Life poems

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To Lysander

© Aphra Behn

(On some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart than ‘twas worth.)
  I
Take back that Heart, you with such Caution give,
  Take the fond valu’d Trifle back;
I hate Love-Merchants that a Trade wou’d drive
  And meanly cunning Bargains make.

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Wormwood And Nightshade

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

The troubles of life are many,
The pleasures of life are few;
When we sat in the sunlight, Annie,
I dreamt that the skies were blue -

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Burns

© Fitz-Greene Halleck

WILD ROSE of Alloway! my thanks:
Thou 'mindst me of that autumn noon
When first we met upon "the banks
And braes o'bonny Doon."

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Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy

© Michael Drayton

Old Chaucer doth of Thopas tell,

Mad Rabelais of Pantagruel,

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

© Thomas Parnell

So pass'd Europa thro' the rapid Sea,
Trembling and fainting all the vent'rous Way;
With oary Feet the Bull triumphant rode,
And safe in Crete depos'd his lovely Load.
Ah safe at last! may thus the Frog support
My trembling Limbs to reach his ample Court.

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Dolly

© Robert Bloomfield

The Bat began with giddy wing
His circuit round the Shed, the Tree;
And clouds of dancing Gnats to sing
A summer-night's serenity.

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Lines In Memory Of Edmund Morris

© Duncan Campbell Scott

How shall we transmit in tendril-like images,
The tenuous tremor in the tissues of ether,
Before the round of colour buds like the dome of a shrine,
The preconscious moment when love has fluttered in the bosom,
Before it begins to ache?

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Beautiful Dreamer Serenade

© Stephen C. Foster

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd a way!

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A Farewell

© Edith Nesbit

Good-bye, good-bye; it is not hard to part!
You have my heart--the heart that leaps to hear
Your name called by an echo in a dream;
You have my soul that, like an untroubled stream,
Reflects your soul that leans so dear, so near -
Your heartbeats set the rhythm for my heart.

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Sylvester’s Dying Bed

© Langston Hughes

I woke up this mornin’ 
’Bout half-past three. 
All the womens in town 
Was gathered round me.

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Winter Roses

© John Greenleaf Whittier

My garden roses long ago
Have perished from the leaf-strewn walks;
Their pale, fair sisters smile no more
Upon the sweet-brier stalks.

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Our Willie

© Henry Timrod

’T was merry Christmas when he came,

Our little boy beneath the sod;

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The Wren’s Nest

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I TOOK the wren's nest;--
Heaven forgive me!
Its merry architects so small
Had scarcely finished their wee hall,

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Becoming a Redwood

© Dana Gioia

Stand in a field long enough, and the sounds 
start up again. The crickets, the invisible 
toad who claims that change is possible,

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Song #3.

© Robert Crawford

Love's but to be had this way:
Reverent you must be with her,
Letting your heart night and day
Dreamy in her beauty stir.

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Paradise Regain'd: Book III (1671)

© Patrick Kavanagh

SO spake the Son of God, and Satan stood

A while as mute confounded what to say,

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The Recluse - Book First

© William Wordsworth

HOME AT GRASMERE
ONCE to the verge of yon steep barrier came
A roving school-boy; what the adventurer's age
Hath now escaped his memory--but the hour,

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End of Summer

© Stanley Kunitz

An agitation of the air,


A perturbation of the light

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The Life of Earth

© Robert Fuller Murray

The life of earth, how full of pain,
Which greets us on our day of birth,
Nor leaves us while we yet retain
The life of earth.

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Brothers-American Drama

© James Weldon Johnson

See! There he stands; not brave, but with an air 
Of sullen stupor. Mark him well! Is he
Not more like brute than man? Look in his eye! 
No light is there; none, save the glint that shines 
In the now glaring, and now shifting orbs
Of some wild animal caught in the hunter’s trap.