Power poems

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Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dear to his age were memories such as these,
Leaves of his June in life's autumnal breeze;
Such were the tales that won my boyish ear,
Told in low tones that evening loves to hear.

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Ode Composed On A May Morning

© William Wordsworth

WHILE from the purpling east departs

  The star that led the dawn,

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The Old Sergeant

© Forceythe Willson

“COME a little nearer, Doctor,—thank you,—let me take the cup:
Draw your chair up,—draw it closer,—just another little sup!
May be you may think I ’m better; but I ’m pretty well used up:—
  Doctor, you’ve done all you could do, but I ’m just a going up!

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Remorse

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

"What would you tell me, my child, my child, that once slept a babe on my breast?"
(Do the death bells toll for a passing soul?)
"O mother! my friend is dead, now I stand confessed.
I can strike the stone into flame, make the dark give light,
But I cannot give back to the tiniest bird its flight.

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The Moral Warfare

© John Greenleaf Whittier

WHEN Freedom, on her natal day,
Within her war-rocked cradle lay,
An iron race around her stood,
Baptized her infant brow in blood;

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Sonnets Of The Blood IX

© Allen Tate

Captains of industry, your aimless power

Awakens harsh velleities of time:

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On A Landscape Bt Rubens

© William Lisle Bowles

Nay, let us gaze, ev'n till the sense is full,

  Upon the rich creation, shadowed so

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The Feast Of Freedom

© Victor Marie Hugo

When the Christians were doomed to the lions of old
By the priest and the praetor, combined to uphold
  An idolatrous cause,
Forth they came while the vast Colosseum throughout
Gathered thousands looked on, and they fell 'mid the shout
  Of "the People's" applause.

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The Empty Purse--A Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son

© George Meredith

Thy knowledge of women might be surpassed:
As any sad dog's of sweet flesh when he quits
The wayside wandering bone!
No revilings of comrades as ingrates:  thee
The tempter, misleader, and criminal (screened
By laws yet barbarous) own.

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In The Garret

© Louisa May Alcott

Four little chests all in a row,

  Dim with dust, and worn by time,

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France

© Rudyard Kipling

Broke to every known mischance, lifted over all
By the light sane joy of life, the buckler of the Gaul,
Furious in luxury, merciless in toil,
Terrible with strength that draws from her tireless soil;

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A Vision Of The Argonauts

© Richard Monckton Milnes

It is a privilege of great price to walk
With that old sorcerer Fable, hand in hand,
Adown the shadowy vale of History:
There is no other wand potent as his,

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"Advance – Come Forth From Thy Tyrolean Ground"

© William Wordsworth

ADVANCE-come forth from thy Tyrolean ground,

Dear Liberty! stern Nymph of soul untamed;

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The Ancient Banner

© Anonymous

In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,

The bosom of his Father, and assumed

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Shelley's Centenary

© William Watson

Within a narrow span of time,
Three princes of the realm of rhyme,
At height of youth or manhood's prime,
  From earth took wing,
To join the fellowship sublime
  Who, dead, yet sing.

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Pictures From Appledore

© James Russell Lowell

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A heap of bare and splintery crags

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On A Plant Of Virgin's-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat

© William Cowper

Thrive, gentle plant! and weave a bower
For Mary and for me,
And deck with many a splendid flower
Thy foliage large and free.

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Independence

© Charles Churchill

Happy the bard (though few such bards we find)

Who, 'bove controlment, dares to speak his mind;