Knowledge poems

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Idyll XXII. The Sons of Leda

© Theocritus

  He spoke, and clutched a hollow shell, and blew
  His clarion. Straightway to the shadowy pine
  Clustering they came, as loud it pealed and long,
  Bebrycia's bearded sons; and Castor too,
  The peerless in the lists, went forth and called
  From the Magnesian ship the Heroes all.

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Disenchanted

© Augusta Davies Webster

Alas, I thought this forest must be true,

 And would not change because of my changed eyes;

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Elm

© Sylvia Plath

I know the bottom, she says.  I know it with my great tap root;
 It is what you fear.
 I do not fear it: I have been there.

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The Quaker Alumni

© John Greenleaf Whittier

From the well-springs of Hudson, the sea-cliffs of Maine,
Grave men, sober matrons, you gather again;
And, with hearts warmer grown as your heads grow more cool,
Play over the old game of going to school.

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Moderation In Diet

© Charles Lamb

The drunkard's sin, excess in wine,
 Which reason drowns, and health destroys,
As yet no failing is of thine,
 Dear Jim; strong drink's not given to boys.

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The Nile

© Sir Henry Newbolt

Out of the unknown South,

Through the dark lands of drouth,

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An Epistle To A Friend

© Samuel Rogers

When, with a Reaumur's skill, thy curious mind
Has class'd the insect-tribes of human-kind,
Each with its busy hum, or gilded wing,
Its subtle, web-work, or its venom'd sting;

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The Maid-Martyr

© Jean Ingelow

Her face, O! it was wonderful to me,
There was not in it what I look'd for-no,
I never saw a maid go to her death,
How should I dream that face and the dumb soul?

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Book Fourteenth [conclusion]

© William Wordsworth

In one of those excursions (may they ne'er

Fade from remembrance!) through the Northern tracts

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The Gift

© Bliss William Carman

I SAID to Life, "How comes it,
With all this wealth in store,
Of beauty, joy, and knowledge,
Thy cry is still for more?

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Our Country

© Edgar Albert Guest

God grant that we shall never see

  Our country slave to lust and greed;

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The Ghost - Book I

© Charles Churchill

With eager search to dart the soul,

Curiously vain, from pole to pole,

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Inscriptions In The Ground Of Coleorton, The Seat Of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Leicestershire

© William Wordsworth

THE embowering rose, the acacia, and the pine,
Will not unwillingly their place resign;
If but the Cedar thrive that near them stands,
Planted by Beaumont's and by 's hands.

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Decius Brutus, On The Coast Of Portugal

© Richard Monckton Milnes

Never did Day, her heat and trouble o'er,
Proclaim herself more blest,
Than when, beside that Lusitanian shore,
She wooed herself to rest:

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The World In The House

© Jane Taylor

  Regions of intellect ! serenely fair,
Hence let us rise, and breathe your purer air.
--There shine the stars ! one intellectual glance
At that bright host,--on yon sublime expanse,
Might prove a cure ;--well, say they, let them shine
With all our hearts,--but let us dress and dine.

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The Golden Apple

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

She saw on the far bank a golden apple,

A glowing apple, poor little Eve,

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The Princess (part 7)

© Alfred Tennyson

'If you be, what I think you, some sweet dream,
I would but ask you to fulfil yourself:
But if you be that Ida whom I knew,
I ask you nothing:  only, if a dream,
Sweet dream, be perfect.  I shall die tonight.
Stoop down and seem to kiss me ere I die.'

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My Play Is Done

© Swami Vivekananda

Ever rising, ever falling with the waves of time, still rolling on I go

From fleeting scene to scene ephemeral, with life's currents' ebb and flow.