Smile poems

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Your Strange Hair

© Renee Vivien

Your strange hair, cold light,
Has pale glows and blond dullness;
Your gaze has the blue of ether and waves;
Your gown has the chill of the breeze and the woods.

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Epilogue To 'She Stoops To Conquer'

© Oliver Goldsmith

WELL, having stoop'd to conquer with success,

And gain'd a husband without aid from dress,

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Real Help

© Edgar Albert Guest

If you can smooth his path a bit,

Bring laughter to his worried face,

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Der Freischutz

© Madison Julius Cawein

He? why, a tall Franconian strong and young,

  Brown as a walnut the first frost hath hulled;

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Songs Of Seven (complete)

© Jean Ingelow

There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover,
  There’s no rain left in heaven:
I’ve said my “seven times” over and over,
  Seven times one are seven.

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Love In Disguise

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

"Oh! I am Love," she whispered low,
"And fain I too with Death would go;
My lover—cold is he,
Who bids me fly the trysting-place."
She raised the veil from off her face—
My Phyllis smiled on me!

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Gone

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Another hand is beckoning us,
Another call is given;
And glows once more with Angel-steps
The path which reaches Heaven.

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A Carrier Song

© Francis Thompson

I.

Since you have waned from us,

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Indian Dancers

© Sarojini Naidu

Eyes  ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire
Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth heavens that glimmer around them in fountains of light;
O wild and entrancing the strain of keen music that cleaveth the stars like a wail of desire,
And beautiful dancers with houri-like faces bewitch the voluptuous watches of night.
The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,

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Grandpa's Christmas

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

In his great cushioned chair by the fender

An old man sits dreaming to-night,

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Stanzas. -- April, 1814

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon,
Rapid clouds have drank the last pale beam of even:
Away! the gathering winds will call the darkness soon,
And profoundest midnight shroud the serene lights of heaven.

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I’m So Good That I Don’t Have To Brag

© Sheldon Allan Silverstein

Now I'm warnin' all you women don't stand too close to me cause you might catch fire

Now you're talkin' to a man in a whole other kind of bag

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The Angel In The House. Book II. Canto III.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

III A Paradox
  To tryst Love blindfold goes, for fear
  He should not see, and eyeless night
  He chooses still for breathing near
  Beauty, that lives but in the sight.

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Hymn of Apollo

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.
The sleepless Hours who watch me as I lie,
Curtained with star-inwoven tapestries,
From the broad moonlight of the sky,

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The Little White Rabbit

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

‘May I go to the field,’ said the little white rabbit,

‘Where the corn grows sweet and high?’

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To His Sister Paolina,

© Giacomo Leopardi

ON HER APPROACHING MARRIAGE.


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The Pleasures of Imagination: Book The Third

© Mark Akenside

See! in what crouds the uncouth forms advance:
Each would outstrip the other, each prevent
Our careful search, and offer to your gaze,
Unask'd, his motley features. Wait awhile,
My curious friends! and let us first arrange
In proper order your promiscuous throng.

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Paranoid

© Sheldon Allan Silverstein

Everybody says I'm paranoid they all think I'm crazy
They all smile to my face but they'd like to see me die
They put poison in my coffee they put ground glass in my oatmeal
They put spiders in my tennis shoes and shit in my pecan pie

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Unknown Ideal

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

Whose is the voice that will not let me rest?

I hear it speak.