Happy poems

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not happy eNding

© KateZ

your music playin in bsplayer
while your soul is somewhere
around us or in heaven
two different beings connected

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To Qiwu Qian Bound Home After Failing In An Examination

© Wang Wei

In a happy reign there should be no hermits;


The wise and able should consult together....

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The Emigrants: Book II

© Charlotte Turner Smith

Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to the North of the Weald of Sussex. Time, an Afternoon in April, 1793.


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The Emigrants: Book I

© Charlotte Turner Smith

Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of

Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.

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To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the N

© Alfred Tennyson

Poet of the happy Tityrus
piping underneath his beechen bowers;
Poet of the poet-satyr
whom the laughing shepherd bound with flowers;

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Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead?

© Alfred Tennyson

If such a dreamy touch should fall,
O turn thee round, resolve the doubt;
My guardian angel will speak out
In that high place, and tell thee all.

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In Memoriam A. H. H.: Is it, then, regret for buried time

© Alfred Tennyson

Yet less of sorrow lives in me
For days of happy commune dead;
Less yearning for the friendship fled,
Than some strong bond which is to be.

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In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure

© Alfred Tennyson

O true and tried, so well and long,
Demand not thou a marriage lay;
In that it is thy marriage day
Is music more than any song.

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Restless Leg Syndrome

© James Tate

After the burial

we returned to our units

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Happy As The Day Is Long

© James Tate

I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room.

Today's big news: they found Amelia Earhart's shoe, size 9.

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Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters

© Edmund Spenser

Most happy letters, fram'd by skilful trade,

With which that happy name was first design'd:

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A Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty

© Edmund Spenser

Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought,

Through contemplation of those goodly sights,

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Written among the Euganean Hills North Italy

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

MANY a green isle needs must be


In the deep wide sea of Misery,

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When Ure Hero Falls

© Tupac Shakur

when your hero falls from grace


all fairy tales r uncovered

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Sonnet XXV

© William Shakespeare

Let those who are in favour with their stars

Of public honour and proud titles boast,

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Miracle Ice Cream

© Adrienne Rich

Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.

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Modern Love XXXIV: Madam Would Speak With Me

© George Meredith

Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes:

The Deluge or else Fire! She's well, she thanks

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On Frozen Fields

© Galway Kinnell

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You in whose ultimate madness we live,
You flinging yourself out into the emptiness,
You - like us - great an instant,

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Death and Fame

© Allen Ginsberg

When I die

I don't care what happens to my body

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The Murmur Of The Forest

© Mihai Eminescu

On the pond bright sparks are falling,
Wavelets in the sunlight glisten ;
Gazing on the woods with rapture ,
Do I let my spirit capture
Drowsiness, and lie and listen...
Quails are calling.