Poems begining by O

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On Being a Champion

© Mattie Stepanek

A Champion is a winner,
A hero...
Someone who never gives up
Even when the going gets rough.

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On The Sale By Auction Of Keats' Love Letters

© Oscar Wilde

Is it not said that many years ago,
In a far Eastern town, some soldiers ran
With torches through the midnight, and began
To wrangle for mean raiment, and to throw
Dice for the garments of a wretched man,
Not knowing the God's wonder, or His woe?

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On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester

© Thomas Warton

Where Venta's Norman castle still uprears

Its rafter'd hall, that o'er the grassy foss,

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Of Old Sat Freedom

© Alfred Tennyson

Of old sat Freedom on the heights,
The thunders breaking at her feet:
Above her shook the starry lights:
She heard the torrents meet.

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O that 'twere possible

© Alfred Tennyson

O THAT 'twere possible
After long grief and pain
To find the arms of my true love
Round me once again!...

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O Fool

© Rabindranath Tagore

Thy desire at once puts out the light from the lamp it touches with its breath.
It is unholy---take not thy gifts through its unclean hands.
Accept only what is offered by sacred love.

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Our Bog Is Dood

© Stevie Smith

Our Bog is dood, our Bog is dood,
They lisped in accents mild,
But when I asked them to explain
They grew a little wild.
How do you know your Bog is dood
My darling little child?

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Ozymandias of Egypt

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land


Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

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Our Whole Life

© Adrienne Rich

Trying to tell the doctor where it hurts
like the Algerian
who waled form his village, burning

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Orion

© Adrienne Rich

Far back when I went zig-zagging
through tamarack pastures
you were my genius, you
my cast-iron Viking, my helmed
lion-heart king in prison.
Years later now you're young

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O My Native Land(English translation of Urdu poem"Aie Watan")

© Tanwir Phool

O my native land !
O my native land !
Far better than a garden
Is your dust and sand

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On the Welch Language

© Katherine Philips

If honor to an ancient name be due,


Or riches challenge it for one that's new,

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Ode of Ricardo Reis

© Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa

To be great, be whole: nothing


Yours exaggerate nor delete.

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Overheard on a Saltmarsh

© Harold Monro

They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man's fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.

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Opening the Moorish Grate

© José Martí

Opening the moorish grate
To lean upon the wet sill,
Pale as the moon, and so still,
A lover ponders his fate.

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Once I was sailing for fun (Simple Verses XII)

© José Martí

Once I was sailing for fun
On a lake of great allure,
Like gold the sun shone so pure,
And my soul more than the sun.

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On Frozen Fields

© Galway Kinnell

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You in whose ultimate madness we live,
You flinging yourself out into the emptiness,
You - like us - great an instant,

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One Wish Alone Have I

© Mihai Eminescu

One wish alone have I:


In some calm land

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Of All The Ships

© Mihai Eminescu

Of all the ships the ocean rolls
How many find untimely graves
Piled high by you upon the shoals,
O waves and winds, o winds and waves?

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O Mother...

© Mihai Eminescu

O mother, darling mother, lost in time's formless haze
Amidst the leaves' sweet rustle you call my name always;
Amidst their fluttering murmur above your sacred grave
I hear you softly whisper whene'er the branches wave;
While o'er your tomb the willows their autumn raiment heap...
For ever wave the branches, and you for ever sleep.