Power poems

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A Sicilian Idyll

© Thomas Sturge Moore

Cydilla
Thanks, Damon; now, by Zeus, thou art so brisk,
It shames me that to stoop should try my bones.

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Dreams

© Henry Timrod

Who first said "false as dreams?" Not one who saw
 Into the wild and wondrous world they sway;
No thinker who hath read their mystic law;
 No Poet who hath weaved them in his lay.

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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - part 05

© Torquato Tasso

LVI

Guascher and Raiphe in valor like there was.

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Aladdin

© James Russell Lowell

When I was a beggarly boy

  And lived in a cellar damp,

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From ‘The Cross’

© John Donne

Who can blot out the Cross, which th’instrument  

Of God, dew’d on me in the Sacrament?  

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Douro

© Robert Laurence Binyon

The dripping of the boughs in silence heard
Softly; the low note of some lingering bird
Amid the weeping vapour; the chill fall
Of solitary evening upon all

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An Evening Song To She Who Exists By My Name

© Daniil Ivanovich Kharms

Daughter of the daughter of the daughters of the daughter Pe

foreto the apple you ate of yee

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When It's Bad To Forget

© Edgar Albert Guest

DID you ever meet a brother as you hurried on your way

And invite him up to dinner, and his wife;

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The Bacchanal Of Alexander

© Robert Laurence Binyon

I
A wondrous rumour fills and stirs
The wide Carmanian Vale;
On leafy hills the sunburnt vintagers

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To Mr. Harley - Wounded by Guiscard

© Matthew Prior

In one great now, superior to an age,
The full extremes of nature's force we find:
How heavenly virtue can exalt, or rage
Infernal how degrade the human mind.

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The Song Of Hiawatha XV: Hiawatha's Lamentation

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In those days the Evil Spirits,

All the Manitos of mischief,

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Numbers

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Trefoil and Quatrefoil!

What shaped those destinied small silent leaves

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Hope Triumphant in Death

© Thomas Campbell

Unfading Hope! when life's last embers burn -

When soul to soul, and dust to dust return,

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Christmas

© Sir Walter Scott

The glowing censers, and their rich perfume;

The splendid vestments, and the sounding choir;

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Richborough Castle

© Edith Nesbit

THESE three grey walls are still stout and strong,

  Though the fourth wide wall has crumbled away

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Fragment Of A Sonnet. Farewell To North Devon

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where man's profane and tainting hand
Nature’s primaeval loveliness has marred,
And some few souls of the high bliss debarred
Which else obey her powerful command;
...mountain piles
That load in grandeur Cambria's emerald vales.

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The Island: Canto I.

© George Gordon Byron


I.

The morning watch was come; the vessel lay

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The Kalevala - Rune XXIX

© Elias Lönnrot

THE ISLE OF REFUGE.


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Psalm CXLVIII

© George Wither

Come, oh! come, with sacred lays,

Let us sound th' Almighty's praise;

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The Wrongs Of Africa, A Poem. Part The First

© William Roscoe

OFFSPRING of love divine, Humanity!

To who, his eldest born, th'Eternal gave