Great poems

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The Vine

© James Thomson

THE wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long:

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The Centerarian's Story

© Walt Whitman

GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary;
The hill-top is nigh-but a few steps, (make room, gentlemen
Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and
  extra years;
You can walk, old man, though your eyes are almost done;
Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.

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The Seasons: Winter

© James Thomson

OH! bear me then to high, embowering, Shades;
To twilight Groves, and visionary Vales;
To weeping Grottos, and to hoary Caves;
Where Angel-Forms are seen, and Voices heard,
Sigh'd in low Whispers, that abstract the Soul,
From outward Sense, far into Worlds remote.

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Julian and Maddalo : A Conversation

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I rode one evening with Count Maddalo
Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow
Of Adria towards Venice: a bare strand
Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand,

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Gifts

© James Thomson

GIVE a man a horse he can ride,
Give a man a boat he can sail;
And his rank and wealth, his strength and health,
On sea nor shore shall fail.

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Farewell to Ravelrig

© James Thomson

Sweet Ravelrig, I ne'er could part
From thee, but wi' a dowie heart.
When I think on the happy days
I spent in youth about your braes,

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Afternoon At A Parsonage

© Jean Ingelow

Preface.
What wonder man should fail to stay
  A nursling wafted from above,
The growth celestial come astray,
  That tender growth whose name is Love!

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The Dirge of Wallace

© Thomas Campbell

When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear,
The debt of his nature did pay,
T' was Edward, the cruel, had reason to fear,
And cause to be struck with dismay.

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Athens: An Ode

© Algernon Charles Swinburne

ERE from under earth again like fire the violet kindle,  [Str. I.

  Ere the holy buds and hoar on olive-branches bloom,

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Ode to the Memory of Burns

© Thomas Campbell

Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er,
Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume
Her wings of immortality ;
Suspend thy harp in happier sphere,
And with thine influence illume
The gladness of our jubilee.

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Gertrude of Wyoming

© Thomas Campbell

PART IOn Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming!
Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall,
And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring,
Of what thy gentle people did befall;

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The Legend of St. Austin and the Child

© Katharine Tynan

St. Austin, going in thought
Along the sea-sands gray,
Into another world was caught,
And Carthage far away.

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Samson And Delilah

© Edgar Lee Masters

Because thou wast most delicate,
A woman fair for men to see,
The earth did compass thy estate,
Thou didst hold life and death in fee,
And every soul did bend the knee.

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XI: Epode

© Benjamin Jonson

Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state,

 Is vertue, and not Fate:

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The Doves

© Katharine Tynan

The house where I was born,
Where I was young and gay,
Grows old amid its corn,
Amid its scented hay.

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The Children of Lir

© Katharine Tynan

Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses;
Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool;
Overhead the sunset fire and flame amasses
And the moon to eastward rises pale and cool.

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Alfred. Book IV.

© Henry James Pye

  "I come," the stranger said, "from fields of fame,
  A Saxon born, and Aribert my name.
  I come from Devon's shores, where Devon's lord
  Waves o'er the prostrate Dane the British sword.—
  Freedom might yet revisit Britain's coast,
  Did Alfred live to lead her victor host."

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The Files

© Rudyard Kipling

Files

The Files -

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Easter

© Katharine Tynan

Bring flowers to strew His way,
Yea, sing, make holiday;
Bid young lambs leap,
And earth laugh after sleep.

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Blessings

© Katharine Tynan

God bless the little orchard brown
Where the sap stirs these quickening days.
Soon in a white and rosy gown
The trees will give great praise.