...

Daffodils by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the...

A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that...

On His Blindness by John Milton (1608-1674)

When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg’d with...

The Tiger by William Blake (1757-1827)

Tiger Tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps...

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (1795-1821)

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery...

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half...

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A...

Luha ng Buhaya ni Amado V. Hernandez

Kagagaling ni Bandong, guro sa Sampilong, sa opisina ng Superintendente sa kabisera ng lalawigan sapagkat tinagubilinan siyang manuparang...

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as...

Mga Ibong Mandaragit ni Amado V. Hernandez

Si Andoy ay alila sa bahay ni Don Segundo Montero. Ipinapiit si Andoy ng Donsa Hapones sa suplong na isa siyang gerilya. Nakatakas...