Art poems

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Cantos de Vida y Esperanza

© Rubén Dario

I
Yo soy aquel que ayer no más decía
el verso azul y la canción profana,
en cuya noche un ruiseñor había
que era alondra de luz por la mañana.

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The Guardian Of The Red Disk

© Emma Lazarus

Spoken by a Citizen of Malta-1300.

A curious title held in high repute,

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The Miller's Maid

© Robert Bloomfield

Near the high road upon a winding stream
An honest Miller rose to Wealth and Fame:
The noblest Virtues cheer'd his lengthen'd days,
And all the Country echo'd with his praise:
His Wife, the Doctress of the neighb'ring Poor,
Drew constant pray'rs and blessings round his door.

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Human Life

© Samuel Rogers

An hour like this is worth a thousand passed
In pomp or ease - 'Tis present to the last!
Years glide away untold - 'Tis still the same!
As fresh, as fair as on the day it came!

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Thespis: Act II

© William Schwenck Gilbert

Jupiter, Aged Diety
Apollo, Aged Diety
Mars, Aged Diety
Diana, Aged Diety
Mercury

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Madhushala (The Tavern)

© Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Seeking wine, the drinker leaves home for the tavern.
Perplexed, he asks, "Which path will take me there?"
People show him different ways, but this is what I have to say,
"Pick a path and keep walking. You will find the tavern."

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Australasia

© William Charles Wentworth

Hadst thou, old Cynic, seen this unclad crew
Stretch their bare bodies in the nightly dew,
Like hairy Satyrs, midst their Sylvan seats,
Endure both winter's frosts, and summer's heats;
Thy cloak and tub away thou wouldst have cast,
And tried, like them, to brave the piercing blast.

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Children: Private Ward

© William Ernest Henley

Here in this dim, dull, double-bedded room,

I play the father to a brace of boys,

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book V - Part 02 - Against Teleological Concept

© Lucretius

And walking now

In his own footprints, I do follow through

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Cupid Far Gone

© Richard Lovelace

  I.
What, so beyond all madnesse is the elf,
  Now he hath got out of himself!
  His fatal enemy the Bee,

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Alsace-Lorraine

© George Meredith

Yet the like aerial growths may chance be the delicate sprays,
Infant of Earth's most urgent in sap, her fierier zeal
For entry on Life's upper fields:  and soul thus flourishing pays
The martyr's penance, mark for brutish in man to heel.

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The School-Mistress

© William Shenstone

Auditae voces, vagitus et ingens,

Infantunque animae flentes in limine primo. ~ Virg.

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The Human Tragedy ACT I

© Alfred Austin

Personages:
  Olive-
  Godfrid-
  Gilbert.

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The Land Of The Dawning

© George Essex Evans

Darkrose her shore in seas of amethyst

  By tropic breezes kissed,

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The Modern Major-General

© William Schwenck Gilbert

I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral,

I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;

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Tale IV

© George Crabbe

harm;
Give me thy pardon," and he look'd alarm:
Meantime the prudent Dinah had contrived
Her soul to question, and she then revived.
  "See! my good friend," and then she raised her

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Artie’s "Amen"

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

THEY were Methodists twain, of the ancient school,
Who always followed the wholesome rule
That whenever the preacher in meeting said
Aught that was good for the heart or head
His hearers should pour their feelings out
In a loud "Amen" or a godly shout.

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The Ruines of Time

© Edmund Spenser

But whie (vnhappie wight) doo I thus crie,
And grieue that my remembrance quite is raced
Out of the knowledge of posteritie,
And all my antique moniments defaced?
Sith I doo dailie see things highest placed,
So soone as fates their vitall thred haue neuer borne.

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Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto I.

© John Gay

But when the sun displays his glorious beams,
And shallow rivers flow with silver streams,
Then the deceit the scaly breed survey,
Bask in the sun, and look into the day.
You now a more delusive art must try,
And tempt their hunger with the curious fly.

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The Lord of the Isles: Canto III.

© Sir Walter Scott

I.

Hast thou not mark'd, when o'er thy startled head