Morning poems

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The House Across the Way

© Ralph Hodgson

The leaves looked in at the window

Of the house across the way,

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A Poem Beginning With A Line From Pindar

© Robert Duncan

But the eyes in Goya’s painting are soft,
diffuse with rapture absorb the flame.
Their bodies yield out of strength.
  Waves of visual pleasure
wrap them in a sorrow previous to their impatience.

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Contemplation

© Francis Thompson

This morning saw I, fled the shower,
The earth reclining in a lull of power:
The heavens, pursuing not their path,
Lay stretched out naked after bath,
Or so it seemed; field, water, tree, were still,
Nor was there any purpose on the calm-browed hill.

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The Boatswain’s Song

© Caroline Norton

A CHEER to keep our hearts up,
A cup to drown our tears,
And we'll talk of those who perished,
Our mates in former years.

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9. The Ploughman’s Life

© Robert Burns

AS I was a-wand’ring ae morning in spring,
I heard a young ploughman sae sweetly to sing;
And as he was singin’, thir words he did say,—
There’s nae life like the ploughman’s in the month o’ sweet May.

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241. Written in Friars’ Carse Hermitage (Second Version)

© Robert Burns

THOU whom chance may hither lead,
Be thou clad in russet weed,
Be thou deckt in silken stole,
Grave these counsels on thy soul.

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18. The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm versified

© Robert Burns

O THOU, the first, the greatest friend
Of all the human race!
Whose strong right hand has ever been
Their stay and dwelling place!

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The Ballad of the White Horse

© Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Of great limbs gone to chaos,
A great face turned to night-
Why bend above a shapeless shroud
Seeking in such archaic cloud
Sight of strong lords and light?

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461. Song—Charlie, he’s my Darling

© Robert Burns

’TWAS on a Monday morning,
Right early in the year,
That Charlie came to our town,
The young Chevalier.

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Howard At Atlanta

© John Greenleaf Whittier

RIGHT in the track where Sherman
Ploughed his red furrow,
Out of the narrow cabin,
Up from the cellar's burrow,

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435. Song—Where are the Joys I have met

© Robert Burns

WHERE are the joys I have met in the morning,
That danc’d to the lark’s early song?
Where is the peace that awaited my wand’ring,
At evening the wild-woods among?

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Shyama -- English Translation

© Rabindranath Tagore

Yet after all these I cannot forget the pain
I couldn’t know her more!
One can hardly be nearest to what is beautiful
It ever remains far
When nearer it urges one ever
To know it ever more.

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"Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve"

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

YES, tyrants, you hate us, and fear while you hate
The self-ruling, chain-breaking, throne-shaking State!
The night-birds dread morning,--your instinct is true,--
The day-star of Freedom brings midnight for you!

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263. Song—The Gardener wi’ his Paidle

© Robert Burns

WHEN rosy May comes in wi’ flowers,
To deck her gay, green-spreading bowers,
Then busy, busy are his hours,
The Gard’ner wi’ his paidle.

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437. Song—Thine am I, my faithful Fair

© Robert Burns

THINE am I, my faithful Fair,
Thine, my lovely Nancy;
Ev’ry pulse along my veins,
Ev’ry roving fancy.

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The Bards Who Lived at Manly

© Henry Lawson

The camp  of high-class spielers,

  Who sneered in summer dress,

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Ecstasy

© Duncan Campbell Scott

The shore-lark soars to his topmost flight,
  Sings at the height where morning springs,
What though his voice be lost in the light,
  The light comes dropping from his wings.

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Hans Carvel

© Matthew Prior

Hans Carvel, impotent and old,

Married a lass of London mould.

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319. Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn

© Robert Burns

THE WIND blew hollow frae the hills,
By fits the sun’s departing beam
Look’d on the fading yellow woods,
That wav’d o’er Lugar’s winding stream:

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3. Song—I dream’d I lay

© Robert Burns

I DREAM’D I lay where flowers were springing
Gaily in the sunny beam;
List’ning to the wild birds singing,
By a falling crystal stream: