Life poems

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North and South

© Claude McKay

O sweet are tropic lands for waking dreams!
There time and life move lazily along.
There by the banks of blue-and-silver streams
Grass-sheltered crickets chirp incessant song,

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Orlando Furioso Canto 24

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Odorico's and Gabrina's guilt repaid,

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In Bondage

© Claude McKay

I would be wandering in distant fields
Where man, and bird, and beast, lives leisurely,
And the old earth is kind, and ever yields
Her goodly gifts to all her children free;

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I Shall Return

© Claude McKay

I shall return again; I shall return
To laugh and love and watch with wonder-eyes
At golden noon the forest fires burn,
Wafting their blue-black smoke to sapphire skies.

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The Lost One

© Caroline Norton

COME to the grave--the silent grave! and dream
Of a light, happy voice--so full of joy,
That those who heard her laugh, would laugh again,
Echoing the mirth of such an innocent spirit;

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Confirmation

© John Keble

The shadow of th' Almighty's cloud
  Calm on this tents of Israel lay,
While drooping paused twelve banners proud,
  Till He arise and lead this way.

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Futility

© Claude McKay

Oh, I have tried to laugh the pain away,
Let new flames brush my love-springs like a feather.
But the old fever seizes me to-day,
As sickness grips a soul in wretched weather.

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Italy : 40. Banditti

© Samuel Rogers

'Tis a wild life, fearful and full of change,
The mountain-robber's.  On the watch he lies,
Levelling his carbine at the passenger;
And, when his work is done, he dares not sleep.

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Courage

© Claude McKay

O lonely heart so timid of approach,
Like the shy tropic flower that shuts its lips
To the faint touch of tender finger tips:
What is your word? What question would you broach?

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Beautiful Lofty Things

© William Butler Yeats

BEAUTIFUL lofty things:  O'Leary's noble head;

My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd:

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The Voyage Of St. Brendan A.D. 545 - The Promised Land

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

As on this world the young man turns his eyes,
When forced to try the dark sea of the grave,
Thus did we gaze upon that Paradise,
Fading, as we were borne across the wave.

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Three Palinodias - 03 Rain And Rainbow

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

DURING a heavy storm it chanced

That from his room a cockney glanced

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The Duellist - Book III

© Charles Churchill

Ah me! what mighty perils wait

The man who meddles with a state,

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A Red Flower

© Claude McKay

Your lips are like a southern lily red,
Wet with the soft rain-kisses of the night,
In which the brown bee buries deep its head,
When still the dawn's a silver sea of light.

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The Dance To Death. Act I

© Emma Lazarus


This play is dedicated, in profound veneration and respect, to the
memory of George Eliot, the illustrious writer, who did most among
the artists of our day towards elevating and ennobling the spirit
of Jewish nationality.

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Ode To Cheerfulness

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Guide me to thy fav'rite bow'rs,
To deck thy rural shrine with flow'rs.
In thy lowly, sylvan cell,
Peace and virtue love to dwell;
Ever let me own thy sway,
Still to thee my tribute pay.

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The Bachelor's Soliloquy

© Edgar Albert Guest

To wed, or not to wed; that is the question;Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe bills and house rent of a wedded fortune,Or to say "nit" when she proposes,And by declining cut her

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Aubrey Beardsley

© Arthur Symons

Why was it he and not another?

Tell me, do you now enjoy this

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The Worldling

© John Newton

My barns are full, my stores increase,
And now, for many years,
Soul, eat and drink, and take thine ease,
Secure from wants and fears.

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Hard Luck

© Edgar Albert Guest

Ain't no use as I can see
In sittin' underneath a tree
An' growlin' that your luck is bad,
An' that your life is extry sad;