Miracles poems

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Pain XVI

© Khalil Gibran

And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."

And he said:

Earthborn

© Peter McArthur

HURLED back, defeated, like a child I sought

The loving shelter of my native fields,

Black Rook In Rainy Weather

© Sylvia Plath

On the stiff twig up there
Hunches a wet black rook
Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain-
I do not expect a miracle
Or an accident

Anhelli - Chapter 4

© Juliusz Slowacki

Then, when they had taken off the coffin lids, Anhelli shuddered,
seeing that the dead were still in chains, and he said :
"Shaman, lo I am afraid lest these martyrs may never rise from the dead.

Heaven Above, Heaven Below

© Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov

Night opens wide the burning Macrocosm,-
And heaven's hierarchies come into view
Lo, the spirit sings, and the elements dance
Interwoven with snaky locks of starlight.

The Zenana

© Letitia Elizabeth Landon

And fragrant though the flowers are breathing,
From far and near together wreathing,
They are not those she used to wear,
Upon the midnight of her hair.

No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go;
I'm busy, tired; they knew I should not come;
you do not need me there. Dear, be content,
and take your pleasure; you shall tell me of it.
There, go to don your miracles of gauze,
and come and show yourself a great pink cloud.

Homecoming

© Friedrich Hölderlin

1.

It is still bright night in the Alps, and a cloud,

Friar Pedro's Ride

© Francis Bret Harte

It was the morning season of the year;

It was the morning era of the land;

The Purgatory Of St. Patrick - Act II

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

PHILIP [aside]. If to find my death I come,
Why precipitate my doom?
But so patient who could be
As to not desire to see
What impends, how dark its gloom?

Daniel. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Persons of the Drama.
Darius, King of Media and Babylon.
Pharnaces, Courtier, Enemy to Daniel.
Soranus, dido.
Araspes, A Young Median Lord, Friend and Convert to Daniel
Daniel.

The Kalevala - Rune XLVII

LOUHI STEALS SUN, MOON, AND FIRE.

A Priest

NATURE and he went ever hand in hand

Across the hills and down the lonely lane;

Foresight And Patience

Sprung of the father blood, the mother brain,
Are they who point our pathway and sustain.
They rarely meet; one soars, one walks retired.
When they do meet, it is our earth inspired.

Alsace-Lorraine

Yet the like aerial growths may chance be the delicate sprays,
Infant of Earth's most urgent in sap, her fierier zeal
For entry on Life's upper fields: and soul thus flourishing pays
The martyr's penance, mark for brutish in man to heel.