Good poems

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The Wanderer’s Return

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

An old heart's mourning is a hideous thing,
And weeds upon an aged weeper cling
Like night upon a grave. The city there,
Gaunt as a woman who has once been fair,

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Brave Alum Bey

© William Schwenck Gilbert

Oh, big was the bosom of brave ALUM BEY,
And also the region that under it lay,
In safety and peril remarkably cool,
And he dwelt on the banks of the river Stamboul.

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Nobility Of Goodness

© Charles Kingsley

  My fairest child, I have no song to give you;

  No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray;

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The Child-Mother

© George MacDonald

Heavily slumbered noonday bright
Upon the lone field, glory-dight,
A burnished grassy sea:
The child, in gorgeous golden hours,
Through heaven-descended starry flowers,
Went walking on the lea.

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A More Ancient Mariner

© Bliss William Carman

The swarthy bee is a buccaneer,
A burly velveted rover,
Who loves the booming wind in his ear
As he sails the seas of clover.

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Sonnett - VI

© James Russell Lowell

Great Truths are portions of the soul of man;

Great souls are portions of Eternity;

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Dirty Jim

© Jane Taylor

THERE was one little Jim,
'Tis reported of him,
And must be to his lasting disgrace,
That he never was seen
With hands at all clean,
Nor yet ever clean was his face. . . .

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Duerme Tranquilo With Translation

© Alfonsina Storni

Dijiste la palabra que enamora
A mis oídos. Ya olvidaste. Bueno.
Duerme tranquilo. Debe estar sereno
Y hermoso el rostro tuyo a toda hora.

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Rhymed Plea For Tolerance - Dialogue I

© John Kenyon

  Yet the heart vents still more indignant blame,
  Where Lawgivers their sullen codes proclaim,
  And idly would constrain the creed within,
  As if Belief were Crime, and Tolerance—Sin.

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Wordsworth

© James Kenneth Stephen

Two voices are there: one is of the deep;
It learns the storm cloud's thunderous melody,
Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea,
Now birdlike pipes, now closes soft in sleep;

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English Eclogues V - The Witch

© Robert Southey


FATHER.
  'Tis rare good luck;
  I would have gladly given a crown for one
  If t'would have done as well. But where did'st find it?

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The Whistler

© Virna Sheard

Throughout the sunny day he whistled on his way--

  Oh high and low, and gay and sweet,

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The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 4

© Publius Vergilius Maro

BUT anxious cares already seiz’d the queen:  

She fed within her veins a flame unseen;  

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The Depths Of The Sea

© Edith Nesbit

FOR A PICTURE BY E. BURNE JONES


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Measure For Measure

© Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

By O—r K—m.

  Wake! for the closed Pavilion doors have kept

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The Australiad

© Mary Hannay Foott

Meanwhile the hardy Dutchmen came,—as ancient charts attest,—
Hartog, and Nuyts, and Carpenter, and Tasman, and the rest,
But found not forests rich in spice, nor market for their wares,
Nor servile tribes to toil o’ertasked ’mid pestilential airs,—
And deemed it scarce worth while to claim so poor a continent,
But with their slumberous tropic isles thenceforward were content.

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Prior To Miss Belle's Appearance

© James Whitcomb Riley

What makes you come HERE fer, Mister,

  So much to our house?--SAY?

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Mowgli's Brothers

© Rudyard Kipling

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night

That Mang the Bat sets free-

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The Reformer

© John Greenleaf Whittier

ALL grim and soiled and brown with tan,
I saw a Strong One, in his wrath,
Smiting the godless shrines of man
Along his path.

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The Cynotaph

© Richard Harris Barham

Poor Tray charmant!
Poor Tray de mon Ami!
- Dog-bury, and Vergers.