Strength poems

 / page 41 of 186 /
star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Hard Times

© George MacDonald

I am weary, and very lonely,

And can but think-think.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Avenue Of The Allies

© Alfred Noyes

This is the song of the wind as it came

Tossing the flags of the nations to flame:

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Yarrow Revisited

© William Wordsworth

. The gallant Youth, who may have gained,

  Or seeks, a "winsome Marrow,"

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Kepler's Apostrophe

© James Joseph Sylvester

Yes! on the annals of my race,
  In characters of flame,
  Which time shall dim not nor deface,
  I'll stamp, my deathless name.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

On The Infancy Of Our Savior

© Francis Quarles

Hail! blessed Virgin, full of heavenly grace,

Blest above all that sprang from human race,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert

© William Cowper

The new-born child of gospel grace,
Like some fair tree when summer's nigh,
Beneath Emmanuel's shining face
Lifts up his blooming branch on high.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Student's Evening Hymn

© James Clerk Maxwell

I.

Now no more the slanting rays

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Xantippe(A Fragment)

© Amy Levy

What, have I waked again? I never thought

To see the rosy dawn, or ev'n this grey,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

O For A Soul

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

O for a soul surrendered of all guile!
A plain white soul with nothing on it writ,
No creed of mockery to make men smile,
No boast of wisdom travestied as wit;

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Plea

© Edgar Albert Guest

GOD grant me these:  the strength to do
Some needed service here;
The wisdom to be brave and true;
The gift of vision clear,
That in each task that comes to me
Some purpose I may plainly see.

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

When I Was King

© Henry Lawson

The second time I lived on earth

  Was several hundred years ago;

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Kalevala - Rune L

© Elias Lönnrot

MARIATTA--WAINAMOINEN'S DEPARTURE.


star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot The Tyrant

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

  'Choose Reform or Civil War,
When through thy streets, instead of hare with dogs,
A Consort-Queen shall hunt a King with hogs,
Riding on the IONIAN MINOTAUR.'

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Daniel Wheeler

© John Greenleaf Whittier

O Dearly loved!

And worthy of our love! No more

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. August

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

ON THE THAMES
The river Thames has many a dear delight
In summer days for souls which know not guile,
Or souls too careless of the vain world's spite

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Book Second [School-Time Continued]

© William Wordsworth

THUS far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much

Unvisited, endeavoured to retrace

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Don Juan: Canto The First

© George Gordon Byron

I want a hero: an uncommon want,

When every year and month sends forth a new one,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

Orlando Furioso Canto 10

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Another love assails Bireno's breast,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

She Mothered Five

© Edgar Albert Guest

She mothered five!

Night after night she watched a little bed,

star nullstar nullstar nullstar nullstar null

A Childhood

© Stephen Spender

In what purity of pleasure
You danced alone like a peasant
For the stamping joy's own sake!