Poems begining by V

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Vœu d'un vanneur de blé, aux vents

© Joachim du Bellay

A vous, troppe legere,Qui d'æle passagerePar le monde volez,Et d'un sifflant murmureL'ombrageuse verdureDoulcement esbranlez,

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Vitæ Summa Brevis Spem nos Vetet Incohare Longam

© Ernest Christopher Dowson

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate;I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

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VillainElle

© Crosbie Lynn

for Aileen Wuornos

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Vowels

© Bök Christian

loveless vessels

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Visualization of Marxism

© Bell Julian Heward

Expose the world, anatomize,Strip clothes from skin, strip skin, then flesh, from bone

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Voronezh

© Aaron Rafi

The darkness drops its anchor on our lungs and wefeel the weight of each breath

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Vale

© Catherine Pozzi

La grande amour que vous m'aviez donnée
Le vent des jours a rompu ses rayons —
Où fut la flamme, où fut la destinée
Où nous étions, où par la main serrée
 Nous nous tenions

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Vanity Fair

© Sylvia Plath

Through frost-thick weather
This witch sidles, fingers crooked, as if
Caught in a hazardous medium that might
Merely by its continuing
Attach her to heaven.

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Valentine's Day

© Charles Kingsley

Oh! I wish I were a tiny browny bird from out the south,
Settled among the alder-holts, and twittering by the stream;
I would put my tiny tail down, and put up my tiny mouth,
And sing my tiny life away in one melodious dream.

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Vaudracour And Julia

© William Wordsworth

O HAPPY time of youthful lovers (thus
My story may begin) O balmy time,
In which a love-knot on a lady's brow
Is fairer than the fairest star in heaven!

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Valentine--To Lizzie Siddal

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

YESTERDAY was St. Valentine.

Thought you at all, dear dove divine,

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Verses Sent To A Lady, Who Took Delight In Ridiculing A Person

© Mary Barber

Should you employ your Ridicule,
On those who Pity claim?
Think, Birtha, is the native Fool
For Wit a proper Theme?

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Variations At Home And Abroad

© Kenneth Koch

It takes a lot of a person's life

To be French, or English, or American

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Verses Written on Her Death-Bed

© Mary Monck

Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ,

Thou pleasing source of all my earthly joy:

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Vox Ecclesiae, Vox Christi

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Not 'neath the altar only,—yet, in sooth,

There more than elsewhere,—is the cry, “How long?”

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Vision Of Columbus - Book 8

© Joel Barlow

And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,

Veil'd the wide world–when sudden shades of night

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Vanitie

© George Herbert

  The fleet Astronomer can bore

And thread the spheres with his quick-piercing minde

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Voice Of New England

© John Greenleaf Whittier

UP the hillside, down the glen,
Rouse the sleeping citizen;
Summon out the might of men!
Like a lion growling low,

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Voices Of The Night : The Reaper And The Flowers

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.

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Verses by Lady Geralda

© Anne Brontë

Its sound was music then to me;
Its wild and lofty voice
Made by heart beat exultingly
And my whole soul rejoice.