Peace poems

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"Will Sail Tomorrow."

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

THE good ship lies in the crowded dock,
Fair as a statue, firm as a rock:
Her tall masts piercing the still blue air,
Her funnel glittering white and bare,

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Lord Kitchener

© Robert Seymour Bridges

Among Herculean deeds the miracle
That mass'd the labour of ten years in one
Shall be thy monument. Thy work was done
Ere we could thank thee; and the high sea swell
Surgeth unheeding where thy proud ship fell
By the lone Orkneys, at the set of sun.

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To the Temple I Repair

© James Montgomery

To Thy temple I repair;
Lord, I love to worship there
When within the veil I meet
Christ before the mercy seat.

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Mutation.

© Robert Crawford

The peaceful years, and then the stormy time
When the perturbed Earth moans, and Death himself
Seems ready to seize all his prey, "to smite
Once and to smite no more." Not yet the end,

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The Pastime of Pleasure: Of dysposycyon the II. parte of rethoryke - (til line 1456)

© Stephen Hawes

The seconde parte of crafty rethoryke
Maye well be called dysposycyon
822 That doth so hyghe mater aromatytyke
823 Adowne dystyll / by consolacyon

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The Furnace Door

© Edgar Albert Guest

My father is a peaceful man;

He tries in every way he can

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Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference

© William Cowper

And dwells there in a female heart,
By bounteous heaven design'd
The choicest raptures to impact,
To feel the most refined;

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Glorious France

© Edgar Lee Masters

You have become a forge of snow-white fire,

A crucible of molten steel, O France!

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Preconception

© Benjamin Jonson

But tonight a poem came
in which a small child,
my daughter, appeared at the door
of a half-lit room
where late one night I wrote
at a heavy desk.

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God Defend New Zealand

© Thomas Bracken

O Lord, God,

of nations and of us too

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An Epistle To William Hogarth

© Charles Churchill

Amongst the sons of men how few are known

Who dare be just to merit not their own!

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Barnham Water

© Robert Bloomfield

Fresh from the Hall of Bounty sprung,

 With glowing heart and ardent eye,

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Ho! Everyone That Thirsts, Draw Nigh

© Charles Wesley

Ho! every one that thirsts, draw nigh!
('Tis God invites the fallen race)
Mercy and free salvation buy;
Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace.

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Address To Kilchurn Castle, Upon Loch Awe

© William Wordsworth

CHILD of loud-throated War! the mountain Stream

Roars in thy hearing; but thy hour of rest

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At the Long Sault: May, 1660

© Archibald Lampman

  All night by the foot of the mountain
    The little town lieth at rest,
  The sentries are peacefully pacing;
    And neither from East nor from West

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Pharsalia - Book V: The Oracle. The Mutiny. The Storm

© Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

  While soldier thus and chief,
In doubtful sort, against their hidden fate
Devised their counsel, Appius alone
Feared for the chances of the war, and sought
Through Phoebus' ancient oracle to break
The silence of the gods and know the end.

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Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Theologian's Tale; Torquemada

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O pitiless skies! why did your clouds retain
For peasants' fields their floods of hoarded rain?
O pitiless earth! why open no abyss
To bury in its chasm a crime like this?

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"For Beauty Being the Best of All We Know"

© Robert Seymour Bridges

For beauty being the best of all we know

Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims

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The Muses Threnodie: Eighth Muse

© Henry Adamson

What blooming banks, sweet Earn, or fairest Tay,

Or Almond doth embrace! These many a day

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Refining Fuller, Make Me Clean

© Augustus Montague Toplady

Refining Fuller, make me clean,
On me thy costly pearl bestow:
Thou art thyself the pearl I prize,
The only joy I seek below.