Voiced // POEM SHARE: Quiet Girl by Langston Hughes

Quiet Girl
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.

LANGSTON HUGHES

Voiced // POEM SHARE: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken
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 far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

ROBERT FROST

--

An illustrated rendition of the poem:

Find more illustrated poems on

www.zenpencils.com

Voiced // POEM SHARE: The Fly by William Blake

The Fly
Little fly, 

Thy summer’s play 

My thoughtless hand 

Has brushed away. 

Am not I 

A fly like thee? 

Or art not thou 

A man like me? 

For I dance 

And drink and sing, 

Till some blind hand 

Shall brush my wing. 

If thought is life 

And strength and breath, 

And the want 

Of thought is death,

Then am I 

A happy fly, 

If I live, 

Or if I die. 

WILLIAM BLAKE

--

Video rendition of the poem: