Family poems

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The Restoration Of The Royal Family

© John Keble

As when the Paschal week is o'er,
Sleeps in the silent aisles no more
  The breath of sacred song,
But by the rising Saviour's light
Awakened soars in airy flight,
  Or deepening rolls along;

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A Dramatic Fragment

© Charles Lamb

"Fie upon't!
All men are false, I think. The date of love
Is out, expired, its stories all grown stale,
O'erpast, forgotten, like an antique tale
Of Hero and Leander."

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The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1.

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  _Lucifer._ HASTEN! hasten!
O ye spirits!
From its station drag the ponderous
Cross of iron, that to mock us
Is uplifted high in air!

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Shakuntala Act III

© Kalidasa


ACT III
SCENE –The HERMITAGE in a Grove.
The Hermit's Pupil bearing consecrated grass.

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Shakuntala Act II

© Kalidasa

ACT II

SCENE – A PLAIN, with royal pavilions on the skirt of the forest.

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Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot The Tyrant

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

  'Choose Reform or Civil War,
When through thy streets, instead of hare with dogs,
A Consort-Queen shall hunt a King with hogs,
Riding on the IONIAN MINOTAUR.'

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Helian

© Georg Trakl

In the spirit’s solitary hours
It is lovely to walk in the sun
Along the yellow walls of summer.
Quietly whisper the steps in the grass; yet always sleeps
The son of Pan in the grey marble.

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Don Juan: Canto The First

© George Gordon Byron

I want a hero: an uncommon want,

When every year and month sends forth a new one,

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Blaney's Last Directions

© Benjamin Jonson

It is my earnest request that no person
on any pretence whatever
may be permitted to see my
corpse
but those who
unavoidably must.

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Thoughts At A Vestibule

© Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov

Heavenly thunder doesn't frighten you,
Earthly thunders you hold in your hands
That is why these unknown men must carry
Grief disconsolate within their hearts.

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Don Juan: Canto The Seventh

© George Gordon Byron

O Love! O Glory! what are ye who fly

Around us ever, rarely to alight?

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Italy : 26. The Campagna Of Florence

© Samuel Rogers

'Tis morning.  Let us wander through the fields,
Where Cimabue found a shepherd-boy
Tracing his idle fancies on the ground;
And let us from the top of Fiesole,

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Marriage

© Gregory Corso

Ah, yet well I know that were a woman possible as I am possible
then marriage would be possible-
Like SHE in her lonely alien gaud waiting her Egyptian lover
so I wait-bereft of 2,000 years and the bath of life.

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The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 2

© Publius Vergilius Maro

ALL were attentive to the godlike man,  

When from his lofty couch he thus began:  

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Antony Villa

© Henry Lawson

And the daughters of the Vardens—they are beautiful as Graces—
But the balcony’s deserted, and they rarely show their faces;
And the swells of their acquaintance never seem to venture near them,
And the bailiff says they seldom have a cup of tea to cheer them.

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter V - Count Guido Franceschini

© Robert Browning

“That is a way, thou whisperest in my ear!
“I doubt, I will decide, then act,” said I—
Then beckoned my companions: “Time is come!”

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Mira Danced with Ankle Bells

© Mirabai

Mira danced with ankle-bells on her feet.


People said Mira was mad; my mother-in-law

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The Gallows

© Edward Thomas

There was a weasel lived in the sun

With all his family,

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Book Eighth: Retrospect--Love Of Nature Leading To Love Of Man

© William Wordsworth

WHAT sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard

Up to thy summit, through the depth of air

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"Give Us A Call!"

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Give us a call! We keep good beer,

Wine, and brandy, and whiskey here;