Children poems

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Brothers, And A Sermon

© Jean Ingelow

“What, chorus! are you dumb? you should have cried,
‘So good comes out of evil;’” and with that,
As if all pauses it was natural
To seize for songs, his voice broke out again:

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War

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ambition, power, and avarice, now have hurled
Death, fate, and ruin, on a bleeding world.
See! on yon heath what countless victims lie,
Hark! what loud shrieks ascend through yonder sky;

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P’eng-ya Road

© Du Fu

I remember fleeing the rebels

through dangerous northern canyons,

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Halloween

© Virna Sheard

Hark! Hark to the wind!  'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away--
The dead, forgotten this many a day!

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In March

© Archibald Lampman

The last seared drifts are eating fast away
With glassy tinkle into glittering laces:
Dogs lie asleep, and little children play
With tops and marbles in the sun-bare places;
And I that stroll with many a thoughtful pause
Almost forget that winter ever was.

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A Song. For the Centennial Celebration of Harvard College

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

When the Puritans came over

Our hills and swamps to clear,

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The Fairy-Woman's Song

© Jean Ingelow

The fairy woman maketh moan,

 "Well-a-day, and well-a-day,

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book V - Part 05 - Origins Of Vegetable And Animal Life

© Lucretius

And now to what remains!- Since I've resolved

By what arrangements all things come to pass

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Eros

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

Bright thro' the valley gallops the brooklet;

  Over the welkin travels the cloud;

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Moses

© Thomas Parnell


Ile sing to God, Ile Sing ye songs of praise
To God triumphant in his wondrous ways,
To God whose glorys in the Seas excell,
Where the proud horse & prouder rider fell.

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Kwannon

© Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

  Camphor and wave-worn sandalwood for burning
  They bring to me alone,
  Shells that are veined like irises, and those
  Curved like the clear bright petals of a rose.
  Wherefore an hundredfold again returning
  I render them their own -

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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3.

© William Cowper

Eve.  Adam, my best beloved!
My guardian and my guide!
Thou source of all my comfort, all my joy!
Thee, thee alone I wish,
And in these pleasing shades
Thee only have I sought.

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Rizpah

© Henry Kendall

SAID one who led the spears of swarthy Gad,

To Jesse’s mighty son: “My Lord, O King,

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The Orchard And The Heath

© George Meredith

I chanced upon an early walk to spy
A troop of children through an orchard gate:
The boughs hung low, the grass was high;
They had but to lift hands or wait
For fruits to fill them; fruits were all their sky.

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Gisli: The Chieftain

© Isabella Valancy Crawford

To the Goddess Lada prayed
  Gisli, holding high his spear
Bound with buds of spring, and laughed
  All his heart to Lada's ear.

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Introduction: The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

© Hilaire Belloc

I call you bad, my little child,
Upon the title page,
Because a manner rude and wild
Is common at your age.

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Battle-Scene From the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer

© Sylvia Plath

It beguiles—
This little Odyssey
In pink and lavender
Over a surface of gently-

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book VI - Part 04 - The Plague Athens

© Lucretius

'Twas such a manner of disease, 'twas such

Mortal miasma in Cecropian lands

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The Rhymer’s Reply. Incense And Splendor

© Vachel Lindsay

Incense and Splendor haunt me as I go.

Though my good works have been, alas, too few,

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On An Old Sepuchral Bas-Relief

© Giacomo Leopardi

WHERE IS SEEN A YOUNG MAIDEN, DEAD, IN THE ACT OF DEPARTING,

TAKING LEAVE OF HER FAMILY.