CERMIN HATI

Example for Poem in English

(Source: English For Junior High School-9. International Standard School.Ministry of Education and Culture.)

Example First:

Sea

Created:  Leonald Clank

Over the hill

First sight of the sea

Lying sunlit and still

Just waiting for me.

I race from the land

In the clear morning light

To rock pool and sand,

Shells whiter than white.

Birds ride the sky,

The wispy clouds there

Soft floating, and I

Am walking on air.

Second Example:

Sweet and Twenty

Created: William Shakespare, 1564-1616

O MISTRESS mine, where are you roaming?

O, stay and hear! Your true love’s coming,

That can sing both high and low!

Trip no further, pretty sweeting;

Journeys end in lovers meeting,

Every wise man’s son doth know.

What is love? ‘Tis not fereafter;

Present mirth hath present laughter;

What’s to come is still unsure;

In delay there lies no plenty;

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty!

Youth’s a stuff will not endure.

Third Example:

The Lady of the Lambs

Created: Alice Meynell, 1850

SHE walks-the lady of my delight-

A shepherdess of sheep.

Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;

She guards them from the steep.

She feeds them on the fragrant height,

And folds them in for sleep.

She roams maternal hills and bright,

Dark valley safe and deep.

Her dreams are innocent at night;

The chastest stars may peep.

She walks-the lady of my delight-

A shepherdess of sheep.

She holds her little thoughts in sight,

Though gay they run and leap.

She is so circumspect and right;

She has her soul to keep.

She walks-the lady of my delight-

A shepherdess of sheep.

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