History poems

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Marmion: Canto V. - The Court

© Sir Walter Scott

Oh! young Lochinvar is come out of the west,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best;
And save his good broadsword, he weapons had none,
He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone;
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

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Uriconium An Ode

© Wilfred Owen

It lieth low near merry England's heart

Like a long-buried sin; and Englishmen

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The Manor Garden

© Sylvia Plath

The fountains are dry and the roses over.
Incense of death. Your day approaches.
The pears fatten like little buddhas.
A blue mist is dragging the lake.

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The Disciple

© George MacDonald

The times are changed, and gone the day
When the high heavenly land,
Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,
And men could understand.

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An Ode

© Madison Julius Cawein

_In Commemoration of the Founding of the

  Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Year 1623._

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The Brothers

© William Wordsworth

"THESE Tourists, heaven preserve us! needs must live

A profitable life: some glance along,

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De Te

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

A burning glass of burnished brass,

The calm sea caught the noontide rays,

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Sermon In A Churchyard

© Thomas Babbington Macaulay

Let pious Damon take his seat,

With mincing step and languid smile,

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Elegiac Feelings American

© Gregory Corso

Aye, what happened to you, dear friend, compassionate friend,
is what is happening to everyone and thing of
planet the clamorous sadly desperate planet now
one voice less. . . expendable as the wind. . . gone,
and who'll now blow away the awful miasma of
sick, sick and dying earthflesh-soul America

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Galloping Hogan

© William Percy French

"They have sent for fresh artillery,

The guns are on the way,

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Report From The Besieged City

© Zbigniew Herbert

I am supposed to be exact but I don't know when the invasion began
two hundred years ago in December in September perhaps yesterday at dawn 
everyone here suffers from a loss of the sense of time

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Elegy XIX. - Written in Spring, 1743

© William Shenstone

Again the labouring hind inverts the soil;
Again the merchant ploughs the tumid wave;
Another spring renews the soldier's toil,
And finds me vacant in the rural cave.

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Lara. A Tale

© George Gordon Byron

Proud Otho on the instant, reddening, threw
His glove on earth, and forth his sabre flew.
"The last alternative befits me best,
And thus I answer for mine absent guest."

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Phantom Or Fact? A Dialogue In Verse

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friend.
This riddling Tale, to what does it belong?
Is't History? Vision? or an idle Song?
Or rather say at once, within what space
Of Time this wild disastrous change took place?

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My Secret. (From The French Of Felix Arvers)

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My soul its secret hath, my life too hath its mystery,

A love eternal in a moment's space conceived;

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Earth

© William Cullen Bryant

A midnight black with clouds is in the sky;

I seem to feel, upon my limbs, the weight

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Mencius

© Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Three centuries before the Christian age

  China's great teacher, Mencius, was born;

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Don Juan: Canto The Sixth

© George Gordon Byron

'There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which,--taken at the flood,'--you know the rest,

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The Progress Of Refinement. Part III.

© Henry James Pye

CONTENTS OF PART III. Introduction.—Comparison of ancient and modern Manners. —Peculiar softness of the latter.—Humanity in War.— Politeness.—Enquiry into the causes.—Purity of the Christian Religion.—Abolition of Slavery in Europe.— Remaining effects of Chivalry.—The behaviour of Edward the Black Prince, after the battle of Poitiers, contrasted with a Roman Triumph.—Tendency of firearms to abate the ferocity of war.—Duelling.—Society of Women.—Consequent prevalence of Love in poetical compositions. —Softness of the modern Drama.—Shakespear admired, but not imitated.—Sentimental Comedy.—Novels. —Diffusion of superficial knowledge.—Prevalence of Gaming in every state of mankind.—Peculiar effect of the universal influence of Cards on modern times.—Luxury.— Enquiry why it does not threaten Europe now, with the fatal consequences it brought on ancient Rome.—Indolence, and Gluttony, checked by the free intercourse with women.—Their dislike to effeminate men.—The frequent wars among the European Nations keep up a martial spirit.—Point of Honor.—Hereditary Nobility.—Peculiar situation of Britain.—Effects of Commerce when carried to excess.—Danger when money becomes the sole distinction. —Address to Men of ancient and noble families.— Address to the Ladies.—The Decline of their influence, a sure fore-runner of selfish Luxury.—Recapitulation and Conclusion.


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The Cross Roads; Or, The Haymaker's Story

© John Clare

  The maids, impatient now old Goody ceased,
As restless children from the school released,
Right gladly proving, what she'd just foretold,
That young ones' stories were preferred to old,
Turn to the whisperings of their former joy,
That oft deceive, but very rarely cloy.