Art poems

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The Parrot

© William Cowper

In painted plumes superbly dress'd,
A native of the gorgeous east,
By many a billow toss'd;
Poll gains at length the British shore,
Part of the captain's precious store,
A present to his toast.

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The Master-Cook

© Rudyard Kipling

With us there rade a Maister-Cook that came

From the Rochelle which is neere Angouleme.

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[Yesterday, the sunshine made the air glow]

© James Russell Lowell

Circling as hunters aim down on me
while you rise, rise, rise into the blue sky
 and meet me over in the next fields.

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Attainment

© Madison Julius Cawein

ON the Heights of Great Endeavour,— 

Where Attainment looms forever,— 

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Slavery

© Erica Jong

If Heaven has into being deigned to call


Thy light, O Liberty! to shine on all;

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To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris

© Helen Maria Williams

What crowding thoughts around me wake,


What marvels in a Christmas-cake!

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Adam’s Curse

© William Butler Yeats

We sat grown quiet at the name of love; 
We saw the last embers of daylight die, 
And in the trembling blue-green of the sky 
A moon, worn as if it had been a shell 
Washed by time’s waters as they rose and fell 
About the stars and broke in days and years.

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The Georgics

© Virgil

GEORGIC I

 What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star

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The Rhyme of Joyous Garde

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense
With fumes of the flowery frankincense
From hawthorn blossoming thickly;
And gold is shower'd on grass unshorn,

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The Moon and the Comet

© Amelia Opie

This fact is clear….Both man and woman
Prize not what's good, but what's uncommon ;
And most delighted still they are,
Not with the excellent, but rare,….
I could of this give proofs most stable,
But, par exemple , take a fable.

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O Jours De Mon Printemps

© André Marie de Chénier

O jours de mon printemps, jours couronnés de rose,

  A votre fuite en vain un long regret s'oppose,

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Orient Ode

© Francis Thompson

Lo, in the sanctuaried East,

Day, a dedicated priest

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The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto IV.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

III Compensation
  That nothing here may want its praise,
  Know, she who in her dress reveals
  A fine and modest taste, displays
  More loveliness than she conceals.

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Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen

© William Butler Yeats

MANY ingenious lovely things are gone

That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,

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A Monumental Column : A Funeral Elegy

© John Webster

To The Right Honourable Sir Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and One Of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

The greatest of the kingly race is gone,

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The Sorcerer: Act II

© William Schwenck Gilbert


Scene-Exterior of Sir Marmaduke's mansion by moonlight.  All the
 peasantry are discovered asleep on the ground, as at the end
 of Act I.

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Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur

© Alfred Tennyson

That story which the bold Sir Bedivere,
First made and latest left of all the knights,
Told, when the man was no more than a voice
In the white winter of his age, to those
With whom he dwelt, new faces, other minds.

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The Thirteenth Olympic Ode Of Pindar

© Henry James Pye

To Xenophon of Corinth, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, and Pentathlon, at Olympia. ARGUMENT. The Poet begins his Ode, by complimenting the family of Xenophon, on their successes in the Olympic Games, and their hospitality; and then celebrates their country, Corinth, for it's good government, and for the quick genius of it's inhabitants, in the invention of many useful and ornamental Arts. He then implores Jupiter to continue his blessings on them, and to remain propitious to Xenophon; whose exploits he enumerates, together with those of Thessalus and Ptœodorus, his father and grandfather. He then launches out again in praise of Corinth and her Citizens, and relates the story of Bellerophon. He then, checking himself for digressing so far, returns to his Hero, relates his various success in the inferior Games of Greece, and concludes with a Prayer to Jupiter.

STROPHE I.

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The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The Second

© Mark Akenside

Till all its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
Where nature calls him to the destin'd goal.