Courage poems

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Phi Beta Kappa Poem

© Bliss William Carman

Harvard, 1914
SIR, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve
A high occasion. Our New England wears
All her unrivalled beauty as of old;

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The Right Sort

© William Henry Ogilvie

We have hustled that litter in Heatherlie Whin,

Two crouch in the bracken, two dodge in the corn,

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The Boundary Rider

© Thomas William Heney

THE BRIDLE reins hang loose in the hold of his lean left hand;  

As the tether gives, the horse bends browsing down to the sand,  

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Hermann And Dorothea - VII. Erato

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Joyfully heard the youth the willing maiden's decision,
Doubting whether he now had not better tell her the whole truth;
But it appear'd to him best to let her remain in her error,
First to take her home, and then for her love to entreat her.
Ah! but now he espied a golden ring on her finger,
And so let her speak, while he attentively listen'd:--

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Litany for Dictatorships

© Stephen Vincent Benet

For all those beaten, for the broken heads,
The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed,
The ghosts in the burning city of our time ...

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Trilogy Of Passion 02 Elegy

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WHAT hope of once more meeting is there now
In the still-closed blossoms of this day?
Both heaven and hell thrown open seest thou;
What wav'ring thoughts within the bosom play
No longer doubt! Descending from the sky,
She lifts thee in her arms to realms on high.

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On Love

© Bliss William Carman

TO the assembled folk  

At great St. Kavin’s spoke  

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Metamorphoses: Book The Seventh

© Ovid

  The End of the Seventh Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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Zyps Of Zirl

© Madison Julius Cawein

The Alps of the Tyrol are dark with pines,
Where, foaming under the mountain spines,
The Inn's long water sounds and shines.

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The Death Of Olaf Tryggvision

© Katharine Lee Bates

I

BLUE as blossom of the myrtle

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Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto II

© Samuel Butler

THE ARGUMENT

The catalogue and character

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The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The Fourth

© William Lisle Bowles

  O'er my poor ANNA'S lowly grave
  No dirge shall sound, no knell shall ring;
  But angels, as the high pines wave,
  Their half-heard "Miserere" sing.

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The Phantom Light Of The Baie Des Chaleurs

© Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton

Strange is the tale that the fishermen tell,–
They say that a ball of fire fell
Straight from the sky, with crash and roar,
Lighting the bay from shore to shore;
That the ship, with a shudder and a groan,
Sank through the waves to the caverns lone

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An Essay On The Different Stiles Of Poetry

© Thomas Parnell


I hate the Vulgar with untuneful Mind,
Hearts uninspir'd, and Senses unrefin'd.
Hence ye Prophane, I raise the sounding String,
And Bolingbroke descends to hear me sing.

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The Russian Fugitive

© William Wordsworth

I

ENOUGH of rose-bud lips, and eyes

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The Lady Of Provence

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

"Courage was cast about her like a dress
Of solemn comeliness,
A gathered mind and an untroubled face
Did give her dangers grace." ~ Donne.

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'The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 12

© Publius Vergilius Maro

WHEN Turnus saw the Latins leave the field,  

Their armies broken, and their courage quell’d,  

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Army Of Northern Virginia

© Stephen Vincent Benet

He only said it once-the marble closed-
There was a man enclosed within that image.
There was a force that tried Proportion's rule
And died without a legend or a cue
To bring it back. The shadow-Lees still live.
But the first-person and the singular Lee?

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Don Juan: Canto The Third

© George Gordon Byron

The isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.