Happiness poems

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Vaudracour And Julia

© William Wordsworth

O HAPPY time of youthful lovers (thus
My story may begin) O balmy time,
In which a love-knot on a lady's brow
Is fairer than the fairest star in heaven!

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To The Spade Of A Friend (An Agriculturist)

© William Wordsworth

SPADE! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands,
And shaped these pleasant walks by Emont's side,
Thou art a tool of honour in my hands;
I press thee, through the yielding soil, with pride.

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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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Week-End

© Harold Monro

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The train! The twleve o'clock for paradise.
  Hurry, or it will try to creep away.
Out in the country every one is wise:

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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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An Epistle To William Hogarth

© Charles Churchill

Amongst the sons of men how few are known

Who dare be just to merit not their own!

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Pharsalia - Book V: The Oracle. The Mutiny. The Storm

© Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

  While soldier thus and chief,
In doubtful sort, against their hidden fate
Devised their counsel, Appius alone
Feared for the chances of the war, and sought
Through Phoebus' ancient oracle to break
The silence of the gods and know the end.

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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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Mons Angelorum

© Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Joshua –O father of my soul, I cannot tell.
  The burden of the Lord is heavy on me,
  And I am broken beneath it.

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Clock Striking

© Charles Lamb

Did I hear the church-clock a few minutes ago,
I was asked, and I answered, I hardly did know,
 But I thought that I heard it strike three.
Said my friend then, "The blessings we always possess
We know not the want of, and prize them the less;
 The church-clock was no new sound to thee.

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My Lady

© Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

(Español)
 Perdite, señora, quiero
de mi silencio perdón,
si lo que ha sido atención
le hace parecer grosero.

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The Cloud Messenger - Part 04

© Kalidasa

The slender young woman who is there would be the premier creation by the
Creator in the sphere of women, with fine teeth, lips like a ripe bimba fruit, a
slim waist, eyes like a startled gazelle’s, a deep navel, a gait slow on account
of the weight of her hips, and who is somewhat bowed down by her breasts.

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Rural Sports: A Georgic - Canto II.

© John Gay

Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,

Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.

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Seeking For Happiness

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Seeking for happiness we must go slowly;
The road leads not down avenues of haste;
But often gently winds through by ways lowly,
Whose hidden pleasures are serene and chaste.
Seeking for happiness we must take heed
Of simple joys that are not found in speed.

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The Flitting

© John Clare

I've left my own old home of homes,

  Green fields and every pleasant place;

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Verses by Lady Geralda

© Anne Brontë

Its sound was music then to me;
Its wild and lofty voice
Made by heart beat exultingly
And my whole soul rejoice.

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My Love

© James Russell Lowell

Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening-star,
And yet her heart is ever near.

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Indian Meditation

© Arthur Symons

Where shall this self at last find happiness?

O Soul, only in nothingness.

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PARADOX. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man

© Henry King

Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?
He may as useful, and more constant prove.
Experience shews you that maturer years
Are a security against those fears

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A Redeemer

© Robinson Jeffers

  But when I am dead and all you with whole
hands think of nothing but happiness,
Will you go mad and kill each other? Or horror come over
the ocean on wings and cover your sun?
I wish," he said trembling, "I had never been born."