Great poems

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Madrigal In Time Of War

© John Frederick Nims

Beside the rivers of the midnight town
Where four-foot couples love and paupers drown,
Shots of quick hell we took, our final kiss,
The great and swinging bridge a bower for this.

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Certain Books Of Virgil's AEneis: Book II

© Henry Howard

BOOK II

They whisted all, with fixed face attent,

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Prelude

© George Wither

(From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)

Seest thou not, in clearest days,

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Orpheus

© Emma Lazarus

ORPHEUS.
LAUGHTER and dance, and sounds of harp and lyre,
Piping of flutes, singing of festal songs,
Ribbons of flame from flaunting torches, dulled

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The Passionate Pilgrim

© William Shakespeare

Her lips to mine how often hath she joined,
Between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing!
How many tales to please me bath she coined,
Dreading my love, the loss thereof still fearing!
  Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings,
  Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were jestings.

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Thanksgiving

© James Whitcomb Riley

Let us be thankful--not only because
  Since last our universal thanks were told
  We have grown greater in the world's applause,
  And fortune's newer smiles surpass the old--

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The Immortality Of Rome

© Richard Monckton Milnes

``Urbi et Orbi,''--mystic euphony,
What depth of Christian meaning lies in Thee!
How, from this world apart, this world above,
Selected by a special will of Love,

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When The Great Gray Ships Come In

© Guy Wetmore Carryl

To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea,

On winds and tides the gospel rides that the furthermost isles are free;

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The Toll-Man’s Daughter

© Madison Julius Cawein

Once more the June with her great moon

  Poured harvest o'er the golden fields;

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The Rhyme Of Triangular Tommy

© Carolyn Wells

Triangular Tilly went smilingly by,
With a glance that was friendly, but just a bit shy.
And Tom so admired her that after she passed,
A backward look over his shoulder he cast.
And he said, "Though I think many girls are but silly,
I really admire that Triangular Tilly."

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Runnamede, A Tragedy. Prologue

© John Logan

Yet lost to fame is virtue's orient reign;
The patriot lived, the hero died in vain,
Dark night descended o'er the human day,
And wiped the glory of the world away:
Whirled round the gulf, the acts of time were tost,
Then in the vast abyss for ever lost.

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Renunciation

© Emily Dickinson

Renunciation - is a piercing Virtue -

The letting go

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Hampton Beach

© John Greenleaf Whittier

 On—on—we tread with loose-flung rein
 Our seaward way,
 Through dark-green fields and blossoming grain,
 Where the wild brier-rose skirts the lane,
And bends above our heads the flowering locust spray.

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The Moonmen

© Madison Julius Cawein

I stood in the forest on HURON HILL

  When the night was old and the world was still.

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One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part III

© Madison Julius Cawein

  I seem to see her still; to see
  That dim blue room. Her perfume comes
  From lavender folds draped dreamily--
  One blossom of brocaded blooms--
  Some stuff of orient looms.

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AN EPITAPH On his most honoured Friend Richard Earl of Dorset

© Henry King

Let no profane ignoble foot tread neer
This hallow'd peece of earth, Dorset lies here.
A small sad relique of a noble spirit,
Free as the air, and ample as his merit;

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A Sermon

© Ada Cambridge

We have heard many sermons, you and I,
 And many more may hear,
When sitting quiet in cathedral nave,
With folded palms and faces meek and grave;-
 But few like this one, dear.

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Metric Figure

© William Carlos Williams

There is a bird in the poplars!

It is the sun!

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A Story Of Doom: Book VIII.

© Jean Ingelow

Then one ran, crying, while Niloiya wrought,
"The Master cometh!" and she went within
To adorn herself for meeting him. And Shem
Went forth and talked with Japhet in the field,
And said, "Is it well, my brother?" He replied,
"Well! and, I pray you, is it well at home?"

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Moonset

© Sir Henry Newbolt

Past seven o'clock: time to be gone;
Twelfth-night's over and dawn shivering up:
A hasty cut of the loaf, a steaming cup,
Down to the door, and there is Coachman John.