Life poems

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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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For Frank Gardiner

© Owen Suffolk

It is not in a prison drear

Where all around is gloom,

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Steinli Von Slang

© Charles Godfrey Leland

I.
DER watchman look out from his tower
Ash de Abendgold glimmer grew dim,
Und saw on de road troo de Gauer

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Lord Of My Life

© Rabindranath Tagore

Didst thou store my days and nights,
my deeds and dreams for the alchemy of thy art,
and string in the chain of thy music my songs of autumn and spring,
and gather the flowers from my mature moments for thy crown?

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Bare Boughs

© Madison Julius Cawein

O heart,-that beat the bird's blithe blood,
The blithe bird's strain, and understood
The song it sang to leaf and bud,-
What dost thou in the wood?

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'Dichterliebe'

© Gwen Harwood

So hungry-sensitive that he
craves day and night the pap of praise,
he'll ease his gripes or fingerpaint
in heartsblood on a public page.
The ordinary world must be
altered to circumvent his rage.

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Anacreontics, The Epicure

© Abraham Cowley

UNDERNEATH this myrtle shade,

On flowerly beds supinely laid,

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Ode:Inscribed to W.H. Channing

© Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though loath to grieve
The evil time's sole patriot,
I cannot leave
My honeyed thought
For the priest's cant,
Or statesman's rant.

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Fragment: Apostrophe To Silence

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou
Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged
Of one abyss, where life, and truth, and joy
Are swallowed up—yet spare me, Spirit, pity me,

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Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Clapham Academy

© Thomas Hood

Ah me! those old familiar bounds!
That classic house, those classic grounds
My pensive thought recalls!
What tender urchins now confine,
What little captives now repine,
Within yon irksome walls?

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At Cashel

© Padraic Colum

ABOVE me stand, worn from their ancient use,
The King's, the Bishop's, and the Warrior's house,
Quiet as folds upon a grassy knoll:
Stark-grey they stand, wall joined to ancient wall,
Chapel, and Castle, and Cathedral.

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The Subterranean River, At Cong.

© Richard Monckton Milnes

A pleasant mean of joy and wonder fills
The trave'ller's mind, beside this secret stream,
That flows from lake to lake beneath the hills,
And penetrates their slumber like a dream.

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The Year-King

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

It is the last of all the days,
The day on which the Old Year dies.
Ah! yes, the fated hour is near;
I see upon his snow-white bier
Outstretched the weary wanderer lies,
And mark his dying gaze.

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The Nile

© Sir Henry Newbolt

Out of the unknown South,

Through the dark lands of drouth,

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Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu)

© Sarojini Naidu

You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,

Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness in the swan.

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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 Wreck Of The Julie Plante

© William Henry Drummond

On wan dark night on Lac St. Pierre,
  De win' she blow, blow, blow,
  An' de crew of de wood scow "Julie Plante"
  Got scar't an' run below—

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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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Hongree and Mahry

© William Schwenck Gilbert

The sun was setting in its wonted west,
When HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,
Met MAHRY DAUBIGNY, the Village Rose,
Under the Wizard's Oak - old trysting-place
Of those who loved in rosy Aquitaine.

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To --------

© Anne Brontë

And if thy life as transient proved,
It hath been full as bright,
For thou wert hopeful and beloved;
Thy spirit knew no blight.