Poems begining by J
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July
© Lionel Pigot Johnson
SUMMER lightning, and rich rain:
Roses perfume the hot air.
All the breathless night is faint,
All the flowery night is fair.
Philomel her joy or plaint
Sings, and sings, and sings again.
Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - part 03
© Torquato Tasso
XXIX
This youth was one of those, who late desired
joy-notes
© Rg Gregory
when the time comes
yield
to the forces outside you
images simply
of your inner compulsions
jack beyond the digits
© Rg Gregory
so here we are at last at the ten-boy
never to be the single-figure-aged-again boy
and all the trailing clouds that cling to the not-big child
can be blown away - you're up in your own sky now
clear-blue on some days (if on others windy and wild)
jerusalem and redcurrants
© Rg Gregory
my jerusalem
my newfoundland
juicy as redcurrants
with their sweet tang taste
Judgment Day
© Ellis Parker Butler
Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate,
All souls claims to adjudicate
Saying to some souls, "Enter in!"
"Go to Hell," to others, "you are steeped in sin."
Jabed Meeker, Humorist
© Ellis Parker Butler
You aint met him? Son, youve missed
The most funniest humorist
Ive met with in my born days
Funniest talker, anyways,
When it comes to repartee
Thats the humor catches me!
Journey Of The Magi
© Thomas Stearns Eliot
'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
Jehovah buried,Satan dead,
© Edward Estlin Cummings
King Christ,this world is all aleak;
and lifepreservers there are none:
and waves which only He may walk
Who dares to call Himself a man.
Javanese Dancers
© Arthur Symons
Twitched strings, the clang of metal, beaten drums,
Dull, shrill, continuous, disquieting:
And now the stealthy dancer comes
Undulantly with cat-like steps that cling;
Japan
© Billy Collins
Today I pass the time reading
a favorite haiku,
saying the few words over and over.
Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
© Walt Whitman
JOY! shipmatejoy!
(Pleasd to my Soul at death I cry;)
Our life is closedour life begins;
The long, long anchorage we leave,
John Kinsella's Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore
© William Butler Yeats
I
A bloody and a sudden end,
Gunshot or a noose,
Jesus, Thou Divine Companion
© Henry Van Dyke
Jesus, Thou divine Companion,
By Thy lowly human birth
Thou hast come to join the workers,
Burden bearers of the earth.
Jeanne d'Arc Returns
© Henry Van Dyke
1914-1916 What hast thou done, O womanhood of France,
Mother and daughter, sister, sweetheart, wife,
What hast thou done, amid this fateful strife,
To prove the pride of thine inheritance
Jeanne d'Arc
© Henry Van Dyke
The land was broken in despair,
The princes quarrelled in the dark,
When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air
Of selfish minds and wills that did not dare,
Your star arose, Jeanne d'Arc.
Journey's End
© John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise in Spring,
The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
John Brown: A Paradox
© Louise Imogen Guiney
Compassionate eyes had our brave John Brown,
And a craggy stern forehead, a militant frown;
He, the storm-bow of peace. Give him volley on volley,
The fool who redeemed us once of our folly,
And the smiter that healed us, our right John Brown!
Jewel Box
© Eamon Grennan
Your jewel box of white balsa strips
and bleached green Czechoslovakian rushes
