Art poems

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To A Woman Of Malabar

© Charles Baudelaire

Your feet are as slender as hands, your hips, to me,
wide enough for the sweetest white girl’s envy:
to the wise artist your body is sweet and dear,
and your great velvet eyes black without peer.

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What Mr. Robinson Thinks

© James Russell Lowell

Guvener B. is a sensible man;

He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks;

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An Ode - Humbly Inscribed To The Queen, On the Glorious Success of Her Majesty's Arms

© Matthew Prior

When great Augustus govern'd ancient Rome,

And sent his conquering bands to foreign wars,

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The Muses Threnodie: Fifth Muse

© Henry Adamson

Yet bold attempt and dangerous, said I,

Upon these kinde of men such chance to try,

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A Dittie

© John Lyly

Behold her lockes like wiers of beaten gold,
her eyes like starres that twinkle in the skie,
Her heavenly face not framd of earthly molde,
Her voice that sounds Apollos melodie,
The miracle of time, the [whole] worlds storie,
Fortunes Queen, Loves treasure, Natures glory.

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Les Bijoux (The Jewels)

© Charles Baudelaire

La très chère était nue, et, connaissant mon coeur,
Elle n'avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores,
Dont le riche attirail lui donnait l'air vainqueur
Qu'ont dans leurs jours heureux les esclaves des Mores.

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"Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks"

© William Wordsworth

Brook! whose society the Poet seeks,

Intent his wasted spirits to renew;

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A Description Of One Of The Pieces Of Tapistry At Long-Leat

© Anne Kingsmill Finch


  Thus stand the LICTORS gazing on a Deed,
Which do's all humane Chastisements exceed;
Enfeebl'd seem their Instruments of smart,
When keener Words can swifter Ills impart.

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The Great Pig Story Of The Tweed.

© James Brunton Stephens

HANDS off, old man!" the young man cried —

They stood beside the Tweed,

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A Woman Scorning Her Lover

© Confucius

O dear! that artful boy
  Refuses me a word!
  But, Sir, I shall enjoy
  My food, though you're absurd!

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The Heathen Pass-ee

© Arthur Clement Hilton

Which I wish to remark,
And my language is plain,
That for plots that are dark
And not always in vain,
The heathen Pass-ee is peculiar,
And the same I would rise to explain.

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L’Invention

© André Marie de Chénier

O fils du Mincius, je te salue, ô toi

  Par qui le dieu des arts fut roi du peuple-roi!

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A Third Letter From B. Sawin, Esq.

© James Russell Lowell

I spose you recollect thet I explained my gennle views

In the last billet thet I writ, 'way down frum Veery Cruze,

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Song Of The Broad-Axe

© Walt Whitman

Strong shapes, and attributes of strong shapes-masculine trades,
  sights and sounds;
Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music;
Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great
  organ.

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The Viceroy. A Ballad.

© Matthew Prior

Of Nero, tyrant, petty king,
Who heretofore did reign
In famed Hibernia, I will sing,
And in a ditty plain.

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Noontide Hymn

© George MacDonald

I love thy skies, thy sunny mists,
Thy fields, thy mountains hoar,
Thy wind that bloweth where it lists-
Thy will, I love it more.

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To A Light Housekeeper

© Franklin Pierce Adams

These I mutely stand for
  Though the sight offend,
THIS I reprimand for;
  Take it from a friend:

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A Poem For The Meeting Of The American Medical Association At New York, May 5, 1853

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

I HOLD a letter in my hand,-

A flattering letter, more's the pity,-

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The Crow by Kaelum Poulson: American Life in Poetry #182 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006

© Ted Kooser

Poetry has often served to remind us to look more closely, to see what may have been at first overlooked. Today's poem is by Kaelum Poulson of Washington state. A middle school student and already accomplished maker of poems, he writes of the thankless toils of an unlikely but entirely necessary member of our community—the crow!

The Crow

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Aurora Leigh: Book Eighth

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


 In my ears
The sound of waters. There he stood, my king!