Faith poems

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A Paranaeticall, Or Advisive Verseto His Friend, Mr John Wicks

© Robert Herrick

Is this a life, to break thy sleep,
To rise as soon as day doth peep?
To tire thy patient ox or ass
By noon, and let thy good days pass,

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A Country Life:to His Brother, Mr Thomas Herrick

© Robert Herrick

Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou,
In thy both last and better vow;
Could'st leave the city, for exchange, to see
The country's sweet simplicity;

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His Mistress To Him At His Farewell

© Robert Herrick

You may vow I'll not forget
To pay the debt
Which to thy memory stands as due
As faith can seal it you.

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Crutches

© Robert Herrick

Thou see'st me, Lucia, this year droop;
Three zodiacs fill'd more, I shall stoop;
Let crutches then provided be
To shore up my debility:

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Impossibilities: To His Friend

© Robert Herrick

My faithful friend, if you can see
The fruit to grow up, or the tree;
If you can see the colour come
Into the blushing pear or plum;

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Chartres

© Edith Wharton

IImmense, august, like some Titanic bloom,
The mighty choir unfolds its lithic core,
Petalled with panes of azure, gules and or,
Splendidly lambent in the Gothic gloom,

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Browning Decides To Be A Poet

© Jorge Luis Borges

in these red labyrinths of London
I find that I have chosen
the strangest of all callings,
save that, in its way, any calling is strange.

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Valentine

© Carol Ann Duffy

I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.

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The Great Adventure of Max Breuck

© Amy Lowell

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A yellow band of light upon the street
Pours from an open door, and makes a wide
Pathway of bright gold across a sheet

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Diya {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha}

© Amy Lowell

Look, Dear, how bright the moonlight is to-night!
See where it casts the shadow of that tree
Far out upon the grass. And every gust
Of light night wind comes laden with the scent

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The Little Garden

© Amy Lowell

A little garden on a bleak hillside
Where deep the heavy, dazzling mountain snow
Lies far into the spring. The sun's pale glow
Is scarcely able to melt patches wide

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Hero-Worship

© Amy Lowell

A face seen passing in a crowded street,
A voice heard singing music, large and free;
And from that moment life is changed, and we
Become of more heroic temper, meet

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A Fairy Tale

© Amy Lowell

On winter nights beside the nursery fire
We read the fairy tale, while glowing coals
Builded its pictures. There before our eyes
We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone

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The Bour-Tree Den

© Robert Louis Stevenson

CLINKUM-CLANK in the rain they ride,
Down by the braes and the grey sea-side;
Clinkum-clank by stane and cairn,
Weary fa' their horse-shoe-airn!

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Sonnet VIII

© Robert Louis Stevenson

As Daniel, bird-alone, in that far land,
Kneeling in fervent prayer, with heart-sick eyes
Turned thro' the casement toward the westering skies;
Or as untamed Elijah, that red brand

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Small Is The Trust When Love Is Green

© Robert Louis Stevenson

SMALL is the trust when love is green
In sap of early years;
A little thing steps in between
And kisses turn to tears.

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If This Were Faith

© Robert Louis Stevenson

God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff
And up to the buttocks in mire;
That I ask nor hope nor hire,

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Hail! Childish Slave Of Social Rules

© Robert Louis Stevenson

HAIL! Childish slaves of social rules
You had yourselves a hand in making!
How I could shake your faith, ye fools,
If but I thought it worth the shaking.

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Fixed Is The Doom

© Robert Louis Stevenson

FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years
Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child,
Each walks, though near, yet separate; each beholds
His dear ones shine beyond him like the stars.

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A Valentine's Song

© Robert Louis Stevenson

MOTLEY I count the only wear
That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise,
Who boldly smile upon despair
And shake their bells in Grandam Grundy's eyes.