Smile

Smiles and laughter are an essential part of our lives. When we laugh, we truly live. Here is a selection of poems about smiles and laughter. Let it lift your spirits! Read touching and sweet poems and do not forget to smile and enjoy every moment of your life.

«A Beautiful Smile» by Francis Duggan

Perhaps she is one who is not free of guile
But she is one who has such a beautiful smile
And a beautiful smile carries one a long way
It does more for one than words can ever say,
No doubt she’s not perfect we all have our flaws
The feline who often purrs is known to use her claws
But a smile from a stranger just in passing by
Can bring to your day a small flutter of joy,
On my cares and worries i did silently brood
As i walked down the street in an out of sorts mood
But a beautiful smile and a warm hello
From a lovely young woman one i did not know
Helped for to bring a little joy to my day
For the best things in life we do not need to pay.

***

«A Reason To Smile» by Lisa French

A reason to smile
Is that it looks better than a frown
It makes you feel happy
With no sense of feeling down

A reason to smile
Is that your smiles so bright
You could replace our sun
Your smiles full of light

A reason to smile
Is you’ll always look your best
Even though you always do
You’ll feel more blessed

A reason to smile
Is others look up to you
They want to be the same
Someone who is true

A reason to smile
Is that it shows who you are
So go on and smile
And shine like a star

***

«A Smile» by Daniel C. Colesworthy

A smile! – who will refuse a smile,
The sorrowing breast to cheer,
And turn to love the heart of guile,
And check the falling tear

It speaks of kindness and of love,
A generous sympathy;
And lifts, on golden wings above,
The child of penury.

A pleasant smile for every face
Oh, ’tis a blessed thing!
It will the lines of care erase,
And spots of beauty bring.

‘Twill calm the passions, and subdue
The ingrate’s fiercest rage;
With buds and blossoms sweetly strew
The path of youth and age.

***

«Awake To Smile » by Robert William Service

When I blink sunshine in my eyes
And hail the amber morn,
Before the rosy dew-drop dries
With sparkle on the thorn;
When boughs with robin rapture ring,
And bees hum in the may,–
Then call me young, with heart of Spring,
Though I be grey.

But when no more I know the joy
And urgence of that hour,
As like a happy-hearted boy
I leap to land aflower;
When gusto I no longer feel,
To rouse with glad hooray,–
Then call me old and let me steal
From men away.

Let me awaken with a smile
And go to garden glee,
For there is such a little while
Of living left to me;
But when star-wist I frail away,
Lord, let the hope beguile
That to Ecstatic Light I may
Awake to smile.

***

«Baby Picture» by Anne Sexton

It’s in the heart of the grape
where that smile lies.
It’s in the good-bye-bow in the hair
where that smile lies.
It’s in the clerical collar of the dress
where that smile lies.
What smile?
The smile of my seventh year,
caught here in the painted photograph.

It’s peeling now, age has got it,
a kind of cancer of the background
and also in the assorted features.
It’s like a rotten flag
or a vegetable from the refrigerator,
pocked with mold.
I am aging without sound,
into darkness, darkness.

Anne,
who are you?

I open the vein
and my blood rings like roller skates.
I open the mouth
and my teeth are an angry army.
I open the eyes
and they go sick like dogs
with what they have seen.
I open the hair
and it falls apart like dust balls.
I open the dress
and I see a child bent on a toilet seat.
I crouch there, sitting dumbly
pushing the enemas out like ice cream,
letting the whole brown world
turn into sweets.

Anne,
who are you?

Merely a kid keeping alive.

***

«Beauty’s Song» by Charles Lamb

What’s Life still changing ev’ry hour?
Tis all the seasons in a Day!
The Smile, the Tear, the Sun, the Shows
Tis now December, now tis May
At morn we hail some envied Queen;
At eve she sinks some Cottage guest;
Yet if contentment gilds the scene
Contentment makes the Cottage blest.


Who more than I, this truth can feel?
I feel it yet am charm’d to find
While thus I turn the spinning-wheel
The station humbles not the mind.
Ah no! in days of youth and health
Nature will smile tho’ fortune frown
Be this my song Content is wealth’
And duty ev’ry toil shall crown.

***

«It Starts With A Smile» by Catherine Pulsifer

It starts with a smile then a chuckle
Before you know it laughter explodes like a bubble
From the bottom of your toes
Laughter rises up to your nose.

Laughter when heard
Causes smiles inward
And when children laugh
It can double you in half.

A good laugh can cure
Any little old sore
It can make you feel happy and glad
A much better feeling than being sad.

