Friendship poems

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Beowulf

© Anonymous

Hwæt

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The Campaign

© Joseph Addison

While crowds of princes your deserts proclaim,Proud in their number to enroll your name;While emperors to you commit their cause,And Anna's praises crown the vast applause,Accept, great leader, what the muse indites,That in ambitious verse records your fights,Fir'd and transported with a theme so new:Ten thousand wonders op'ning to my viewShine forth at once, sieges and storms appear,And wars and conquests fill th' important year,Rivers of blood I see, and hills of slain;An Iliad rising out of one campaign

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The Wants of Man

© Adams John Quincy

Man wants but little here below,Nor wants that little long. -- Goldsmith's Hermit

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Love Elegy, to Henry

© Amelia Opie

Then thou hast learnt the secret of my soul,
Officious Friendship has its trust betrayed;
No more I need the bursting sigh control,
Nor summon pride my struggling soul to aid.

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The Field Of Battle

© James Henry Leigh Hunt

The Deed of Blood is o'er!
  And, hark, the Trumpet's mournful breath
  Low murmurs round it a Note of Death—
  The Mighty are no more!

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Henry And Emma. A Poem.

© Matthew Prior

Where beauteous Isis and her husband Thame
With mingled waves for ever flow the same,
In times of yore an ancient baron lived,
Great gifts bestowed, and great respect received.

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Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference

© William Cowper

And dwells there in a female heart,
By bounteous heaven design'd
The choicest raptures to impact,
To feel the most refined;

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Peruvian Tales: Alzira, Tale II

© Helen Maria Williams

PIZARRO lands with the Forces-His meeting with ATALIBA -Its un-
happy consequences-ZORAI dies-ATALIBA imprisoned, and strangled
-Despair of ALZIRA .

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Glorious France

© Edgar Lee Masters

You have become a forge of snow-white fire,

A crucible of molten steel, O France!

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Friendship

© Samuel Johnson

Friendship! peculiar boon of Heaven,
The noble mind's delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower world denied.

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Sonnet To Mrs. Jameson,

© Frances Anne Kemble

WHO WROTE UNDER MY LIKENESS AS JULIET, "LIETI GIORNI E FELICE."

  Whence should they come, lady! those happy days

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"Grief sat beside the fount of tears"

© Richard Monckton Milnes

Grief sat beside the fount of tears,
And dipt her garland in it,
While all the paly flowers she wears
Grew fainter every minute.

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Economy, A Rhapsody, Addressed to Young Poets

© William Shenstone

Insanis; omnes gelidis quaecunqne lacernis
Sunt tibi, Nasones Virgiliosque vides. ~Mart.
Imitation.
--Thou know'st not what thou say'st;
In garments that scarce fence them from the cold
Our Ovids and our Virgils you behold.

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The Secret Whisky Cure

© Henry Lawson

’Twas a common sordid marriage, and there’s little new to tell—
Save the pub to him was Heaven and his own home was a hell:
With the office in between them—purgatory to be sure—
And, as far as Jones could make out—well, there wasn’t any cure.

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Epilogue To The Breakfast-Table Series

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

AUTOCRAT-PROFESSOR-POET

AT A BOOKSTORE

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Rhymed Plea For Tolerance - Dialogue II.

© John Kenyon


A.—
  By no faint shame withheld from general gaze,
  'Tis thus, my friend, we bask us in the blaze;
  Where deeds, more surface-smooth than inly bright,
  Snatch up a transient lustre from the light.

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In Memory of General Grant

© Henry Abbey

WHITE wings of commerce sailing far,

  Hot steam that drives the weltering wheel,

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The Episode Of Nisus And Euryalus

© George Gordon Byron

  'In vain you damp the ardour of my soul,'
Replied Euryalus; 'it scorns control!
Hence, let us haste! '- their brother guards arose,
Roused by their call, nor court again repose;
The pair, bouyed up on Hope's exulting wing,
Their stations leave, and speed to seek the king.