Great poems

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The World-Soul

© Ralph Waldo Emerson

Still, still the secret presses,
 The nearing clouds draw down,
The crimson morning flames into
 The fopperies of the town.
Within, without, the idle earth
 Stars weave eternal rings,

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Patient Mercy Jones

© James Thomas Fields

Let us venerate the bones
Of patient Mercy Jones,
Who lies underneath these stones.

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The Wonder-Working Magician - Act I

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

TO THE MEMORY OF
SHELLEY,
WHOSE ADMIRATION FOR
"THE LIGHT AND ODOUR OF THE FLOWERY AND STARRY AUTOS"
IS THE HIGHEST TRIBUTE TO THE BEAUTY OF
CALDERON'S POETRY,

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The Lady Of La Garaye - Part II

© Caroline Norton

A FIRST walk after sickness: the sweet breeze
That murmurs welcome in the bending trees,
When the cold shadowy foe of life departs,
And the warm blood flows freely through our hearts:

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Five Lines

© Nazim Hikmet

To overcome lies in the heart, in the streets, in the books
from the lullabies of the mothers
to the news report that the speaker reads,
understanding, my love, what a great joy it is,
to understand what is gone and what is on the way.

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Memory's River

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

In Nature's bright blossoms not always reposes

That strange subtle essence more rare than their bloom,

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Route March

© Charles Hamilton Sorley

All the hills and vales along

Earth is bursting into song,

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Poem Of Poverty

© Millosh Gjergj Nikolla

Poverty's child is raised in the shadows
Of great mansions, too high for imploring voices to reach
To disturb the peace and quiet of the lords
Sleeping in blissful beds beside their ladies.

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Azolan.

© Voltaire

AT VILLAGE lived, in days of yore,

A youth bred in Mahomet's lore;

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The Old Water Mill

© Madison Julius Cawein

Wild ridge on ridge the wooded hills arise,

Between whose breezy vistas gulfs of skies

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Love's Gifts

© Marian Osborne

BELOVED, can I make return to thee

For all the gifts which thy rich heart doth hold,

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Italy : 42. Naples

© Samuel Rogers

This region, surely, is not of the earth.
Was it not dropt from heaven?  Not a grove,
Citron or pine or cedar, not a grot
Sea-worn and mantled with a gadding vine,

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Nathan The Wise - Act III

© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  And when this moment comes,
And when this warmest inmost of my wishes
Shall be fulfilled, what then? what then?

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The Glory Of Age

© Edgar Albert Guest

"What is the glory of age?" I said,
  "A hoard of gold and a few dear friends?
  When you've reached the day that you look ahead
  And see the place where your journey ends,
  When Time has robbed you of youthful might--
  What is the secret of your delight?"

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1919

© Anonymous

Before the threat
And dismal cold gray
of mourning
Came the sun.

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The Lady A. L. My Asylum In A Great Exteremity.

© Richard Lovelace

  Let me leape in againe! and by that fall
Bring me to my first woe, so cancel all:
Ah! 's this a quitting of the debt you owe,
To crush her and her goodnesse at one blowe?
  Defend me from so foule impiety,
Would make friends grieve, and furies weep to see.

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King Billy's Skull.

© James Brunton Stephens

THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;

The time — oh, any time of the year

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Metamorphoses: Book The Ninth

© Ovid

 The End of the Ninth Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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The Rose In The Deeps Of His Heart

© William Butler Yeats

All things uncomely and broken,
All things worn-out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway,
The creak of a lumbering cart,

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With My Fatherland

© Hovhannes Toumanian

Your wounds are countless, O my land, yet still alive are you.
The cherished words we have waited for are already breaking through
Your lips compressed with sorrow; we believe that on the way
Destined to you by God and Fate-those words you'll find and say.
We wait with fervour for your call-anon, Anon we hear it;
You will become a promised land, free both, in flesh and spirit,