Knowledge poems

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A Dialogue Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure

© Andrew Marvell

Soul
I sup above, and cannot stay
To bait so long upon the way.

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From the “Commemoration Ode”

© Harriet Monroe

  WASHINGTON

WHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time,

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Tom May's Death

© Andrew Marvell

As one put drunk into the Packet-boat,
Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't.
But was amaz'd on the Elysian side,
And with an Eye uncertain, gazing wide,

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Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax

© Andrew Marvell

Within this sober Frame expect
Work of no Forrain Architect;
That unto Caves the Quarries drew,
And Forrests did to Pastures hew;

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A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body

© Andrew Marvell

Soul
O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise
A Soul inslav'd so many wayes?
With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd stands

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R.t.s.l. (1917-1977)

© Derek Walcott

As for that other thing
which comes when the eyelid is glazed
and the wax gleam
from the unwrinkled forehead
asks no more questions
of the dry mouth,

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Wishing

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do.
Set a watch upon your actions,
Keep them always straight and true.

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Alive Together

© Lisel Mueller

Speaking of marvels, I am alive
together with you, when I might have been
alive with anyone under the sun,
when I might have been Abelard's woman

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Folly

© Joyce Kilmer

(For A. K. K.)What distant mountains thrill and glow
Beneath our Lady Folly's tread?
Why has she left us, wise in woe,
Shrewd, practical, uncomforted?

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One Who Loved Nature

© Madison Julius Cawein

He was most gentle, good, and wise;
A simpler heart earth never saw:
His soul looked softly from his eyes,
And in his speech were love and awe.

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The Voyage Of St. Brendan A.D. 545 - The Vocation

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

O Ita, mother of my heart and mind--
My nourisher, my fosterer, my friend,
Who taught me first to God's great will resigned,
Before his shining altar-steps to bend;

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The Search After Happiness. A Pastoral Drama

© Hannah More

"To rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the female breast." ~Thomson.

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An Hymn upon St. Bartholomew's Day

© Thomas Traherne

What powerful Spirit lives within!  

 What active Angel doth inhabit here!  

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Hope

© Anne Kingsmill Finch

The Tree of Knowledge we in Eden prov'd;
The Tree of Life was thence to Heav'n remov'd:
Hope is the growth of Earth, the only Plant,
Which either Heav'n, or Paradise cou'd want.

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An Apology for my fearfull temper

© Anne Kingsmill Finch

Tis true of courage I'm no mistress
No Boadicia nor Thalestriss
Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter
For such a Soul as Cato's Daughter

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The Vision Of The Maid Of Orleans - The Second Book

© Robert Southey

She spake, and lo! celestial radiance beam'd

Amid the air, such odors wafting now

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The Human Tragedy ACT III

© Alfred Austin

Personages:
  Godfrid-
  Gilbert-
  Miriam-
  Olympia.

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Bride of Abydos, The

© Lord Byron

"Had we never loved so kindly,
Had we never loved so blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted." — Burns

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The Bride of Abydos

© Lord Byron

"Had we never loved so kindly,
Had we never loved so blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted." — Burns

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Lara

© Lord Byron

Proud Otho on the instant, reddening, threw
His glove on earth, and forth his sabre flew.
"The last alternative befits me best,
And thus I answer for mine absent guest."