Poems begining by H

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Hurrah For The Light Artillery!

© Anonymous

On the unstained sward of the gentle slope,
Full of valor and nerved by hope,
The infantry sways like a coming sea;
Why lingers the light artillery?
"Action front!"

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Human Life

© Matthew Arnold

What mortal, when he saw,
Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend,
Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly:
"I have kept uninfringed my nature's law ;
The inly-written chart  thou gavest me,
To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end"?

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Hypnos On Ida

© George Meredith

[Iliad, B. XIV. V. 283]

They then to fountain-abundant Ida, mother of wild beasts,

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Hudibras: Part 2 - Canto II

© Samuel Butler

Quoth RALPHO, Honour's but a word
To swear by only in a Lord:
In other men 'tis but a huff,
To vapour with instead of proof;
That, like a wen, looks big and swells,
Is senseless, and just nothing else.

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Heavenly Wisdom

© John Logan

O Happy is the man who hears
Instruction's warning voice,
And who celestial wisdom makes
His early, only choice.

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Home--Coming

© Robert Laurence Binyon

From the howl of the wind
As I opened the door
And entered, the firelight
Was soft on the floor.

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Hymn

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Then, rob'd in darkness and in clouds,
That solemn veil thy glory shrouds;
Chaos and night thy dark pavilion form;
Thy spirit on the whirlwind rides,
Impels the unresisting tides,
Glares in the lightning, rushes in the storm!

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Humming-Bird

© Padraic Colum

UP from the navel of the world,
Where Cuzco has her founts of fire,
The passer of the Gulf he comes.

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Homer

© Andrew Lang

No wiser we than men of heretofore
  To find thy sacred fountains guarded fast;
Enough, thy flood makes green our human shore,
  As Nilus Egypt, rolling down his vast
His fertile flood, that murmurs evermore
  Of gods dethroned, and empires in the past.

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Hush is Our Lust

© James Baker



In my heart I've found my lust

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How Long

© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
The only thing it can take from you is your body.
Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.

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Homer's Battle Of The Frogs And Mice. Book III

© Thomas Parnell

But down Olympus to the Western Seas,
Far-shooting Phœbus drove with fainter Rays,
And a whole War (so Jove ordain'd) begun,
Was fought, and ceas'd, in one revolving Sun.

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Hymn to the Dairymaids on Beacon Street

© Christopher Morley

Sweetly solemn see them stand,

Spinning churns on either hand,

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Hymn For The Celebration Of Emancipation At Newburyport

© John Greenleaf Whittier

NOT unto us who did but seek
The word that burned within to speak,
Not unto us this day belong
The triumph and exultant song.

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"How funny it would be if dreamy I"

© Lesbia Harford

How funny it would be if dreamy I
Should leave one book behind me when I die
And that a book of Law—this silly thing
Just written for the money it will bring.
I do hope, when it's finished, I'll have time
For other books and better spurts of rhyme.

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Hermann And Dorothea - VIII. Melpomene

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But she conceal'd the pain which she felt, and jestingly spoke thus
"It betokens misfortune,--so scrupulous people inform us,--
For the foot to give way on entering a house, near the threshold.
I should have wish'd, in truth, for a sign of some happier omen!
Let us tarry a little, for fear your parents should blame you
For their limping servant, and you should be thought a bad landlord."

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Hope On

© Charles Harpur

Power's a cheat, success but trying,

 Even pleasure bears a sting;

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How Lucy Backslid

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

De times is mighty stirrin' 'mong de people up ouah way,
  Dey 'sputin' an' dey argyin' an' fussin' night an' day;
  An' all dis monst'ous trouble dat hit meks me tiahed to tell
  Is 'bout dat Lucy Jackson dat was sich a mighty belle.

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Hattie House

© Julia A Moore


Come all kind friends, wherever you may be,
 Come listen to what I say,
It's of a little girl that was pleasant to see,
 And she died while out doors at play.

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Heriot's Ford

© Rudyard Kipling

"What's that that hirples at my side?"
The foe that you must fight, my lord.
"That rides as fast as I can ride?"
The shadow of your might, my lord.