Courage poems

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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - part 01

© Torquato Tasso

THE ARGUMENT.

Argantes calls the Christians out to just:

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Sonnet

© James Weldon Johnson

My heart be brave, and do not falter so, 

Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail. 

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Three Women

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

My love is young, so young;
Young is her cheek, and her throat,
And life is a song to be sung
With love the word for each note.

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The Author

© Charles Churchill

Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite,

And cruel parents teach, to read and write!

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A Map to the Next World

© Joy Harjo

for Desiray Kierra Chee
In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for
those who would climb through the hole in the sky.

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The Bad Old Days

© Kenneth Rexroth

The summer of nineteen eighteen

I read The Jungle and The

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Care of Birds for their Young

© James Thomson

As thus the patient dam assiduous sits,
Not to be tempted from her tender task,
Or by sharp hunger, or by smooth delight,
Tho' the whole loosen'd spring around her blows,

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John Barleycorn: A Ballad

© Robert Burns

There was three kings unto the east,
Three kings both great and high,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.

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Walking Parker Home

© Bob Kaufman

Sweet beats of jazz impaled on slivers of wind

Kansas Black Morning/ First Horn Eyes/

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Rokeby: Canto IV.

© Sir Walter Scott

I.

When Denmark's raven soar'd on high,

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Paradise Lost: Book IV

© Patrick Kavanagh

"Which of those rebel Spirits adjudg'd to Hell
Com'st thou, escap'd thy prison? and, transform'd,
Why satt'st thou like an enemy in wait,
Here watching at the head of these that sleep?"

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Elegy for a Soldier

© Marilyn Hacker

You, who stood alone in the tall bay window
of a Brooklyn brownstone, conjuring morning
with free-flying words, knew the power, terror
in words, in flying;

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No Labor-Saving Machine

© Walt Whitman

NO labor-saving machine,

Nor discovery have I made;

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Fears In Solitude. Written In April, 1798, During The Alarm Of An Invasion

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A green and silent spot, amid the hills,
A small and silent dell!  O'er stiller place
No singing sky-lark ever poised himself.
The hills are heathy, save that swelling slope,

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Exultation

© Emma Lazarus

BEHOLD, I walked abroad at early morning,
The fields of June were bathed in dew and lustre,
The hills were clad with light as with a garment.

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Schemhammphorasch

© Rose Terry Cooke

‘This is the key which was given by the angel Michael to Pali, and by Pali to Moses. If “thou canst read it, then shalt thou understand the words of men, … the whistling of birds, the language of date-trees, the unity of hearts, ... nay, even the thoughts of the rains.”’
Gleanings after the Talmud

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Interrupted Meditation

© Robert Hass

Little green involute fronds of fern at creekside.

And the sinewy clear water rushing over creekstone

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The Mariner's Cave

© Jean Ingelow

Once on a time there walked a mariner,
 That had been shipwrecked;-on a lonely shore,
And the green water made a restless stir,
 And a great flock of mews sped on before.
He had nor food nor shelter, for the tide
Rose on the one, and cliffs on the other side.

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A Supermarket in California

© Allen Ginsberg

What thoughts I have of you tonight Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
 In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
 What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
 I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.