Power poems

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Cleanness

© Anonymous

Clannesse who so kyndly cowþe comende& rekken vp alle þe resounz þat ho by ri3t askez,Fayre formez my3t he fynde in for[þ]ering his speche& in þe contrare kark & combraunce huge

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Beowulf

© Anonymous

Hwæt

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White Sand

© Anderson Robert Thompson

Blue waves lap on the long low shore, And the dark clouds cast their quivering shade;The dancing launch leaps lightly before The heaving swell that the wind hath made;And over the rushes bending green, Reaching outward across the strandWe look to the beach so white and clean

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Ode

© Joseph Addison

The spacious firmament on high,With all the blue ethereal sky,And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,Their great original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun, from day to day,Does his Creator's power display,And publishes to every landThe work of an Almighty Hand

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The Wants of Man

© Adams John Quincy

Man wants but little here below,Nor wants that little long. -- Goldsmith's Hermit

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The Writing of That Poem

© Aaron Rafi

I knew the poem on Stalin was coming

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An Open Letter to the Unacknowledged One

© Aaron Rafi

There was no prayer in the camps

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Mandelstam -- A Biography

© Aaron Rafi

Do not begin with a date of birth

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To Isaac Walton

© John Kenyon

Walton! dear Angler! when, a school-freed boy,

  Of varnished rod and silken tackle proud,

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O God! Thou art my God alone;

© James Montgomery

O God! Thou art my God alone;
Early to Thee my soul shall cry;
A pilgrim in a land unknown,
A thirsty land whose springs are dry.

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Love Elegy, to Henry

© Amelia Opie

Then thou hast learnt the secret of my soul,
Officious Friendship has its trust betrayed;
No more I need the bursting sigh control,
Nor summon pride my struggling soul to aid.

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The Dance At Darmstadt

© Alfred Austin

In the city of Darmstadt, the Sabbath morn
Shone over the broad Cathedral Square,
And to nobly, richly, and lowly born,
The belfry carilloned call to prayer.

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Homer And Laertes

© Walter Savage Landor

Laertes: Gods help thee! and restore to thee thy sight!
My good old guest, I am more old than thou,
Yet have outlived by many years my son
Odysseus and the chaste Penelope.

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From Home

© George MacDonald

Some men there are who cannot spare
A single tear until they feel
The last cold pressure, and the heel
Is stamped upon the outmost layer.

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August Moon

© Emma Lazarus

Look! the round-cheeked moon floats high,

In the glowing August sky,

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"The Undying One" - Canto III

© Caroline Norton

"I went through the world, but I paused not now
At the gladsome heart and the joyous brow:
I went through the world, and I stay'd to mark
Where the heart was sore, and the spirit dark:
And the grief of others, though sad to see,
Was fraught with a demon's joy to me!

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The Reformer

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Hyde Park
August from a vault of hollow brass
Steep upon the sullen city glares.
Yellower burns the sick and parching grass,
Shivering in the breath of furnace airs.

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book V - Part 03 - The World Is Not Eternal

© Lucretius

Is rendered back; and since, beyond a doubt,
Earth, the all-mother, is beheld to be
Likewise the common sepulchre of things,
Therefore thou seest her minished of her plenty,
And then again augmented with new growth.

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Speak

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Obscured the sun, the world is dark;
Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc,
Send down thy spark.

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The Nuptials Of Attila

© George Meredith

Hatred of that abject slave,
Earth, was in each chieftain's heart.
Earth has got him, whom God gave,
Earth may sing, and earth shall smart!
Attila, my Attila!