Poems begining by G
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© Arthur Symons
The wind shook not in grass nor leaf,
I had lain down with Perfect Grief,
Not yet had come that angry thief
Night that gives Passion some relief.
Gigantic daughter of the West,
© Alfred Tennyson
Gigantic daughter of the West,
We drink to thee across the flood,
Gideon's Fleece
© John Newton
The signs which God to Gideon gave,
His holy Sovereignty made known;
That He alone has pow'r to save,
And claims the glory as his own.
Georgie Sails To-Morrow!
© Henry Clay Work
For sixteen years, a merry, laughing maiden,
I have warbl'd only songs of joy;
And in this heart, so very lightly laden,
Happy thoughts have ever found employ.
But times will change! and now there comes a sorrow,
Which bids me ev'ry joy resign:
Girl To A Soldier On leave
© Isaac Rosenberg
Girl To A Soldier On Leave
Love! You love me your eyes
Have looked through death at mine.
You have tempted a grave too much
I let you I repine.
Ghazal 3
© Daagh Dehlvi
na maza hai dushmani main na hai lutf dosti main
koi gair gair hota koi yar yar hota
Great City
© Harold Monro
When all the lamps were lighted in the town
I passed into the street ways and I watched,
Wakeful, almost happy,
And half the night I wandered in the street.
General Grant -- The Hero Of The War
© George Moses Horton
Brave Grant, thou hero of the war,
Thou art the emblem of the morning star,
Grant At Rest-- August 8, 1885
© James Whitcomb Riley
Sir Launcelot rode overthwart and endlong in a wide forest, and held no
path but as wild adventure led him... And he returned and came again to his
horse, and took off his saddle and his bridle, and let him pasture; and
unlaced his helm, and ungirdled his sword, and laid him down to sleep upon
his shield before the cross. --Age of Chivalary
Grammarye
© John Kenyon
"Argantyr! awakeawake
Hervor bids thy slumbers fly.
Magic chords around thee break;
Argantyr! replyreply."
Golf Steals Our Youth
© Norman Rowland Gale
Have you seen the golfers airy
Prancing forth to their vagary,
Gentildonna
© Ezra Pound
She passed and left no quiver in the veins, who now
Moving among the trees, and clinging
in the air she severed,
Fanning the grass she walked on then, endures:
Grey olive leaves beneath a rain-cold sky.
Grey Eyes.
© Arthur Henry Adams
SHE glanced across the path to me,
Grey eyes!
Her looks were kisses plain to see.
I gave her glances back to her
Grand Chorus Of Birds
© Aristophanes
Come on then, ye dwellers by nature in darkness, and like to the
leaves' generations,
Green Rock, Winthrop Bay
© Sylvia Plath
No lame excuses can gloss over
Barge-tar clotted at the tide-line, the wrecked pier.
I should have known better.
Goya
© Conrad Aiken
Goya drew a pig on a wall.
The five-year-old hairdressers son
Saw, graved on a silver tray,
The lion; and sunsets were begun.