Happiness poems

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A Child's Hair

© William Watson

A letter from abroad. I tear
Its sheathing open, unaware
What treasure gleams within; and there-
 Like bird from cage-
Flutters a curl of golden hair
 Out of the page.

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A Tragi-Comedy

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

'Twas on a gloomy afternoon

When all the world was out of tune,

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Moly

© Madison Julius Cawein

And these things then shall keep me company:
The elfins of the dew; the spirit of laughter
Who haunts the wind; the god of melody
Who sings within the stream, that reaches after

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Tied Down

© Edgar Albert Guest

"They tie you down," a woman said,

Whose cheeks should have been flaming red

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The Truant Dove, From Pilpay

© Charlotte Turner Smith

A MOUNTAIN stream, its channel deep

Beneath a rock's rough base had torn;

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The Columbiad: Book IX

© Joel Barlow

Shrouded in deeper darkness now he veers
The vast gyration of a thousand years,
Strikes out each lamp that would illume his way,
Disputes his food with every beast of prey;
Imbands his force to fence his trist abodes,
A wretched robber with his feudal codes.

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A Lounger

© James Whitcomb Riley

He leant against a lamp-post, lost

  In some mysterious reverie:

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Steam In the Desert

© Ebenezer Elliott

"God made all nations of one blood,"
And bade the nation-wedding flood
Bear good for good to men:
Lo, interchange is happiness! -
The mindless are the riverless!
The shipless have no pen!

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Gitanjali

© Rabindranath Tagore

1.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

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The Fairy Of The Fountains

© Letitia Elizabeth Landon

And a youthful warrior stands
Gazing not upon those bands,
Not upon the lovely scene,
But upon its lovelier queen,
Who with gentle word and smile
Courteous prays his stay awhile.

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In Salem Dwelt a Glorious King

© Thomas Traherne

1

In Salem dwelt a glorious King,

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The Chipmunk

© Madison Julius Cawein

I

He makes a roadway of the crumbling fence,

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Paradise Lost : Book VI.

© John Milton


All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued,

Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn,

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Thoughts on Predestination and Reprobation : Part III.

© John Byrom

Whereas, this Reprobation Doctrine, here,

Not only Sense and Reason would cashier;

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To A Young Lady, Who Was Fond Of Fortune-Telling

© Matthew Prior

You, Madam, may, with safety go

Decrees of destiny to know;

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Me’th Below The Tree

© William Barnes

O when theäse elems' crooked boughs,

  A'most too thin to sheäde the cows,

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The Loves of the Angels

© Thomas Moore

Alas! that Passion should profane
Even then the morning of the earth!
That, sadder still, the fatal stain
Should fall on hearts of heavenly birth-
And that from Woman's love should fall
So dark a stain, most sad of all!

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A Fable

© Jane Taylor

ONE day a sage knocked at a chemist's door,

Bringing a curious compound to explore.--

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Childless

© Edgar Albert Guest

If certain folks that I know well

Should come to me their woes to tell

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Not Worth the toil!

© Shams al-Din Hafiz

NOT all the sum of earthly happiness
Is worth the bowed head of a moment's pain,
And if I sell for wine my dervish dress,
Worth more than what I sell is what I gain!