Laughter is good for you
It will help in all you do.
Spread it around and see
People will be more happy!

***

«It’s Better To Smile» by David V. Bush

Lose temper, and all must perish;
Smile, and you’ll put er through!
An angry frown puts your true self down –
So smile, and dare, and do!

When your rage seems too hot to smother.
And the world bears a crimson hue,
Don’t play the fool – take a moment to cool –
Just smile, and you’ll push ‘er through!

When you feel like tearing and rending.
Just pause for a saner view.
There is naught to gain from your wrathful pain-
So smile, and you’ll push ‘er through!

Lose your temper, and you are vanquished:
Smile, and you’ll put ‘er through;
For anger’s the first of your foes – and worst –
So smile, and dare, and do!

***

«Keep On Smiling» by Alexandra Skiathitis

If at times you feel you want to cry
And life seems such a trial,
Above the clouds there’s a bright blue sky,
So make your tears a smile.

As you travel on life’s way
With its many ups and downs,
Remember it’s quite true to say
One smile is worth a dozen frowns.

Among the world’s expensive things,
A smile is very cheap.
And when you give a smile away,
You get one back to keep.

Happiness comes at times to all,
But sadness comes unbidden,
And sometimes a few tears must fall
Among the laughter hidden.

So when friends have sadness on their face
And troubles round them piled,
The world will seem a better place
And all because you smiled.

***

«Laughter» by Edgar A. Guest

Laughter sort o’ settles breakfast better than digestive pills;
Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills;
When the hired help have riled me with their slipshod, careless ways,
An’ I’m bilin’ mad an’ cussin’ an’ my temper’s all ablaze,
If the calf gets me to laughin’ while they’re teachin’ him to feed
Pretty soon I’m feelin’ better, ’cause I’ve found the cure I need.

Like to start the day with laughter; when I’ve had a peaceful night,
An’ can greet the sun all smilin’, that day’s goin’ to be all right.
But there’s nothing goes to suit me, when my system’s full of bile;
Even horses quit their pullin’ when the driver doesn’t smile,
But they’ll buckle to the traces when they hear a glad giddap,
Just as though they like to labor for a cheerful kind o’ chap.

Laughter keeps me strong an’ healthy. You can bet I’m all run down,
Fit for doctor folks an’ nurses when I cannot shake my frown.
Found in farmin’ laughter’s useful, good for sheep an’ cows an’ goats;
When I’ve laughed my way through summer, reap the biggest crop of oats.
Laughter’s good for any business, leastwise so it seems to me
Never knew a smilin’ feller but was busy as could be.

Sometimes sit an’ think about it, ponderin’ on the ways of life,
Wonderin’ why mortals gladly face the toil an care an’ strife,
Then I come to this conclusion–take it now for what it’s worth
It’s the joy of laughter keeps us plodding on this stretch of earth.
Men the fun o’ life are seeking–that’s the reason for the calf
Spillin’ mash upon his keeper–men are hungry for a laugh.

***

«Let’s Be Clowns» by Wilhelmina Stitch

Chalk-white faces, spangled gowns,
Airs and graces, capering clowns!
Noses painted (reds and browns);
Look! they’ve fainted; foolish clowns!
East and west, cities, towns, clap with zest circus clowns.
Speak no word – verbs or nouns.

Quite absurd, much-loved clowns.
What a fall! Smiles, no frowns.
Best of all- these agile clowns.
Daddy roars, so does mother.
That clown scores, smacks his brother.
Life must bring ups and downs.

In life’s ring let’s be clowns!
Learn their way to make folk smile;
Dullest day, hardest mile.
In life’s ring let’s be clowns;
Laugh and sing at ups and downs!

***

«Mona Lisa’s Smile» by Marilyn Lott

She has a mysterious smile
Folks wonder what it means
It’s been written in the text books
And envisioned in some dreams

Nat King Cole crooned a song
About Mona Lisa’s smile
Folks have wondered curiously
And studied her awhile

Did she smile because of love?
That wistful little grin
A thought perhaps in her mind
As she remembered him?

Did her face appear in a dream
Her talented artist had one night?
Or was it, in fact, the face of the man
Who sketched his own mirrored sight?

Of course no one will ever know
The true story of the smile
But it’s great fun, don’t you think?
For she truly could beguile!

