Peace poems

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Custer: Book First

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

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All valor died not on the plains of Troy.

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The Profession. A Sketch

© Alaric Alexander Watts

On Santa Croce's golden-pillared shrine,

A thousand tapers pour their blended rays

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Gebir

© Walter Savage Landor

FIRST BOOK.


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Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;

I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell;

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In Imitation of Spenser : The Alley

© Alexander Pope

I.

In ev'ry Town, where Thamis rolls his Tyde,

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Poland - Italy - Hungary

© Sydney Thompson Dobell

In the great Darkness of the Passion, graves

Were oped, and many Saints which slept arose.

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Dorchester Amphitheatre .

© John Kenyon

By Rome's old amphitheatre I stood,

  Still pretty perfect, on the Weymouth road,

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Sonnet. On Peace

© John Keats

O PEACE! and dost thou with thy presence bless

The dwellings of this war-surrounded Isle;

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Circe

© Augusta Davies Webster

Ah me! these love a day and laugh again,
and loving, laughing, find a full content;
but I know nought of peace, and have not loved.

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Northward

© John Hay

Under the high unclouded sun
That makes the ship and shadow one,
  I sail away as from the fort
Booms sullenly the noonday gun.

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Song of The Coffle Gang

© Anonymous

This song is said to be sung by Slaves, as they are chained in gangs,
when parting from friends for the far off South-children taken from
parents, husbands from wives, and brothers from sisters.

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Requiescant

© Frederick George Scott

In lonely watches night by night
Great visions burst upon my sight,
For down the stretches of the sky
The hosts of dead go marching by.

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War

© Archibald Lampman

By the Nile, the sacred river,

I can see the captive hordes,

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Awakening

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Out of first sleep as they awoke
The moon had stolen upon her face.
It seemed that they had opened eyes
New on another world and place.

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The Seas of England

© Walter de la Mare

The seas of England are our old delight:
Let the loud billow of the shingly shore
Sing freedom on her breezes evermore
To all earth’s ships that sailing heave in sight!

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November, 1851

© George MacDonald

Why wilt thou stop and start?
Draw nearer, oh my heart,
And I will question thee most wistfully;
Gather thy last clear resolution
To look upon thy dissolution.

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Day’s End

© Robert Laurence Binyon

When I am weary, thronged with the cares of the vain day
That tease as harsh winds tease the unresting autumn boughs,
I still my mind at evening and put all else away
But the image of my Love, where all my hopes I house.

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Wild Deer.

© Shams al-Din Hafiz

Where are you O Wild Deer?

I have known you for a while, here.

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The Vigil-at-Arms

© Louise Imogen Guiney

Keep holy watch with silence, prayer, and fasting
Till morning break, and all the bugles play;
Unto the One aware from everlasting
Dear are the winners: thou art more than they.