Courage poems

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Colin's Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser's Style

© Matthew Prior

Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,

(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)

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Abner And The Widow Jones

© Robert Bloomfield

Well! I'm determin'd; that's enough:-
 Gee, Bayard! move your poor old bones,
I'll take to-morrow, smooth or rough,
 To go and court the Widow Jones.

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The Dreams That Came True

© Jean Ingelow

I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere
  The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,
Rolling and rolling on and resting never,
  While like a phantom fell, behind her pacing
The unfurled flag of night, her shadow drear
  Fled as she fled and hung to her forever.

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At The Making Of Man

© Bliss William Carman

First all the host of Raphael
In liveries of gold,
Lifted the chorus on whose rhythm
The spinning spheres are rolled,–
The Seraphs of the morning calm
Whose hearts are never cold.

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Sonnet On An Edelweiss

© Frances Anne Kemble

Where huge rock buttresses bear up the clouds,

  With all their floating reservoirs of rain;

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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 5.

© William Cowper

Adam.  Restrain, restrain thy step
Whoe'er thou art, nor with thy songs inveigle
Him, who has only cause for ceaseless tears.

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The Contented Man's Morice

© George Wither

False world, thy malice I espie
With what thou hast designed;
And therein with thee to comply,
Who likewise are combined:
But, do thy worst, I thee defie,
Thy mischiefs are confined.

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Pauline

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

To die for what we love! Oh! there is power
In the true heart, and pride, and joy, for this;
It is to live without the vanish'd light
That strength is needed.  -Anon

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The Cemetary Of Eylau

© Victor Marie Hugo

This to my elder brothers, schoolboys gay,

Was told by Uncle Louis on a day;

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The Pastime of Pleasure : The First Part.

© Stephen Hawes

Here begynneth the passe tyme of pleasure.
Ryyght myghty prynce / & redoubted souerayne
Saylynge forthe well / in the shyppe of grace
Ouer the wawes / of this lyfe vncertayne

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Mazeppa

© George Gordon Byron

'Twas after dread Pultowa's day,
  When fortune left the royal Swede--
Around a slaughtered army lay,
  No more to combat and to bleed.

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A Woman’s Apology

© Alfred Austin

In the green darkness of a summer wood,
Wherethro' ran winding ways, a lady stood,
Carved from the air in curving womanhood.

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Andromeda

© Charles Kingsley

Over the sea, past Crete, on the Syrian shore to the southward,

Dwells in the well-tilled lowland a dark-haired AEthiop people,

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Somebody Spoke A Cheering Word

© Edgar Albert Guest

SOMEBODY spoke a cheering word,

Somebody praised his labor,

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The World Is Against Me

© Edgar Albert Guest

"The world is against me," he said with a sigh.

"Somebody stops every scheme that I try.

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Book Third [Residence at Cambridge]

© William Wordsworth

IT was a dreary morning when the wheels
Rolled over a wide plain o'erhung with clouds,
And nothing cheered our way till first we saw
The long-roofed chapel of King's College lift
Turrets and pinnacles in answering files,
Extended high above a dusky grove.

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A Slight Misunderstanding at the Jasper Gate

© Henry Lawson

Oh, do you hear the argument, far up above the skies?

The voice of old Saint Peter, in expostulation rise?

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Truth

© William Cowper

Man, on the dubious waves of error toss'd,

His ship half founder'd, and his compass lost,

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Metamorphoses: Book The Fifth

© Ovid

 The End of the Fifth 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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Irene

© James Russell Lowell

Hers is a spirit deep, and crystal-clear;

Calmly beneath her earnest face it lies,