All Poems

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Sonnet II.

© Christopher Pearse Cranch

PARTED by time and space for many a year,
Yet ever longing, hoping for a day
When, heart to heart, the happy weeks shall stay
Their flight for us, and all our sky be clear

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Leeburn Mill

© William Barnes

Ov all the meäds wi' shoals an' pools,

  Where streams did sheäke the limber zedge,

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The Burial Of Sir John Mackenzie

© Jessie Mackay

They played him home to the House of Stones

All the way, all the way,

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Foreword to “Weeds By The Wall”

© Madison Julius Cawein

_In the first rare spring of song,
  In my heart's young hours,
  In my youth 't was thus I sang,
  Choosing 'mid the flowers:--_

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Cupid's Arrows

© Rudyard Kipling

Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide,

By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried;

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Friendship Immortal

© Jeremy Taylor

To me though distant let thy friendship fly;
Though men be mortal, friendships must not die;
Of all things else ther's great satiety.

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To Dr. Moore,

© Helen Maria Williams

IN ANSWER TO A POETICAL EPISTLE WRITTEN TO

ME BY HIM IN WALES, SEPTEMBER 1791.

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The Builder

© Duncan Campbell Scott

WHEN the deep cunning architect

Had the great minster planned,

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The Faun

© Ezra Pound

Ha! sir, I have seen you sniffing and snoozling

about among my flowers.

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If I To You But Sorry Bring

© Alfred Austin

If I to you but sorrow bring,

But aching hours and brackish tears,

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Farewell To Malta

© George Gordon Byron

Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!
Adieu, sirocco, sun, and sweat!
Adieu, thou palace rarely enter'd!
Adieu, ye mansions where I've ventured!

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The Age Of Ink

© Edgar Albert Guest

Swiftly the changes come. Each day

Sees some lost beauty blown away

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Good Temper

© Charles Lamb

In whatsoever place resides
Good Temper, she o'er all presides;
The most obdurate heart she guides.

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Antiquary

© John Donne

If in his study he hath so much care

To hang all old strange things, let his wife beware.

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To The Master Of The _Meteor_

© Herman Melville

Lonesome on earth's loneliest deep,
Sailor! who dost thy vigil keep--
Off the Cape of Storms dost musing sweep
Over monstrous waves that curl and comb;
Of thee we think when here from brink
We blow the mead in bubbling foam.

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The Decree Of Athena

© Aeschylus

Hear ye my statute, men of Attica--

  Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause;

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The Ghost's Story

© Duncan Campbell Scott

All my life long I heard the step
  Of some one I would know,
Break softly in upon my days
  And lightly come and go.

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Thou Dost Not Know

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Thou dost not know it! but to hear
One word of praise from thee,
There is no pain I would not bear,
No task too great for me.

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Per mels cobrir lo mal pes (Anne)

© Bernard de Ventadorn

Per melhs cobrir lo mal pes e.l cossire
chan e deport et ai joi e solatz;
e fatz esfortz car sai chantar ni rire,
car eu me mor e nul semblan no.n fatz;
e per Amor sui si apoderatz,
tot m'a vencut a forsa e batalha.

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Sea-Shells

© Edith Nesbit

I gathered shells upon the sand,

Each shell a little perfect thing,