Power poems

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The White Witch

© James Weldon Johnson

O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!
The great white witch rides out to-night,
Trust not your prowess nor your strength;
Your only safety lies in flight;
For in her glance there is a snare,
And in her smile there is a blight.

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To George H. Boker

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

IT hath been thine to prove what use and power,
What sweetness, and what glorious strength belong
To the brief compass of that slandered song
We term the Sonnet. Thine hath been the dower

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Miriam

© John Greenleaf Whittier

But over Akbar's brows the frown hung black,
And, turning to the eunuch at his back,
"Take them," he said, "and let the Jumna's waves
Hide both my shame and these accursed slaves!"
His loathly length the unsexed bondman bowed
"On my head be it!"

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Maha-Bharata, The Epic Of Ancient India - Book XII - Aswa-Medha - (Sacrifice Of The Horse)

© Romesh Chunder Dutt

The real Epic ends with the war and the funerals of the deceased

warriors. Much of what follows in the original Sanscrit poem is

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Sent To Mr. Haley, On Reading His Epistles On Epic Poetry

© Henry James Pye

What blooming garlands shall the Muses twine,

  What verdant laurels weave, what flowers combine,

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A Legend Of Brittany - Part Second

© James Russell Lowell

I

As one who, from the sunshine and the green,

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Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book III

© John Gay

Of Walking the Streets by Night.

O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,

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Love, Though For This You Riddle Me With Darts

© Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,

And drag me at your chariot till I die,--

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The Solitary’s Wine

© Charles Baudelaire

A flirtatious woman’s singular gaze
as she slithers towards you, like the white rays
the vibrant moon throws on the trembling sea
where she wishes to bathe her casual beauty,

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To M.L. Gray,

© Eugene Field

Come, dear old friend, and with us twain
  To calm Digentian groves repair;
The turtle coos his sweet refrain
  And posies are a-blooming there;
And there the romping Sabine girls
Bind myrtle in their lustrous curls.

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Rural Elegance, An Ode to the Late Duchess of Somerset

© William Shenstone

While orient skies restore the day,
And dew-drops catch the lucid ray;
Amid the sprightly scenes of morn
Will aught the Muse inspire?
Oh! peace to yonder clamorous horn
That drowns the sacred lyre!

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King David

© Stephen Vincent Benet

David sang to his hook-nosed harp:
"The Lord God is a jealous God!
His violent vengeance is swift and sharp!
And the Lord is King above all gods!

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British Association, Notes Of The President's Address

© James Clerk Maxwell

In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,

Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness of men;

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The Conjunction Of Jupiter And Venus

© William Cullen Bryant

I would not always reason. The straight path

Wearies us with its never-varying lines,

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The Courtship Of Young John

© Alice Guerin Crist

But he little knew what a treasure he’d won.
What a wonderful life had just begun;
And how bright the sunshine that lay upon
The future pathway of ‘that young John’.

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The Cyclops

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

SILENUS.
ULYSSES.
CHORUS OF SATYRS.
THE CYCLOPS.

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The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare , Maggie

© Robert Burns

A Guide New-year I wish thee, Maggie!
Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie:
Tho' thou's howe-backit now, an' knaggie,
I've seen the day
There could hae gaen like ony staggie,
Out-owre the lay.

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Drake

© Alfred Noyes

  England, my mother,
  Lift to my western sweetheart
  One full cup of English mead, breathing of the may!
  Pledge the may-flower in her face that you and ah, none other,
  Sent her from the mother-land
  Across the dashing spray.

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Wanderlieder

© John Hay

I stand at the break of day

In the Champs Elysees.

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The Old, Old Story and the New Order

© Henry Lawson

They proved we could not think nor see,

  They proved we could not write,