Power poems

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Palinodia

© Giacomo Leopardi

TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI.


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A Christmas Carol

© Alfred Austin

Hark! In the air, around, above,
The Angelic Music soars and swells,
And, in the Garden that I love,
I hear the sound of Christmas Bells.

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The Last Elegy Of The Third Book Of Tibullus

© Henry James Pye

Propitious Bacchus come—so round thy brow

  Be with the mystic vine the ivy wove;

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The Human Sacrifice

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I.
FAR from his close and noisome cell,
By grassy lane and sunny stream,
Blown clover field and strawberry dell,

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Queen Mab: Part I.

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

FAIRY
  'Spirit! who hast dived so deep;
  Spirit! who hast soared so high;
  Thou the fearless, thou the mild,
  Accept the boon thy worth hath earned,
  Ascend the car with me!'

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Thora

© Celia Thaxter

Come under my cloak, my darling!
  Thou little Norwegian main!
Nor wind, nor rain, nor rolling sea
  Shall chill or make thee afraid.

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Cyder: Book II

© John Arthur Phillips

  Sometimes thou shalt with fervent Vows implore
  A moderate Wind; the Orchat loves to wave
  With Winter-Winds, before the Gems exert
  Their feeble Heads; the loosen'd Roots then drink
  Large Increment, Earnest of happy Years.

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The Ruined Abbey, or, The Affects of Superstition

© William Shenstone

At length fair Peace, with olive crown'd, regains

Her lawful throne, and to the sacred haunts

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Australia

© John Farrell

O Radiant Land! o'er whom the Sun's first dawning

Fell brightest when God said " Let there be Light;"'

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An Autograph

© James Russell Lowell

O’er the wet sands an insect crept
Ages ere man on earth was known—
And patient Time, while Nature slept,
The slender tracing turned to stone.

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Translation Of A Romaic Love Song

© George Gordon Byron

Ah! Love was never yet without
The pang, the agony, the doubt,
Which rends my heart with ceaseless sigh,
While day and night roll darkling by.

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Deep Sea Cables

© Rudyard Kipling

They have wakened the timeless Things; they have killed their father Time
Joining hands in the gloom, a league from the last of the sun.
Hush! Men talk to-day o'er the waste of the ultimate slime,
And a new Word runs between: whispering, 'Let us be one!'

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Rippling Water

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

The maiden sat by the river side

(The rippling water murmurs by),

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Do Your All

© Edgar Albert Guest

"Do your bit!" How cheap and trite

  Seems that phrase in such a fight!

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Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte

© George Gordon Byron

'Expends Annibalem:--quot libras in duce summo

Invenies?~JUVENAL., Sat. X.

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New Year's Eve: A Waking Dream

© George MacDonald

I have not any fearful tale to tell

Of fabled giant or of dragon-claw,

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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

© Walt Whitman


When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey

© Hannah More

VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,

Awhile my idle strain attend:

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From “Evangeline”

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow,
All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!
And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom,  
Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
  “Father, I thank thee!”

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Cadenus And Vanessa

© Jonathan Swift

THE shepherds and the nymphs were seen
Pleading before the Cyprian Queen.
The counsel for the fair began
Accusing the false creature, man.