Power poems

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Mare Rubrum

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

FLASH out a stream of blood-red wine,

For I would drink to other days,

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Naucratia; Or Naval Dominion. Part II.

© Henry James Pye

  Yet midst the scene of dread, when certain fate
  Rides on the tempest in terrific state,
  Bold in the face of death the naval train
  Exert their force, and brave the insulting main;
  Though rising horrors on their efforts lower,
  And the deaf whirlwind mock their useless power.

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Immorality

© Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer

Have you heard, my friend, the slander that the Negro has to face?
Immorality, the grossest, has been charged up to his race.
Listen, listen to my story, as I now proceed to tell
Of conditions in the Southland, where the mass of Negroes dwell.

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Prologue

© William Ernest Henley

Something is dead . . .

The grace of sunset solitudes, the march

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Jesus, Lord Of Heaven Above

© Anna Laetitia Waring

Jesus, Lord of Heaven above,
Earth beneath is all Thy own
In the depths of Heavenly love
Let my human heart be sown.

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Bonie Lesley

© Robert Burns

  The Deil he couldna scaith thee,
 Or aught that wad belang thee;
  He'd look into thy bonnie face
 And say, 'I canna wrang thee!'

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The Sentence Of John L. Brown

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Ho! thou who seekest late and long
A License from the Holy Book
For brutal lust and fiendish wrong,
Man of the Pulpit, look!

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Remembrance Of

© William Wordsworth

COMPOSED UPON THE THAMES NEAR RICHMOND
GLIDE gently, thus for ever glide,
O Thames! that other bards may see
As lovely visions by thy side

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Death’s Genius

© Johannes Carsten Hauch

Oh you who weep, brush all your tears aside!
And you who mourn, recall grief won’t abide!
For you’ll know rest when your heart beats no more,
Death’s angel you from all your wounds will cure.

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The World-Saver

© Edgar Lee Masters

If the grim Fates, to stave ennui,
Play whips for fun, or snares for game,
The liar full of ease goes free,
And Socrates must bear the shame.

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Homer's Hymn To The Earth: Mother Of All

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mother of gods, thou Wife of starry Heaven,
Farewell! be thou propitious, and be given
A happy life for this brief melody,
Nor thou nor other songs shall unremembered be.

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Pour Qui Sait Attendre

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

All things, they say, come home to those that wait,
Riches, power, fame, lost fortune, hope deferred,
Health to our friends, ill hap to those we hate,
Even love, that glorious paradisal bird,

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Ballad Of The Old Cypress

© Du Fu

In front of K'ung-ming Shrine
stands an old cypress,
With branches like green bronze
and roots like granite;

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A Prayer for the Past: All sights and sounds of day and yea

© George MacDonald

All sights and sounds of day and year,
All groups and forms, each leaf and gem,
Are thine, O God, nor will I fear
To talk to thee of them.

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Genesis BK XIX

© Caedmon

(ll. 1217-1224) Then Methuselah held sway among his kinsmen, and
longest of all men enjoyed the pleasures of this world.  He begat
a multitude of sons and daughters before his death.  And all the
years of Methuselah were nine hundred and seventy winters, and he
died.

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Viva Perpetua

© Archibald Lampman

The night is passing. In a few short hours
I too shall suffer for the name of Christ.
A boundless exaltation lifts my soul!
I know that they who left us, Saturus,
Perpetua, and the other blessed ones,
Await me at the opening gates of heaven.

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A Wreath Of Immortelles

© Ambrose Bierce

Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people tried
To push from power, here is laid aside.
Death only from the bench could ever start
The sluggish load of his immortal part.

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A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen

© William Cowper

Dear Anna, -- Between friend and friend,

Prose answers every common end;

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Hymns to the Night : 1

© Novalis

Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light - with its colors, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day? The giant-world of the unresting constellations inhales it as the innermost soul of life, and floats dancing in its blue flood - the sparkling, ever-tranquil stone, the thoughtful, imbibing plant, and the wild, burning multiform beast inhales it - but more than all, the lordly stranger with the sense-filled eyes, the swaying walk, and the sweetly closed, melodious lips. Like a king over earthly nature, it rouses every force to countless transformations, binds and unbinds innumerable alliances, hangs its heavenly form around every earthly substance. - Its presence alone reveals the marvelous splendor of the kingdoms of the world.


Aside I turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious Night. Afar lies the world - sunk in a deep grave - waste and lonely is its place. In the chords of the bosom blows a deep sadness. I am ready to sink away in drops of dew, and mingle with the ashes. - The distances of memory, the wishes of youth, the dreams of childhood, the brief joys and vain hopes of a whole long life, arise in gray garments, like an evening vapor after the sunset. In other regions the light has pitched its joyous tents. What if it should never return to its children, who wait for it with the faith of innocence?

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Religious Musings : A Desultory Poem Written On The Christmas Eve Of 1794

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  What tho' first,
In years unseason'd, I attuned the lay
To idle passion and unreal woe?
Yet serious truth her empire o'er my song