***

«My Adorable Friend» by Sonali Ganguly

a friend so loving, adorable and rare;
a heart so tender, full of care.
special is the relation which we do share;
which returned smile to my every single tear.
lets the bond be strong, so time may not dare;
to kill it into pieces and break it ever.
relations never die being far or near;
let us promise to be friends forever.
affectionate as ever you have been;
such a pure soul had i never seen.
lost those smile you’ll regain;
may life shower on you a joyous rain.
may the starts ever shine upon you;
filling your life with a golden hue.
to make the pages of life complete and fine;
lucky i’m to have you as friend of mine.

***

«November» by William Cullen Bryant

Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun!
One mellow smile through the soft vapoury air,
Ere, o’er the frozen earth, the loud winds ran,
Or snows are sifted o’er the meadows bare.
One smile on the brown hills and naked trees,
And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are cast,
And the blue Gentian flower, that, in the breeze,
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
Yet a few sunny days, in which the bee
Shall murmur by the hedge that skim the way,
The cricket chirp upon the russet lea,
And man delight to linger in thy ray.
Yet one rich smile, and we will try to bear
The piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened air.

***

«Only A Smile» by Mathilde Blind

No butterfly whose frugal fare
Is breath of heliotrope and clove,
And other trifles light as air,
Could live on less than doth my love.

That childlike smile that comes and goes
About your gracious lips and eyes,
Hath all the sweetness of the rose,
Which feeds the freckled butterflies.

I feed my love on smiles, and yet
Sometimes I ask, with tears of woe,
How had it been if we had met,
If you had met me long ago,

Before the fast, defacing years
Had made all ill that once was well?
Ah, then your smiling breeds such tears
As Tantalus may weep in hell.

***

«Reason To Smile» by Lendl Ian Servillon

How can one smile such sweet smiles,
When one is so saddened by sorrows for miles,
How can I smile the same smiles,
When life brings me nothing but tears,

I wondered for so long,
What reason you had to smile that long,
To keep smiling though troubles come,
And still remain sweet and silently overcome,

It’s such a mystery to me,
Your smiles from heaven with glee,
I adore and yet envy thee,
But I’d rather you smile those at me,

I feel happy when I see you smile,
Even if I’m sad and lonely,
Your smiles bring me somewhere,
I don’t even know where,

But it was you,
You gave me the reason to smile,
To smile with no reason,
To smile for a smile,

I guess life is just like that,
We need not a reason to smile,
For a smile is the reason itself,
To rejoice and open-heartedly give thanks,

I learned to smile because of you,
Because your smiles bring me joy when blue,
It proves how well and powerful,
A simple sweet smile can become so beautiful,

Smile for the sake of a smile,
Smile for the sake of happiness,
Smile for the sake of life,
Smile because of hope left in life,

Smile my friends,
Smile for me my Love,
Smile those same sweet smiles,
Smile so the world can be a peaceful dove…

***

«Smile At Me» by Ernestine Northover

Can’t you just smile back at me
When I send a smile to you,
Why is it that your lips are tight
And seem so frosty blue,
Can’t you let your mouth just raise
Both sides a little bit,
Or is it that my face just doesn’t,
In your mind, quite fit.
If you would smile, your face would be
A very handsome one,
And I believe that you and I
Could have a lot of fun,
But until you give a welcome grin,
There’s nothing I can do,
Except, when you look across at me,
I’ll keep smiling back at you.

***

«Smile, Smile, Smile» by Walterrean Salley

A smile will pick you up
When you are down.
It’ll make you feel better—
Turn your day around.
So get yourself a smile,
And get rid of the frown.
Smile. Smile. Smile.

Smile at the sky,
Smile at the sun.
Smile at the flowers
Just for fun.
Smile if you’re dragging
Or on the run.
Smile. Smile. Smile.

Smile when you’re happy
And when you are sad.
Smile when you’re grumpy,
It’ll make you feel glad.
It could be the best day
You’ve ever had
If you Smile. Smile. Smile.

Smile at the sky,
Smile at the sun.
Smile at the flowers
Just for fun.
Smile if you’re dragging
Or on the run.
Smile. Smile. Smile.
Do yourself a favor and smile

***

«Smiles» by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Smile a little, smile a little,
As you go along,
Not alone when life is pleasant,
But when things go wrong.
Care delights to see you frowning,
Loves to hear you sigh;
Turn a smiling face upon her –
Quick the dame will fly.

Smile a little, smile a little,
All along the road;
Every life must have its burden,
Every heart its load.
Why sit down in gloom and darkness
With your grief to sup?
As you drink Fate’s bitter tonic,
Smile across the cup.

Smile upon the troubled pilgrims
Whom you pass and meet;
Frowns are thorns, and smiles are blossoms
Oft for weary feet.
Do not make the way seem harder
By a sullen face;
Smile a little, smile a little,
Brighten up the place.

