Politics poems

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Song

© William Cowper

No more shall hapless Celia's ears

Be flattered with the cries

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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire

© George Gordon Byron

These are the themes that claim our plaudits now;
These are the bards to whom the muse must bow;
While Milton, Dryden, Pope, alike forgot,
Resign their hallow'd bays to Walter Scott.

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Caravaggio: Swirl & Vortex

© Larry Levis

In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,
Left behind his own face in the decapitated, swollen, leaden-eyed head of Goliath,
And left the eyelids slightly open, & left on the face of David a look of pity

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Lord Lundy II - Second Canto

© Hilaire Belloc

It happened to Lord Lundy then,

As happens to so many men:

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Unimportant Differences

© Edgar Albert Guest

If he is honest, kindly, true,

  And glad to work from day to day;

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Souvenir De La Nuit Du 4 (Memory Of The Night Of The 4th)

© Victor Marie Hugo

L'enfant avait reçu deux balles dans la tête.

Le logis était propre, humble, paisible, honnête ;

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Everyday Characters I - The Vicar

© Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Some years ago, ere time and taste

  Had turned our parish topsy-turvy,

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The Progress Of A Divine: Satire

© Richard Savage

All priests are not the same, be understood!
Priests are, like other folks, some bad, some good.
What's vice or virtue, sure admits no doubt;
Then, clergy, with church mission, or without;
When good, or bad, annex we to your name,
The greater honour, or the greater shame.

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The Conversation. A Tale

© Matthew Prior

It always has been a thought discreet
To know the company you meet;
And sure there may be secret danger
In talking much before a stranger.
Agreed: what then? Then drink your ale;
I'll pledge you, and repeat my tale.

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The Old Chartist

© George Meredith

I

Whate'er I be, old England is my dam!

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Song Of A Brigadier

© Anonymous

I wear a splendid uniform;

I ride a splendid nag;

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Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter II

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

'Twas thus she comforted her soul. And then,
She had found a friend, a phoenix among men,
Which made it easier to compound with life,
Easier to be a woman and a wife.

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Men and Women

© James Kenneth Stephen

. IN THE BACKS.
   As I was strolling lonely in the Backs, 
   I met a woman whom I did not like.
   I did not like the way the woman walked:

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Night

© Charles Churchill

AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD.

  Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.

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To Lamartine

© James Russell Lowell

I did not praise thee when the crowd,
  'Witched with the moment's inspiration,
Vexed thy still ether with hosannas loud,
  And stamped their dusty adoration;
  I but looked upward with the rest,
And, when they shouted Greatest, whispered Best.

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London - in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal

© Samuel Johnson

'--Quis ineptae

Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se?' ~ Juv.

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Sunrise

© Sidney Lanier

I have waked, I have come, my beloved!  I might not abide:
I have come ere the dawn, O beloved, my live-oaks, to hide
  In your gospelling glooms, -- to be
As a lover in heaven, the marsh my marsh and the sea my sea.

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Folks

© Edgar Albert Guest

We was speakin' of folks, jes' common folks,
An' we come to this conclusion,
That wherever they be, on land or sea,
They warm to a home allusion;

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Queer Ebenezer

© Edgar Albert Guest

The strangest man I ever knew

Is Ebenezer Pettigrew;

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The Progress Of Refinement. Part II.

© Henry James Pye

CONTENTS OF PART II. Introduction.—Sketch of the Northern barbarians.—Feudal system.—Origin of Chivalry.—Superstition.—Crusades.— Hence the enfranchisement of Vassals, and Commerce encouraged. —The Northern and Western Europeans, struck with the splendor of Constantinople, and the superior elegance of the Saracens.—Origin of Romance.— The remains of Science confined to the monasteries, and in an unknown language.—Hence the distinction of learning.—Discovery of the Roman Jurisprudence, and it's effects.—Classic writers begin to be admired—Arts revive in Italy.—Greek learning introduced there, on the taking of Constantinople by the Turks.—That event lamented.—Learning encouraged by Leo X.—Invention of Printing.—The Reformation.—It's effects, even on those countries that retained their old Religion.— It's establishment in Britain.—Age of Elizabeth.— Arts and Literature flourish.—Spenser.—Shakespear. —Milton.—Dryden.—The Progress of the Arts checked by the Civil War.—Patronized in France. Age of Lewis XIV.—Taste hurt in England during the profligate reign of Charles II.—Short and turbulent reign of his Successor.—King William no encourager of the Arts.—Age of Queen Anne.—Manners.—Science and Literature flourish.—Neglected by the first Princes of the House of Brunswick.—Patronage of Arts by his present Majesty.—Poetry not encouraged.—Address to the King.—General view of the present state of Refinement. —Among the European Nations.—France.— Britain.—Italy.—Spain.—Holland and Germany. —Increasing Influence of French manners.— Russia.—Greece.—Asia.—China.—Africa. —America.—Newly discovered islands.—European Colonies.