Power poems

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Good Temper

© Charles Lamb

In whatsoever place resides
Good Temper, she o'er all presides;
The most obdurate heart she guides.

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Metamorphoses: Book The Thirteenth

© Ovid

  The End of the Thirteenth Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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Pharsalia - Book VI: The Fight Near Dyrhachium. Scaeva's Exploits. The Witch Of Thessalia.

© Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

Now that the chiefs with minds intent on fight

Had drawn their armies near upon the hills

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Orlando Furioso Canto 14

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Two squadrons lack of those which muster under

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The Choice

© Emma Lazarus

I saw in dream the spirits unbegot,

Veiled, floating phantoms, lost in twilight space;

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King Of The River

© Stanley Kunitz

If the water were clear enough,

if the water were still,

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The Lark’s Nest

© Charlotte Turner Smith

"TRUST only to thyself;" the maxim's sound;

For, tho' life's choicest blessing be a friend,

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Hero And Leander. The Fifth Sestiad

© George Chapman

Now was bright Hero weary of the day,

  Thought an Olympiad in Leander's stay.

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book IV - Part 02 - Existence And Character Of The Images

© Lucretius

But since I've taught already of what sort

The seeds of all things are, and how distinct

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The Columbiad: Book VI

© Joel Barlow


But of all tales that war's black annals hold,
The darkest, foulest still remains untold;
New modes of torture wait the shameful strife,
And Britain wantons in the waste of life.

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book II - Part 03 - Atomic Forms And Their Combinations

© Lucretius

Now come, and next hereafter apprehend

What sorts, how vastly different in form,

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The Exile's Hymn

© Jose Maria de Heredia y Campuzano

Fair land of Cuba! on thy shores are seen

Life's far extremes of noble and of mean;

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Autumn Wealth

© Kristijonas Donelaitis

Of course, there is no lack of faithful Christians ,too.
Most of Lithuanians are men of good character;
They love their families, obey the will of God.
Each day live saintly lives, steer clear of all misdeeds,
And rule their modest homes with kind parental care.

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Love Recalled in Sleep

© Robert Fuller Murray

There was a time when in your face
There dwelt such power, and in your smile
I know not what of magic grace;
They held me captive for a while.

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Italy

© John Greenleaf Whittier

ACROSS the sea I heard the groans

Of nations in the intervals

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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - part 01

© Torquato Tasso

THE ARGUMENT.

Satan his fiends and assembleth all,

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Ode To Liberty

© Henry James Pye

O liberty! celestial maid!

  Where has thy vagrant fancy stray'd?

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After-Thought

© Alfred Tennyson

I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide,

As being past away. -Vain sympathies!

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The Dove

© Matthew Prior

In Virgil's Sacred Verse we find,

That Passion can depress or raise