Smile upon your undone labour;
Not for one who grieves
O’er his task waits wealth or glory;
He who smiles achieves.
Though you meet with loss and sorrow
In the passing years,
Smile a little, smile a little,
Even through your tears.

***

«Sunshine Of Your Smile» by David Harris

Everyday that I wake
something wonderful waits for me
the sunshine of your smile,
that I what I wake to see.
Outside maybe gloomy,
dark clouds may mar the blue,
but then I look around,
and what do I see,
the sunshine of your smile,
that warms the heart of me.
No tears of sorrow,
at what tomorrow might bring,
because your face is lit up,
with the sunshine of your smile.

***

«The Cost Of A Smile» by Catherine Pulsifer

Can you put a dollar on
Can you pretend and con
Can you just turn the dial
And bring on a common smile.

Priceless is a smile or a grin
For someone whose life feels dim
Money can never replace
That common smile on your face.

What has never gone out of style
Why it is that common smile.
It cost you nothing to give
So smile, grin, laugh and live!

***

«The Gladness Of Nature» by William Cullen Bryant

Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,
When our mother Nature laughs around;
When even the deep blue heavens look glad,
And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?

There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren,
And the gossip of swallows through all the sky;
The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den,
And the wilding bee hums merrily by.

The clouds are at play in the azure space,
And their shadows at play on the bright green vale,
And here they stretch to the frolic chase,
And there they roll on the easy gale.

There’s a dance of leaves in that aspen bower,
There’s a titter of winds in that beechen tree,
There’s a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower,
And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.

And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles
On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray,
On the leaping waters and gay young isles;
Ay, look, and he’ll smile thy gloom away.

***

«The Made To Order Smile» by Paul Laurence Dunbar

When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes,
And her brows are half uplifted in a nicely feigned surprise
As you breathe some pretty sentence, though she hates you all the while,
She is very apt to stun you with a made to order smile.

It’s a sublte combination of a sneer and a caress,
With a dash of warmth thrown in to relieve its iciness,
And she greets you when she meets you with that look as if a file
Had been used to fix and fashion out the made to order smile.

I confess that I’m eccentric and am not a woman’s man,
For they seem to be constructed on the bunko fakir plan,
And it somehow sets me thinking that her heart is full of guile
When a woman looks up at me with a made to order smile.

Now, all maidens, young and aged, hear the lesson I would teach:
Ye who meet us in the ballroom, ye who meet us at the beach,
Pray consent to try and charm us by some other sort of wile
And relieve us from the burden of that made to order smile.

***

«The Moon Is A Painter» by Vachel Lindsay

He coveted her portrait.
He toiled as she grew gay.
She loved to see him labor
In that devoted way.

And in the end it pleased her,
But bowed him more with care.
Her rose-smile showed so plainly,
Her soul-smile was not there.

That night he groped without a lamp
To find a cloak, a book,
And on the vexing portrait
By moonrise chanced to look.

The color-scheme was out of key,
The maiden rose-smile faint,
But through the blessed darkness
She gleamed, his friendly saint.

The comrade, white, immortal,
His bride, and more than bride—
The citizen, the sage of mind,
For whom he lived and died.

***

«The Service Of Smiles» by W. C. Martin

Go smiling through this world of care,
And make the days more bright and fair.
So much the clouds o’erspread the sky,
So many hopes and comforts die,
And we can all some cheer impart
To soothe a dull and careworn heart.
He serves the Lord who thus beguiles
The gloom from souls with sunny smiles.

Go smiling through this world of care;
‘Twill easy make the loads to bear,
And bring some rest and sweet relief
To souls borne down by care and grief.
In each one’s heart some sadness lies,
And tears have bathed all human eyes.
He serves the Master who beguiles
The gloom away with sunny smiles.

Go smiling all the way along,
And fill the days with joy and song;
Go speak a word of hope and cheer
To every soul that passes near:
For each of them as well as thee
That blood was shed on Calvary.
Ah, Christlike he is who beguiles
Away both care and grief with smiles.

***

«The Smile» by William Blake

There is a Smile of Love 

And there is a Smile of Deceit 

And there is a Smile of Smiles

In which these two Smiles meet 

And there is a Frown of Hate 

And there is a Frown of disdain 

And there is a Frown of Frowns

Which you strive to forget in vain 

For it sticks in the Hearts deep Core 

And it sticks in the deep Back bone 

And no Smile that ever was smild 

But only one Smile alone

That betwixt the Cradle & Grave

It only once Smild can be 

But when it once is Smild 

Theres an end to all Misery 

***

«The Transformation» by G. Luther Weibel

When the clouds obscure the sky,
And the world seems all awry;
And the rain comes pouring down,
And there’s trouble all around;
When someone speaks a word unkind,
And worries seem to fill the mind;
When my thoughts are very blue
Because there’s so much to do;
I place a smile upon my face
And note the change that’s taking place.
The clouds just seem to fade away,
The world and all around seems gay;
The rains have washed the face of earth,
Revealing much that is of worth;
And other faces seem to shine
Into the smiling face of mine;
The task that seemed so hard to do
Was quickly done, and better, too;
The world seemed happier to be
Because there was a smile on me.

***

«The Vital Accompaniment» by Strickland Gillilan

The wise admonition goes deeper, they say,
If you smile when you give it.
Your righteous life lures other feet to the Way
If you smile while you live it.
The word of good cheer finds the heart you had meant –
Sinks into the spirit to which it was sent –
Lends all of the help it was meant to have lent
If you smile when you give it.

The money you handed that brother in need –
Did you smile when you gave it?
His pride may have hurt till it made his heart bleed –
Nought but smiling could save it.
Not an impudent smirk or a meaningless grin,
Not a smile just as deep as your outermost skin –
But a love-laden smile, with sweet confidence in –
That will help him to brave it.

***

«Times When I Smile» by Sandra Osborne

You may not even know me,
Or know what I mean,
Understand my world,
Or hear me when I scream.

You may not ever see me,
Or ever touch my mind,
Because all that is real
Are only dreams in time.

Don’t try to fit me in
To your ridged mold,
All the world is free,
At least, thats what I’m told.

So please, don’t scream and worry
Or cry for me at night.
No matter how I’m different,
I will win my fight.

I will be the victor
Of all my many trials,
Because all that’s real are dreams,
And times when I smile.

***

«To The Evening Star» by William Blake

Thou fair-haired angel of the evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light
Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown
Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
Smile on our loves, and while thou drawest the
Blue curtains of the sky, scatter thy silver dew
On every flower that shuts its sweet eyes
In timely sleep. Let thy west wing sleep on
The lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes,
And wash the dusk with silver. Soon, full soon,
Dost thou withdraw; then the wolf rages wide,
And the lion glares through the dun forest.
The fleeces of our flocks are covered with
Thy sacred dew; protect with them with thine influence.

***

«Value It Brings» by Catherine Pulsifer

Value it brings to everyone
It is like a little burst of sun.
Never underestimate the thing
That a friendly smile will bring.

You may think that little grin
Could start a smile within
It’s like a chuckle for the fellow
Who breaks into a laugh and bellows

Smiles have a value you see
And even better they are free
So give one of yours away
And brighten someone else’s day!

***

«Worth Its Weight in Gold» by Catherine Pulsifer

Is a smile is worth its weight in gold
It is something that can’t be bought or sold.
A smile is worth so much more
It is a facial expression we adore.

Is a smile worth going the extra mile for
When your smilin’ you won’t be bored
A smile given in forgiveness is pure
To stop an argument it can cure.

A smile is worth opening the door
You’ll be amazed at what is in store
You see a smile is worth its weight in gold
It is welcome and never old.

***

«Worth While» by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth
Is the smile that shines through tears.

It is easy enough to be prudent,
When nothing tempts you to stray,
When without or within no voice of sin
Is luring your soul away;
But it’s only a negative virtue
Until it is tried by fire,
And the life that is worth the honor of earth
Is the one that resists desire.

By the cynic, the sad, the fallen,
Who had no strength for the strife,
The world’s highway is cumbered to-day;
They make up the sum of life.
But the virtue that conquers passion,
And the sorrow that hides in a smile,
It is these that are worth the homage on earth
For we find them but once in a while.

***

«Your Beautiful Smile» by Freespirit Juneja

Your Beautiful Smile

Life is a mystical winding
Woven around happy and sad things
It flows like ripples of water
Turned me into perpetual carter
Mirth & peace play games of guile
But I never realized
It’s next to me, your beautiful smile

Rarely, blink my eye on odd notion
Life’s filled with dreary commotion
Whole year seems concised in a day
My own shadow made me partying bay
Happiness seemed to be so labile
But I never realized,
It’s always next to me, your beautiful smile


The Smile
Beautifully unzips around your face
Annihilate griefs without trace
Arouse me to pinnacle of elation
Embraces me this beautiful creation
Melodramatic life made me fragile
Protected and cared by your beautiful smile