Health poems

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Songs with Preludes: Lamentation

© Jean Ingelow

I read upon that book,

Which down the golden gulf doth let us look

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Our Jack

© Henry Kendall

Twelve years ago our Jack was lost. All night,

Twelve years ago, the Spirit of the Storm

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To She Who Is Too Light-hearted

© Charles Baudelaire

Your head, your gesture, your air,
are lovely, like a lovely landscape:
laughter’s alive, in your face,
a fresh breeze in a clear atmosphere.

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At A Dinner To Admiral Farragut

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

JULY 6, 1865

Now, smiling friends and shipmates all,

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The Rendition

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I HEARD the train's shrill whistle call,
I saw an earnest look beseech,
And rather by that look than speech
My neighbor told me all.

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A Testimony

© Christina Georgina Rossetti

I said of laughter: it is vain.
 Of mirth I said: what profits it?
 Therefore I found a book, and writ
Therein how ease and also pain,
How health and sickness, every one
Is vanity beneath the sun.

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Rhymed Plea For Tolerance - Dialogue I

© John Kenyon

  Yet the heart vents still more indignant blame,
  Where Lawgivers their sullen codes proclaim,
  And idly would constrain the creed within,
  As if Belief were Crime, and Tolerance—Sin.

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A Mystery

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

They are dying! they are dying! where the golden corn is growing,
They are dying! they are dying! where the crowded herds are lowing;
They are gasping for existence where the streams of life are flowing,
And they perish of the plague where the breeze of health is blowing!

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The Patteran

© Henry Lawson

I have given the love for their native land, wherever that land may be
(My children came from the East, my friends, and round by the Northern Sea),
And a son of a son of mine enemy, to the end of his treacherous line,
Shall be stricken to earth, if he dare but speak, by a son of a son of mine.
That the world shall know and my name shall glow in the light of the aftershine,
I have set the lines on my children’s palms as my fathers did on mine.

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When The Hearse Comes Back

© James Whitcomb Riley

A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet

Is some poor feller's funeral a-joggin' 'long the street:

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The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius - Book II.

© James Beattie

I.
Of chance or change O let not man complain,
Else shall he never never cease to wail:
For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain

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Little Fellow

© Edgar Albert Guest

OH, you laughing little fellow, with your eyes agleam with fun,
And your golden curls a-mockin' all the splendor of the sun,
With your cheeks a wee bit redder than the petals of the rose,
You don't know just what you mean to your daddy, I suppose.

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Epigram

© Adelaide Crapsey

If illness' end be health regained then I

Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die.

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Saul And David

© Richard Monckton Milnes

``An evil spirit lieth on our King!''
So went the wailful tale up Israel,
From Gilgal unto Gibeah; town and camp
Caught the sad fame that spread like pestilence,

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The Grand Consulation

© George Canning

If the health and the strength, and the pure vital breath
Of old England, at last must be doctor'd to death,
Oh! why must we die of one doctor alone?
And why must that doctor be just such a one
 As Doctor Henry Addington?

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Ode II: To Sleep

© Mark Akenside

I.

Thou silent power, whose welcome sway

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The Changes: To Corinne

© Robert Herrick

Be not proud, but now incline

Your soft ear to discipline;

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Ode Written For The Celebration Of The Cochituate Water Into The City Of Boston

© James Russell Lowell

My name is Water: I have sped
  Through strange, dark ways, untried before,
By pure desire of friendship led,
  Cochituate's ambassador;
He sends four royal gifts by me:
Long life, health, peace, and purity.

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Poem At The Centennial Anniversary Dinner Of The Massachusetts Medical Society

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

Each has his gifts, his losses and his gains,
Each his own share of pleasures and of pains;
No life-long aim with steadfast eye pursued
Finds a smooth pathway all with roses strewed;
Trouble belongs to man of woman born,--
Tread where he may, his foot will find its thorn.

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Life Without Health

© William Watson

Behold life builded as a goodly house

And grown a mansion ruinous