Life poems

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The Dying Hour

© Caroline Norton

OH! watch me; watch me still
Thro' the long night's dreary hours,
Uphold by thy firm will
Worn Nature's sinking powers!
II.

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The Tournament

© Sidney Lanier

Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies,
And the knights still hurried amain
To the tournament under the ladies' eyes,
Where the jousters were Heart and Brain.

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The Symphony

© Sidney Lanier

And yet shall Love himself be heard,
Though long deferred, though long deferred:
O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:
Music is Love in search of a word."

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The Vanity of All Worldly Things

© Anne Bradstreet

As he said vanity, so vain say I,

Oh! Vanity, O vain all under sky;

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Sonnet LIV: Yet Read at Last

© Michael Drayton

Yet read at last the story of my woe,

The dreary abstracts of my endless cares,

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Babylon

© Ralph Hodgson

If you could bring her glories back!

You gentle sirs who sift the dust

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The Dead Babe

© Eugene Field

Last night, as my dear babe lay dead,
In agony I knelt and said:
"0 God! what have I done,
Or in what wise offended Thee,
That Thou should'st take away from me
My little son?

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The Power Of Prayer

© Sidney Lanier

You, Dinah! Come and set me whar de ribber-roads does meet.
De Lord, HE made dese black-jack roots to twis' into a seat.
Umph, dar! De Lord have mussy on dis blin' ole nigger's feet.

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The Mocking-Bird

© Sidney Lanier

Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray
That o'er the general leafage boldly grew,
He summ'd the woods in song; or typic drew
The watch of hungry hawks, the lone dismay

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The Jacquerie A Fragment

© Sidney Lanier

Chapter I.Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright
Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night,
And flamed, one brilliant instant, on the world,
Then back into the historic moat was hurled

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The Dying Words Of Stonewall Jackson

© Sidney Lanier

"Order A. P. Hill to prepare for battle."
"Tell Major Hawks to advance the Commissary train."
"Let us cross the river and rest in the shade."

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The Crystal

© Sidney Lanier

Thee, Socrates,
Thou dear and very strong one, I forgive
Thy year-worn cloak, thine iron stringencies
That were but dandy upside-down, thy words
Of truth that, mildlier spoke, had mainlier wrought.

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Street Cries

© Sidney Lanier

Oft seems the Time a market-town
Where many merchant-spirits meet
Who up and down and up and down
Cry out along the street

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Sonnett - XXVII

© James Russell Lowell

I thought our love at full, but I did err;

Joy's wreath drooped o'er mine eyes; I could not see

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Strange Jokes

© Sidney Lanier

Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad
Grim squatting on a twilight road.
He catcheth all that Circumstance
Hath tossed to him.
He curseth all who upward glance
As lost to him.

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Spring Greeting

© Sidney Lanier

From the German of Herder.All faintly through my soul to-day,
As from a bell that far away
Is tinkled by some frolic fay,
Floateth a lovely chiming.

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Special Pleading

© Sidney Lanier

Time, hurry my Love to me:
Haste, haste! Lov'st not good company?
Here's but a heart-break sandy waste
'Twixt Now and Then. Why, killing haste
Were best, dear Time, for thee, for thee!

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Souls And Rain-Drops

© Sidney Lanier

Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,
Then vanish, and die utterly.
One would not know that rain-drops fell
If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.

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Otho The Great - Act III

© John Keats

SCENE I. The Country.

Enter ALBERT.

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Resurrection

© Sidney Lanier

Sometimes in morning sunlights by the river
Where in the early fall long grasses wave,
Light winds from over the moorland sink and shiver
And sigh as if just blown across a grave.