Faith poems

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Lyrical Ballads (1798)

© William Wordsworth

LYRICAL BALLADS,WITHA FEW OTHER POEMS.

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The Recruit

© Coleman Helena Jane

Through all the anguish of these days, The haunting horror and the woe,One thought can set my heart ablaze My memory aglow.

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The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales

© Geoffrey Chaucer

¶The
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loge / of the Reues tale Whan folk hadde laughen / at this nyce cas Of Ab{s}olon / and hende Nicholas Di
uer

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Hudibras: Part I

© Samuel Butler

THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTO

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Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXXIX

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Because thou hast the power and own'st the graceTo look through and behind this mask of me(Against which, years have beat thus blanchinglyWith their rains,) and behold my soul's true face,The dim and weary witness of life's race,-Because thou hast the faith and love to see,Through that same soul's distracting lethargy,The patient angel waiting for a placeIn the new Heavens,-because nor sin nor woe,Nor God's infliction, nor death's neighbourhood,Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,Nor all which makes me tired of all, self-viewed,-Nothing repels thee,

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Sonnets from the Portuguese: XLIII

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

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The Testament of Beauty

© Robert Seymour Bridges

from Book I, Introduction

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1908

© Christopher John Brennan

The droning tram swings westward: shrillthe wire sings overhead, and chillmidwinter draughts rattle the glassthat shows the dusking way I passto yon four-turreted square towerthat still exalts the golden hourwhere youth, initiate once, endearsa treasure richer with the years

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The Photographer

© Bramer Shannon

What it means to carry a camerais to speak out of the emptyframe seeing God, Sky, Road, her returnand faith in the perfection of deserts

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Cosmographia

© Boughn Michael

Book 1: Razzamatootie

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CLXXXVIII

© Boker George Henry

My darling's features, painted by the light;As in the convex of a mirror, seeHer face diminished so fantasticallyIt scarcely hints her lovely self aright

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To One on her Birthday

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

How shall I choose to wish you happinessOn this day or another? Your life's wayHas passed already far beyond our guess,Who only watch and wait for you and pray

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The Grave

© Jean Blewett

O the grave is a quiet place, my dear, So still and so quiet by night and by day,Reached by no sound either joyous or drear, But keeping its silence alway, alway.