Happy poems

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White Nassau

© Bliss William Carman

 She's ringed with surf and coral, she's crowned with sun and palm;
 She has the old-world leisure, the regal tropic calm;
 The trade winds fan her forehead; in everlasting June
 She reigns from deep verandas above her blue lagoon.

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Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove

© John Keats

As from the darkening gloom a silver dove

Upsoars, and darts into the eastern light,

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The Dance To Death. Act V

© Emma Lazarus


LIEBHAID.
The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.
Look forth, Claire; moves not some big thundercloud
Athwart the sky?  My heart is sick.

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Song V

© Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski

To Thee, eternal Defender of all creation,
I call, frail, commiserate, nowhere secure.
Keep me in close watch, and in my each anxiety,
Hasten to bring aid to my wretched soul.

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The War Sonnets: V The Soldier

© Rupert Brooke

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

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Leetle Lac Grenier

© William Henry Drummond

Leetle Lac Grenier, she 's all alone,
Right on de mountain top,
But cloud sweepin' by, will fin' tam to stop
No matter how quickly he want to go,
So he'll kiss leetle Grenier down below.

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Faith And Despondency

© Emily Jane Brontë

"The winter wind is loud and wild,
Come close to me, my darling child;
Forsake thy books, and mateless play;
And, while the night is gathering gray,
We'll talk its pensive hours away;-

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Aurora Leigh: Book Fourth

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


  She, at that,
Looked blindly in his face, as when one looks
Through driving autumn-rains to find the sky.
He went on speaking.

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Asleep! O Sleep A Little While, White Pearl!

© John Keats

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Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl!
And let me kneel, and let me pray to thee,
And let me call Heaven’s blessing on thine eyes,

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The Pierrot Of The Minute

© Ernest Christopher Dowson

_A glade in the Parc due Petit Trianon. In the centre a Doric temple with
steps coming down the stage. On the left a little Cupid on a pedestal.
Twilight._

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Eclogue the Fourth Agib

© William Taylor Collins

In vain Circassia boasts her spicy groves,
For ever famed for pure and happy loves;
In vain she boasts her fairest of the fair,
Their eyes' blue languish and their golden hair!
Those eyes in tears their fruitless grief must send;
Those hairs the Tartar's cruel hand shall rend.

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The Ballad of the Elder Son

© Henry Lawson

A son of elder sons I am,

  Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,

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Wollongong

© Henry Kendall

Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the time

When we trod these sands together, in our boyhood's golden prime;

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Orlando Furioso Canto 3

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT


Restored to sense, the beauteous Bradamant

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The Task: Book V. -- The Winter Morning Walk

© William Cowper

‘Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb

Ascending, fires the horizon; while the clouds,

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Two Songs

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

A BEE that was searching for sweets one day

Through the gate of a rose garden happened to stray.

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Morning

© John Keble

Hues of the rich unfolding morn,
That, ere the glorious sun be born,
By some soft touch invisible
Around his path are taught to swell; -

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To The Christian Reader

© Michael Wigglesworth

Reader, I am a fool;

And have adventured

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The Picture Of Sappho

© Caroline Norton

FAME, to thy breaking heart
No comfort could impart,
In vain thy brow the laurel wreath was wearing;
One grief and one alone
Could bow thy bright head down--
Thou wert a WOMAN, and wert left despairing!