Time poems

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The Unknown Eros

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Proem

  ‘Many speak wisely, some inerrably:

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Spring In War Time

© Sara Teasdale

I feel the spring far off, far off,
  The faint, far scent of bud and leaf --
Oh, how can spring take heart to come
  To a world in grief,
  Deep grief?

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The Sinner and The Spider

© John Bunyan

Not filthy as thyself in name or feature.
My name entailed is to my creation,
My features from the God of thy salvation.

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Homage To Quintus Septimus Florentis Christianus

© Ezra Pound

I
(Ex libris Graecæ)
Theodorus will be pleased at my death,
And .someone else will be pleased at the death of Theodoras,
And yet everyone speaks evil of death.

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The Falmouth Bell

© Katharine Lee Bates

Never was there lovelier town


Than our Falmouth by the sea.

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Uncle Out O’ Debt An’ Out O’ Danger

© William Barnes

  His meäre's long vlexy vetlocks grow'd
  Down roun' her hoofs so black an' brode;
  Her head hung low, her taïl reach'd down
  A-bobbèn nearly to the groun'.
  The cwoat that uncle mwostly wore
  Wer long behind an' straïght avore,

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The Conference

© Charles Churchill

Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree,

When they are told that grace was said by me;

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How Soon The Servant Sun

© Dylan Thomas

A leg as long as trees,
This inward sir,
Mister and master, darkness for his eyes,
The womb-eyed, cries,
And all sweet hell, deaf as an hour's ear,
Blasts back the trumpet voice.

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Orlando Furioso canto 13

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

The Count Orlando of the damsel bland

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Lines.—If we should ever meet again

© Louisa Stuart Costello

If we should ever meet again


 When many tedious years are past;

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The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto I

© Sir Walter Scott

XV
  River Spirit
"Sleep'st thou, brother?"-

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Senlin: A Biography Pt. 01:His Dark Origins

© Conrad Aiken

He lights his pipe with a pointed flame.
'Yet, there were many autumns before I came,
And many springs. And more will come, long after
There is no horn for me, or song, or laughter.

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The Welcome Home

© Charlotte Bronte

  Above the city hangs the moon,

  Some clouds are boding rain;

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Forgetful Pa

© Edgar Albert Guest

My Pa says that he used to be

A bright boy in geography;

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A Character

© William Wordsworth

I marvel how Nature could ever find space
For so many strange contrasts in one human face:
There's thought and no thought, and there's paleness and bloom
And bustle and sluggishness, pleasure and gloom.

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The Gipsy's Camp

© John Clare

How oft on Sundays, when I'd time to tramp,

My rambles led me to a gipsy's camp,

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Orlando Furioso Canto 8

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Rogero flies; Astolpho with the rest,

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The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies

© Thomas Hood

I
'Twas in that mellow season of the year
When the hot sun singes the yellow leaves
Till they be gold,—and with a broader sphere

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The Choice of Valentines

© Thomas Nashe

Pardon sweete flower of matchless Poetrie,

And fairest bud the red rose euer bare ;

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A Frightful Release

© Gertrude Stein

A BAG which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found