Courage poems

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Hymns to the Night : 5

© Novalis

In ancient times, over the widespread families of men an iron Fate ruled with dumb force. A gloomy oppression swathed their heavy souls - the earth was boundless - the abode of the gods and their home. From eternal ages stood its mysterious structure. Beyond the red hills of the morning, in the sacred bosom of the sea, dwelt the sun, the all-enkindling, living Light. An aged giant upbore the blissful world. Fast beneath mountains lay the first-born sons of mother Earth. Helpless in their destroying fury against the new, glorious race of gods, and their kindred, glad-hearted men. The ocean's dark green abyss was the lap of a goddess. In crystal grottos revelled a luxuriant folk. Rivers, trees, flowers, and beasts had human wits. Sweeter tasted the wine - poured out by Youth-abundance - a god in the grape-clusters - a loving, motherly goddess upgrew in the full golden sheaves - love's sacred inebriation was a sweet worship of the fairest of the god-ladies - Life rustled through the centuries like one spring-time, an ever-variegated festival of heaven-children and earth-dwellers. All races childlike adored the ethereal, thousand-fold flame as the one sublimest thing in the world. There was but one notion, a horrible dream-shape -


That fearsome to the merry tables strode,

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The Star's Monument

© Jean Ingelow

IN THE CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME.

(_He thinks._)

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Jhansi Ki Rani (With English Translation)

© Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

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With valor in a grand festival, she got married in Jhansi,
After her marriage, Laxmibai came to Jhansi as a queen with shower of joy,
A grand celebration took place in the royal palace of Jhansi. That was a good luck for Bandelos that she came to Jhansi,
That was as Chitra met with Arjun or Shiv had got his beloved Bhavani (Durga).
From the mouths of the Bandelas and the Harbolas (Religious singers of Bandelkhand), we heard the tale of the courage of the Queen of Jhansi relating how gallantly she fought like a man against the British intruders: such was the Queen of Jhansi.

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All Souls' Night

© William Butler Yeats

MIDNIGHT has come, and the great Christ Church Bell

And may a lesser bell sound through the room;

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A Dream

© Thomas Parnell

& then With raptures in her mouth she fled
the Cloud (for on a cloud she seemd to tread)
its curles unfolded & around her spread
My downy rest the warmth of fancy broke
& when my thoughts grew settled thus I spoke

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A Letter From Palestine

© Alice Guerin Crist


A letter from “The East” it came today,

And all the house is lightened of its gloom:

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Australia To England

© John Farrell

What of the years of Englishmen?

  What have they brought of growth and grace

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The Recluse - Book First

© William Wordsworth

HOME AT GRASMERE
ONCE to the verge of yon steep barrier came
A roving school-boy; what the adventurer's age
Hath now escaped his memory--but the hour,

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Another Yankee Doodle

© Anonymous

Yankee Doodle had a mind

To whip the Southern traitors,

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Don Juan: Dedication

© Lord Byron

Difficile est proprie communia dicere
HOR. Epist. ad Pison

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Paradise Lost: Book IX (1674)

© Patrick Kavanagh

To whom the Virgin Majestie of Eve,
As one who loves, and some unkindness meets,
With sweet austeer composure thus reply'd,

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Beowulf

© Charles Baudelaire

LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,

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The Dream

© Caroline Norton

Ah! bless'd are they for whom 'mid all their pains
That faithful and unalter'd love remains;
Who, Life wreck'd round them,--hunted from their rest,--
And, by all else forsaken or distress'd,--
Claim, in one heart, their sanctuary and shrine--
As I, my Mother, claim'd my place in thine!

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Tristram And Iseult

© Matthew Arnold

 Tristram. Is she not come? The messenger was sure—
Prop me upon the pillows once again—
Raise me, my page! this cannot long endure.
—Christ, what a night! how the sleet whips the pane!
 What lights will those out to the northward be?

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The Idols

© Robert Laurence Binyon


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The Forests of the Night awaken blind in heat
Of black stupor; and stirring in its deep retreat,
I hear the heart of Darkness slowly beat and beat.

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Grand Rapids Cricket Club

© Julia A Moore

In Grand Rapids is a handsome club,

  Of men that cricket play,

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To Wordsworth

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Thine is a strain to read among the hills,
 The old and full of voices;–by the source
Of some free stream, whose gladdening presence fills
 The solitude with sound; for in its course
Even such is thy deep song, that seems a part
Of those high scenes, a fountain from their heart.

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Michael: A Pastoral Poem

© William Wordsworth


  Thus in his Father's sight the Boy grew up:
 And now, when he had reached his eighteenth year,
 He was his comfort and his daily hope.

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My Mother-Land

© Paul Hamilton Hayne


Death! What of death?--
Can he who once drew honorable breath
In liberty's pure sphere,
Foster a sensual fear,
When death and slavery meet him face to face,

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To the Right Honourable The Countess Dowager Of Devonshire, On A Piece Of Wiessen's

© Matthew Prior

Wiessen and nature held a long contest

If she created or he painted best;