Power poems

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Life's Mighty Flood

© Shams al-Din Hafiz

WHAT is wrought in the forge of the living and life--
All things are nought! Ho! fill me the bowl,
For nought is the gear of the world and the strife!
One passion has quickened the heart and the soul,

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A Story Of Doom: Book I.

© Jean Ingelow

Niloiya said to Noah, "What aileth thee,
My master, unto whom is my desire,
The father of my sons?" He answered her,
"Mother of many children, I have heard
The Voice again." "Ah, me!" she saith, "ah, me!
What spake it?" and with that Niloiya sighed.

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The Civil Wars (excerpts)

© Samuel Daniel

XXXVI

 The swift approach and unexpected speed

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Theirs

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I.

Fate summoned, in gray-bearded age, to act

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The Three Guides

© Anne Brontë

Spirit of Earth! thy hand is chill:

I've felt its icy clasp;

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The Parish Register - Part III: Burials

© George Crabbe

drown'd.
"Is this a landsman's love? Be certain then,
"We part for ever!"--and they cried, "Amen!"
  His words were truth's:- Some forty summers

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An Athenian Reverie

© Archibald Lampman

How the returning days, one after one,

Came ever in their rhythmic round, unchanged,

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Hellenistics

© Robinson Jeffers

I look at the Greek-derived design that nourished my infancy
this Wedgwood copy of the Portland vase:
Someone had given it to my father my eyes at five years old
used to devour it by the hour.

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At Port Royal

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The tent-lights glimmer on the land,
  The ship-lights on the sea;
The night-wind smooths with drifting sand
  Our track on lone Tybee.

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To The Lacedemonians

© Allen Tate

  Go you tell them
That we their servants, well-trained, gray-coated
And haired (both foot and horse) or in
The grave, them obey . . . obey them,
What commands?

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Ode XIII: On Lyric Poetry

© Mark Akenside

I. 1.

Once more I join the Thespian choir,

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III: To Sir Robert Wroth

© Benjamin Jonson

How blest art thou, canst love the countrey, Wroth,

 Whether by choyce, or fate, or both!

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Monody On The Death Of Dr. Warton

© William Lisle Bowles

Oh! I should ill thy generous cares requite

  Thou who didst first inspire my timid Muse,

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Song of the Sannyasin

© Swami Vivekananda

There is but One—The Free—The Knower—Self!
Without a name, without a form or stain.
In Him is Maya dreaming all this dream.
The witness, He appears as nature, soul.
Know thou art That, Sannyasin bold! Say—
"Om Tat Sat, Om!"

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The Prophetic Bard's Oration: From A Faun's Holiday

© Robert Nichols

For Pan, the Unknown God, rules all.
He shall outlive the funeral,
Change, and decay, of many Gods,
Until he, too, lets fall his rods
Of viewless power upon that minute
When Universe cowers at Infinite!

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Ninth Sunday After Trinity

© John Keble

In troublous days of anguish and rebuke,
While sadly round them Israel's children look,
  And their eyes fail for waiting on their Lord:
While underneath each awful arch of green,
On every mountain-top, God's chosen scene,
  Of pure heart-worship, Baal is adored:

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Love

© Fitz-Greene Halleck

……….. The imperial votress passed on
In maiden meditation, fancy free.
Midsummer Night's Dream,
Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?

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Narrara Creek

© Henry Kendall

From the rainy hill-heads, where, in starts and in spasms,

Leaps wild the white torrent from chasms to chasms—

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Aglaia: A Pastoral

© Nicholas Breton

Sylvan Muses, can ye sing

Of the beauty of the Spring?

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Hymn of Sovereign Grace

© Augustus Montague Toplady

Formed for thyself, and turned to thee,
Thy praises, Lord , I show;
No more, with sacrilegious pride,
I rob thee of thy due.