Courage poems

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To An Old Schoolhouse

© Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Down by the end of the lane it stands,

  Where the sumac grows in a crimson thatch,

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The Garden Of Adonis

© Emma Lazarus

(The Garden of Life in Spenser's "Faerie Queene.")
IT is no fabled garden in the skies,
But bloometh here— this is no world of death;
And nothing that once liveth, ever dies,

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Queen Mab: Part VIII.

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

THE FAIRY
  'The present and the past thou hast beheld.
  It was a desolate sight. Now, Spirit, learn,
  The secrets of the future--Time!

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The Watcher on the Tower

© Madison Julius Cawein

WHAT of the Night, O Watcher? 

The Voice of a Woman

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Conversation

© William Cowper

Though nature weigh our talents, and dispense

To every man his modicum of sense,

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Heroes

© Edgar Albert Guest

There are different kinds of heroes, there are some you hear about.
They get their pictures printed, and their names the newsboys shout;
There are heroes known to glory that were not afraid to die
In the service of their country and to keep the flag on high;
There are brave men in the trenches, there are brave men on the sea,
But the silent, quiet heroes also prove their bravery.

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Unpublished Poem I

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

JONES plays the deuce with his grammar,
Knocks time and tense into tin-tacks ;
Brown, the big Visigoth, wielding blunt hammer,
Mauls right and left the Queen's syntax.

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The Shepherd's Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps

© John Gay

Sparabella.

The wailings of a maiden I recite,

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The Last Suttee

© Rudyard Kipling

Udai Chand lay sick to death
 In his hold by Gungra hill.
All night we heard the death-gongs ring
For the soul of the dying Rajpoot King,
All night beat up from the women's wing
 A cry that we could not still.

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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - part 04

© Torquato Tasso

XLIII

The Pagan ill defenced with sword or targe,

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The Roman: A Dramatic Poem

© Sydney Thompson Dobell

SCENE I.
A Plain in Italy-an ancient Battle-field. Time, Evening.
Persons.-Vittorio Santo, a Missionary of Freedom. He has gone out, disguised as a Monk, to preach the Unity of Italy, the Overthrow of Austrian Domination, and the Restoration of a great Roman Republic.--A number of Youths and Maidens, singing as they dance. 'The Monk' is musing.
Enter Dancers.

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Hudibras: Part 2 - Canto II

© Samuel Butler

Quoth RALPHO, Honour's but a word
To swear by only in a Lord:
In other men 'tis but a huff,
To vapour with instead of proof;
That, like a wen, looks big and swells,
Is senseless, and just nothing else.

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Mute Discourse.

© James Brunton Stephens

GOD speaks by silence. Voice-dividing man,

Who cannot triumph but he saith, Aha —

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Aurora Leigh: Book Fifth

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


  "A flower, a flower," exclaimed
My German student,-his own eyes full-blown
Bent on her. He was twenty, certainly.

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The Pastime of Pleasure: Of dysposycyon the II. parte of rethoryke - (til line 3950)

© Stephen Hawes

Of the merualyos argument bytwene Mars and fortune. Ca. xxvij.
3018 Besyde this toure of olde foundacyon
3019 There was a temple strongly edefyed
3020 To the hygh honoure and reputacyon

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The Battle of Sempach

© Sir Walter Scott

'Twas when among our linden-trees
The bees had housed in swarms,
(And grey-hair'd peasants say that these
Betoken foreign arms),

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Melancholia

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

SILENTLY without my window,

Tapping gently at the pane,

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Elegy XIV. Declining an Invitation To Visit Foreign Countries

© William Shenstone

While others, lost to friendship, lost to love,
Waste their best minutes on a foreign strand,
Be mine, with British nymph or swain to rove,
And court the Genius of my native land.

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter VI - Giuseppe Caponsacchi

© Robert Browning

Again the morning found me. “I will work,
“Tie down my foolish thoughts. Thank God so far!
“I have saved her from a scandal, stopped the tongues
“Had broken else into a cackle and hiss
“Around the noble name. Duty is still
“Wisdom: I have been wise.” So the day wore.

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Marmion: Canto III. - The Inn

© Sir Walter Scott

I.

The livelong day Lord Marmion rode: