Smile poems

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Grotty And The Quarryman

© Barry Tebb

(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony')

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Prometheus Unbound

© Percy Bysshe Shelley


First Voice.
But never bowed our snowy crest
As at the voice of thine unrest.

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Obstacles

© Barry Tebb

A thousand visits to the supermarket

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Textures

© Barry Tebb

The grain of the exposed boards

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One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue – Part IV

© Madison Julius Cawein

  _They who die young are blest.--
  Should we not envy such?
  They are Earth's happiest,
  God-loved and favored much!--
  They who die young are blest._

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Give Me A Single Day

© Edgar Albert Guest

GIVE me a single day, I ask no more

From dawn to dusk, ah, that is time enough

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A Country Pathway

© James Whitcomb Riley

I come upon it suddenly, alone--
  A little pathway winding in the weeds
That fringe the roadside; and with dreams my own,
  I wander as it leads.

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Poet-in-residence

© Barry Tebb

You are my dream

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Paradise Regain'd : Book II.

© John Milton

Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained

At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen

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Asylum Seekers

© Barry Tebb

When Blunkett starts to talk like Enoch Powell

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Saint Edmond's Eve

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh! did you observe the Black Canon pass,
And did you observe his frown?
He goeth to say the midnight mass,
In holy St. Edmond's town.

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Infamous Poet

© Barry Tebb

I never did fit in – at six or sixty one –

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To The Sound Of Violins

© Barry Tebb

Give me life at its most garish

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The Reunion

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The gulf of seven and fifty years
We stretch our welcoming hands across;
The distance but a pebble's toss
Between us and our youth appears.

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The Waiter At The Camp

© Edgar Albert Guest

The officers' friend is the waiter at camp.
In the night air 'twas cold and was bitterly damp,
And they asked me to dine, which I readily did,
For at dining I've talents I never keep hid.
Then a bright-eyed young fellow came in with the meat,
And straightway the troop of us started to eat.

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I Heard Immanuel Singing

© Vachel Lindsay

(The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart in Heaven.)
I heard Immanuel singing
Within his own good lands,
I saw him bend above his harp.

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Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth

© George Gordon Byron

Ah!--What should follow slips from my reflection;

  Whatever follows ne'ertheless may be

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The Master of the Dance

© Vachel Lindsay

A chant to which it is intended a group of children shall dance and improvise pantomime led by their dancing-teacher.
IA master deep-eyed
Ere his manhood was ripe,
He sang like a thrush,

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To J.Q.

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

WHAT are the things that make life bright?

A star gleam in the night.

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Song. "No—not to win the world's applause"

© Frances Anne Kemble

No—not to win the world's applause

  Would I be great or good or wise;