All Poems

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A Fragment Of Simonides

© Henry James Pye

Danaë, with her infant Son Perseus, was exposed in a Vessel to the fury of the waves, by order of her Father Acrisius.


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Fragment VI

© James Macpherson

Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian,
Prince of men! what tears run down
the cheeks of age? what shades thy
mighty soul?

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A Song Of Painting: To General Cao Ba

© Du Fu

You, General Cao Ba,

  descendant of Cao Cao,

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A Woman's Complaint

© Anonymous

I know that deep within your heart of hearts
You hold me shrined apart from common things,
And that my step, my voice, can bring to you
A gladness that no other pleasure brings.

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The Seven Isles

© Robert Laurence Binyon

I dream of western waters, and of the Seven Isles,
And of mornings when they appear
Flowering out of the mist on a sea of smiles,
Warm and familiar and near.

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Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter V

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Griselda's madness lasted forty days,
Forty eternities! Men went their ways,
And suns arose and set, and women smiled,
And tongues wagged lightly in impeachment wild

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Peggy

© Allan Ramsay

My Peggy is a young thing,

Just enter'd in her teens,

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Survival

© Edith Wharton

When you and I, like all things kind or cruel,
The garnered days and light evasive hours,
Are gone again to be a part of flowers
And tears and tides, in life’s divine renewal,

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The Poet’s Lot

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

WHAT is a poet's love?--
To write a girl a sonnet,
To get a ring, or some such thing,
And fustianize upon it.

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Love

© John Kenyon

"Mother! I've seen a little boy

  With curling locks and eyes of blue;

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Two Or Three

© John Keats

Two or three Posies
With two or three simples--
Two or three Noses
With two or three pimples--

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Ballad Of Human Life

© Thomas Lovell Beddoes

WHEN we were girl and boy together,  

 We toss’d about the flowers  

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Kidnaped

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

I HELD my heart so far from harm,

I let it wander far and free

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Epilogue Intended To Have Been Spoken For 'She Stoops To Conquer'

© Oliver Goldsmith

'Enter' MRS. BULKLEY,
'who curtsies very low as beginning to speak.
Then enter' MISS CATLEY,
'who stands full before her, and curtsies to the audience'.

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Carmen Seculare For The Year 1800

© Henry James Pye

I.

  Incessant down the stream of Time

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The Dreamers

© William Wilfred Campbell

THEY lingered on the middle heights
  Betwixt the brown earth and the heaven;
They whispered, 'We are not the night's,
  But pallid children of the even.'

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The Swan-Neck

© Charles Kingsley

Thus fell Harold, bracelet-giver;
Jesu rest his soul for ever;
Angles all from thrall deliver;
Miserere Domine.

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Deus Misereatur

© Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

PLEASANT the ways whereon our feet were led,
Sweet the young hills, the valleys of content,
But now the hours of dew and dream have fled.
Lord, we are spent.

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The Song Of Hiawatha XVIII: The Death Of Kwasind

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Far and wide among the nations

Spread the name and fame of Kwasind;

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The Temperance Army

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Though you see no banded army,

Though you hear no cannons rattle,