Dreams poems

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Afar In The Desert

© Thomas Pringle

Afar in the Desert I love to ride,

  With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:

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The Foray Of Con O’Donnell. A.D. 1495

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

The evening shadows sweetly fall

Along the hills of Donegal,

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The Defenders

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

Leave me my dreams, and I shall not repine;

Youth's eager hours, love's restless holiday.

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Love of Fame, The Universal Passion (excerpt)

© Edward Young

Man's rich with little, were his judgment true;

  Nature is frugal, and her wants are few;

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The Day Of The Daughter Of Hades

© George Meredith

He tells it, who knew the law
Upon mortals:  he stood alive
Declaring that this he saw:
He could see, and survive.

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The Convocation: A Poem

© Richard Savage


The Pagan prey on slaughter'd Wretches Fates,
The Romish fatten on the best Estates,
The British stain what Heav'n has right confest,
And Sectaries the Scriptures falsly wrest.

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For A Child

© Harriet Monroe

Still he lies,
Pale, wan, and strangely wise.
Under the white coverlet
He lies here sleeping yet,
Though it is day,
Though through the window flares the gaudy day.

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The Beggar Maid

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

All on a golden morning the beggar maid did go

To gather branch and berry, the hazel-nut and sloe.

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter IX - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius

© Robert Browning

  Thus
Would I defend the step,—were the thing true
Which is a fable,—see my former speech,—
That Guido slept (who never slept a wink)
Through treachery, an opiate from his wife,
Who not so much as knew what opiates mean.

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The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 8

© Publius Vergilius Maro

WHEN Turnus had assembled all his pow’rs,  

His standard planted on Laurentum’s tow’rs;  

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The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto X.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

II The Devices
  Love, kiss'd by Wisdom, wakes twice Love,
  And Wisdom is, thro' loving, wise.
  Let Dove and Snake, and Snake and Dove,
  This Wisdom's be, that Love's device.

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Moly

© Madison Julius Cawein

And these things then shall keep me company:
The elfins of the dew; the spirit of laughter
Who haunts the wind; the god of melody
Who sings within the stream, that reaches after

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The Substitute

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

How say'st, thou? die to-morrrow? Oh! my friend!
The bitter, bitter doom!
What hast thou done to tempt this ghastly end--
This death of shame and gloom?

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Non Dolet!

© Edith Wharton

So weary a world it lies, forlorn of day,
And yet not wholly dark,
Since evermore some soul that missed the mark
Calls back to those agrope
In the mad maze of hope,
“Courage, my brothers—I have found the way!”

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Disappointment

© Robert Laurence Binyon

And were they but for this, those passionate schemes
Of joy, that I have nursed? indeed for this
That longings, day and night, have filled my dreams?
Now it has come, the hour of bliss,
How different it seems!

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The Demon Of The Study

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The Brownie sits in the Scotchman's room,
And eats his meat and drinks his ale,
And beats the maid with her unused broom,
And the lazy lout with his idle flail;
But he sweeps the floor and threshes the corn,
And hies him away ere the break of dawn.

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Flotsam

© Lola Ridge

Nothing to guess at…
Save the darkness above
Crouching like a great cat.

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To My Father (Translated From Milton)

© William Cowper

Oh that Pieria's spring would thro' my breast

Pour its inspiring influence, and rush

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Since Shade Relents

© Paul Verlaine

Since shade relents, since 'tis indeed the day,
  Since hope I long had deemed forever flown,
Wings back to me that call on her and pray,
  Since so much joy consents to be my own,-

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Baby's Dreams

© Isabella Valancy Crawford

I SAW a fairy twine,

 Of star-white jessamine,