Patience poems

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The Planting

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

PLANT it safe and sure, my child,
Then cease watching and cease weeping;
You have done your utmost part:
Leave it with a quiet heart:
It will grow while you are sleeping.

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter V - Count Guido Franceschini

© Robert Browning

“That is a way, thou whisperest in my ear!
“I doubt, I will decide, then act,” said I—
Then beckoned my companions: “Time is come!”

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The Wind At Night

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

O SUDDEN blast, that through this silence black
Sweeps past my windows,
Coming and going with invisible track
As death or sin does,--

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Coming Home

© Augusta Davies Webster

 Anyhow
I've poetry and music too to-day
in the very clatter: it goes "Home, home, home."

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The Third Booke Of Qvodlibets

© Robert Hayman


Kings doe correct those that Rebellious are,
And their good Subjects worthily preferre:
Iust Epigrams reproue those that offend,
And those that vertuous are, she doth commend.

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In Egypt

© Virna Sheard

All day the wife of Pharaoh had paced the palace hall
  Or the long white pillared court that was open to the sky;
A passion of wild restlessness ensnared her in its thrall
  While she fought a fear within her--a thing that would not die.

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SONNET. To Patience

© Henry King

Down stormy passions, down; no more
Let your rude waves invade the shore
Where blushing reason sits and hides
Her from the fury of your tides.

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The First Booke Of Qvodlibets

© Robert Hayman


Though my best lines no dainty things affords,
My worst haue in them some thing else then words.

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Foma Bobrov And His Spouse

© Daniil Ivanovich Kharms

GRANNY Bobrov (Playing patience) Now that's the card. Oh, it's all coming out topsy-turvy! A king. And where am I supposed to put that? Just when you want one, there's never a five around. Oh, I could do with a five! Now it'll be the five. Oh, sod it, another king!  

She flings the cards on to the table with such force that a porcelain vase falls off the table and smashes.

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North Wind

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

LOUD wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,
Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea,
Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy fountains,
Draughts of life to me.

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The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto XI.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore


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  This learn'd I, watching where she danced,
  Native to melody and light,
  And now and then toward me glanced,
  Pleased, as I hoped, to please my sight.

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Mason And Slidell: A Yankee Idyll

© James Russell Lowell

Wut! they ha'n't hanged 'em?
Then their wits is gone!
Thet's the sure way to make a goose a swan!

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The World In The Heart

© Jane Taylor

  The charms of mental converse some may fear,
Who scruple not to lend a ready ear
To kitchen tales, of scandal, strife, and love,
Which make the maid and mistress hand and glove ;
And ever deem the sin and danger less,
Merely for being in a vulgar dress.

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Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto III.

© Matthew Prior

Ideas, farms, and intellects,
Have furnish'd out three different sects.
Substance or accident divides
All Europe into adverse sides.

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Don Juan: Canto The Eighth

© George Gordon Byron

Oh blood and thunder! and oh blood and wounds!

These are but vulgar oaths, as you may deem,

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Spirit Of The Everlasting Boy

© Henry Van Dyke

ODE FOR THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL

June 11, 1910

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Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick

© Samuel Johnson

When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes

  First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespear rose;

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Evangeline: Part The Second. I.

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pré,

When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed,

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Giving And Taking

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Who gives and hides the giving hand,
Nor counts on favor, fame, or praise,
Shall find his smallest gift outweighs
The burden of the sea and land.

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Pour Qui Sait Attendre

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

All things, they say, come home to those that wait,
Riches, power, fame, lost fortune, hope deferred,
Health to our friends, ill hap to those we hate,
Even love, that glorious paradisal bird,