Life poems

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Stanzas to the Rose

© Mary Darby Robinson

SWEET PICTURE of Life's chequer'd hour!
Ah, wherefore droop thy blushing head?
Tell me, oh tell me, hap'less flow'r,
Is it because thy charms are fled?
Come, gentle ROSE, and learn from me
A lesson of Philosophy.

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Queen Mab In The Village

© Vachel Lindsay

Once I loved a fairy,

Queen Mab it was. Her voice

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Satia te Sanguine

© Algernon Charles Swinburne

IF YOU loved me ever so little,
  I could bear the bonds that gall,
I could dream the bonds were brittle;
  You do not love me at all.

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Stanzas to a Friend

© Mary Darby Robinson

AH! think no more that Life's delusive joys,
Can charm my thoughts from FRIENDSHIP'S dearer claim;
Or wound a heart, that scarce a wish employs,
For age to censure, or discretion blame.

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Stanzas

© Mary Darby Robinson

WHEN fragrant gales and summer show'rs
Call'd forth the sweetly scented flow'rs;
When ripen'd sheaves of golden grain,
Strew'd their rich treasures o'er the plain;

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A Cloud In Trousers - part IV

© Vladimir Mayakovsky

In the streets
men will prick the blubber of four-story craws,
thrust out their little eyes,
worn in forty years of wear and tear to snigger
at my champing
again! on the hard crust of yesterday's caress.

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Sonnet XXXV: What Means the Mist

© Mary Darby Robinson

What means the mist opaque that veils these eyes;
Why does yon threat'ning tempest shroud the day?
Why does thy altar, Venus, fade away,
And on my breast the dews of horror rise?

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One Song, America, Before I Go

© Walt Whitman

ONE song, America, before I go,
I'd sing, o'er all the rest, with trumpet sound,
For thee-the Future.

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The Kalevala - Rune XXXV

© Elias Lönnrot

KULLERVO'S EVIL DEEDS.


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The Last Toast

© Anna Akhmatova

I drink to home, that is lost,
To evil life of mine,
To loneness in which we’re both,
And to your future, fine, --

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The Dream of Man

© William Watson

To the eye and the ear of the Dreamer
 This Dream out of darkness flew,
Through the horn or the ivory portal,
 But he wist not which of the two.

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Sonnet XXVI: Where Antique Woods

© Mary Darby Robinson

Where antique woods o'er-hang the mountains's crest,
And mid-day glooms in solemn silence lour;
Philosophy, go seek a lonely bow'r,
And waste life's fervid noon in fancied rest.

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Harvest-Home

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

O'ER all the fragrant land this harvest day,
What bounteous sheaves are garnered, ear and blade!
Whether the heavens be golden-glad, or gray,--
And the swart laborers toil in sun or shade:--

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The Fetch

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

"What makes you so late at the trysting?

What caused you so long to be?

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The Gallant Peter Clarke

© Anonymous

On Walden's Range at morning time
The sun shone brightly down;
It shone across the winding Page
Near Murrurundi town.

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The Hueless Love

© George Meredith

Unto that love must we through fire attain,
Which those two held as breath of common air;
The hands of whom were given in bond elsewhere;
Whom Honour was untroubled to restrain.

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The Kalevala - Rune XXIII

© Elias Lönnrot

OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISER


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Sonnet X: Dang'rous to Hear

© Mary Darby Robinson

Dang'rous to hear, is that melodious tongue,
And fatal to the sense those murd'rous eyes,
Where in a sapphire sheath, Love's arrow lies,
Himself conceal'd the crystal haunts among!

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May, 1917

© John Jay Chapman

THE earth is damp: in everything

I taste the bitter breath of pallid spring.

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The Last Eve Of Summer

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Summer's last sun nigh unto setting shines
Through yon columnar pines,
And on the deepening shadows of the lawn
Its golden lines are drawn.