Humility
25 poems
Smallness, simplicity, self-effacement: poems about humility, against the grain of the ego. Read them on Loëly.
13. - If I could trust mine own self with your fate
Christina Rossetti
Monna Innominata
A Plain Life
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
A prayer
Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Fable
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hymn to Appolo
John Keats
Loss And Gain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Of St. Francis and the Ass
Katharine Tynan
Sonnet 103
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 32
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 49
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 85
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Sonnet 88
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Supper
William Soutar
The Fox
Khalil Gibran
The Reward
James Weldon Johnson
The Sluggard
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
The Supreme Sacrifice
Emma Lazarus
The Wise Dog
Khalil Gibran
To the muse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
VIII - What can I give thee back
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
XI - And therefore if to love can be desert
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
XII - Indeed this very love which is my boast
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
XVII - My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese