All Poems

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To A Gitana Dancing: Seville

© Arthur Symons

BECAUSE you are fair as souls of the lost are fair,

And your eyelids laugh with desire, and your laughing feet

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I've roamed the wide world over,

© Alaric Alexander Watts

I've roamed the wide world over,

From Indus to the Pole;

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Betrothed

© Augusta Davies Webster

I DID not think to love her. As we go

 We pluck a hedge-rose blushing in its sheath,

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Spirit Voices

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

There are voices, spirit voices,

Sweetly sounding everywhere,

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To The White Fiends

© Claude McKay

Think you I am not fiend and savage too?

Think you I could not arm me with a gun

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Song For 'Tasso'

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.
I loved—alas! our life is love;
But when we cease to breathe and move
I do suppose love ceases too.

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Botany Bay

© Anonymous

Farewell to old England for ever,
Farewell to my rum culls as well,
Farewell to the well-known Old Bailey.
Where I used for to cut such a swell.

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The Two Churches

© William Barnes

A happy day, a happy year.

  A zummer Zunday, dazzlèn clear,

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For The Living

© Edgar Albert Guest

IF you like a brother here,

Tell him so;

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The Little Left Hand - Act II

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Lady Marian. Send
For others then. I see a girl at the street's end
Selling some mignonette. What do you say?
(Putting on a bow.) This bow,
Is it too bright for the rest?

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Still The Mind Smiles

© Robinson Jeffers

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions,

Knowing all the while that civilization and the other evils

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Brings me hope

© Shams al-Din Hafiz

WHAT drunkenness is this that brings me hope--
Who was the Cup-bearer, and whence the wine?
That minstrel singing with full voice divine,
What lay was his? for 'mid the woven rope
Of song, he brought word from my Friend to me
Set to his melody.

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Little Moozoo-May

© George Ade

The rose of June can feel no sorrow,

It never droops or says " Ah me! "

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David And Goliath. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Great Lord of all things! Power divine!
Breathe on this erring heart of mine
  Thy grace serene and pure:
Defend my frail, my erring youth,
And teach me this important truth--
  The humble are secure!

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The Kalevala - Rune XLIX

© Elias Lönnrot

RESTORATION OF THE SUN AND MOON.


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Changsha

© Mao Zedong

Alone I stand in the autumn cold

On the tip of Orange Island,

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Programme

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

READER--gentle--if so be
Such still live, and live for me,
Will it please you to be told
What my tenscore pages hold?

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A Photographic Failure

© Carolyn Wells

Mr. Hezekiah Hinkle
  Saw a patient Periwinkle
With a kodak, sitting idly by a rill.
  Feeling a desire awaken
  For to have his picture taken,
Mr. Hezekiah Hinkle stood stock-still.

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The Heroic Enthusiasts - Part The First =Third Dialogue.=

© Giordano Bruno

CIC. I do not believe it is always like that, Tansillo; because,
sometimes, notwithstanding that we discover the spirit to be vicious, we
remain heated and entangled; so that, although reason perceives the evil
and unworthiness of such a love, it yet has not power to alienate the
disordered appetite. In this disposition, I believe, was the Nolano when
he said: