History poems

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Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur

© Lewis Carroll

 "And would you be a poet
 Before you've been to school?
 Ah, well! I hardly thought you
 So absolute a fool.
 First learn to be spasmodic -
 A very simple rule.

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To The Romantic Traditionists

© Allen Tate

I have looked at them long,
My eyes blur; sourceless light
Keeps them forever young
Before our ageing sight.

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Worth Forest

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Come, Prudence, you have done enough to--day--
The worst is over, and some hours of play
We both have earned, even more than rest, from toil;
Our minds need laughter, as a spent lamp oil,

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The Witch's Frolic

© Richard Harris Barham

Thou mayest have read, my little boy Ned,
Though thy mother thine idlesse blames,
In Doctor Goldsmith's history book,
Of a gentleman called King James,
In quilted doublet, and great trunk breeches,
Who held in abhorrence tobacco and witches.

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Napoleon

© George Meredith

Alive in marble, she conceived in soul,
With barren eyes and mouth, the mother's loss;
The bolt from her abandoned heaven sped;
The snowy army rolling knoll on knoll
Beyond horizon, under no blest Cross:
By the vulture dotted and engarlanded.

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Laus Mariae

© Sidney Lanier

Across the brook of Time man leaping goes
On stepping-stones of epochs, that uprise
Fixed, memorable, midst broad shallow flows
Of neutrals, kill-times, sleeps, indifferencies.

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Sunthin' In The Pastoral Line

© James Russell Lowell

Now I wuz settin' where I'd ben, it seemed,
An' ain't sure yit whether I rally dreamed,
Nor, ef I did, how long I might ha' slep',
When I hearn some un stompin' up the step,
An' lookirz' round, ef two an' two make four,
I see a Pilgrim Father in the door.

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Past One O'Clock, shorter version

© Vladimir Mayakovsky

Past one o'clock. You must have gone to bed.

The Milky Way streams silver through the night.

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The Municipal Gallery Revisited

© William Butler Yeats

AROUND me the images of thirty years:

An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side;

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Before the Throne of Beauty XXVI

© Khalil Gibran

One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and directed my weary step to the spacious alley

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The Masque Of Pandora

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THE VOICE.
Not finished till I breathe the breath of life
Into her nostrils, and she moves and speaks.

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On Poverty Elimination

© Sukasah Syahdan

Make Poverty History
is history
in the making.

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A Brief History of Gods

© Sukasah Syahdan

First, we worshipped the inanimate.
Next, we learned to worship the gods
Later, we discovered the Deity.
Then, dazzled by our own Reason

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Doggy

© Sukasah Syahdan

our doggy
needs to be warned
to not approach mr. w's house

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The Hypermarket

© Sukasah Syahdan

history is a hurried
checklist of the goods
mankind wishes
to unforget

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Your Voices Joined Is All It Takes

© Ivan Donn Carswell

They came in masted wooden ships across
an unindentured sea and cast their lot in ocean
swells to chance at history, and Sovereign power
commanded thus they rot in purgatory.

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Your noble reign

© Ivan Donn Carswell

The man whose term we would remember as our longest,
constant serving Head of State, besides the late Sir Robert
Gordon Menzies, turned 67 yesterday. Congratulations John,
you’ve run a long and torrid race, kept up a frenzied pace

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Olmecs rule

© Ivan Donn Carswell

The news is out, down Veracruz they found the evidence,
Olmecs had the written word 400 years before Sumerians.
A Chinese claim predates all that, but let it rest.
Examine what it means to Mesoamericans!

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I’ll have to change my mind

© Ivan Donn Carswell

I’ll have to change my mind on war, I need to take a break
from structured thought; there’s more to peace - it dictates
a longer oar to keep the calm than takes to make a little war.
Our history as a people is a theatre of strife and where

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If democratically elected

© Ivan Donn Carswell

What is it with Hezbollah
representing barely 15%
of the Lebanese Parliament
living outside the government