Sports poems

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Saul And David

© Richard Monckton Milnes

``An evil spirit lieth on our King!''
So went the wailful tale up Israel,
From Gilgal unto Gibeah; town and camp
Caught the sad fame that spread like pestilence,

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Marmion: a Christmas Poem

© Sir Walter Scott



Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;

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Charles The First

© Percy Bysshe Shelley


A Pursuivant.
Place, for the Marshal of the Masque!

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Richard and Kate: A suffolk Ballad

© Robert Bloomfield

'Come, Goody, stop your humdrum wheel,
Sweep up your orts, and get your Hat;
Old joys reviv'd once more I feel,
'Tis Fair-day;--ay, _and more than that._

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The Young Author

© Samuel Johnson

When first the peasant, long inclined to roam,

Forsakes his rural sports and peaceful home,

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Time’s Changes In A Household

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

They were as fair and bright a band as ever filled with pride
Parental hearts whose task it was children beloved to guide;
And every care that love upon its idols bright may shower
Was lavished with impartial hand upon each fair young flower.

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To My Native Land

© Jens Baggesen

Thou spot of earth, where from the breast of woe
My eye first rose, and in the purple glow
Of morning, and the dewy smile of love,
Marked the first gloamings of the Power above:

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Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter IV

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

How shall I take up this vain parable
And ravel out its issue? Heaven and Hell,
The principles of good and evil thought,
Embodied in our lives, have blindly fought

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A poem, Sacred to the Glorious memory of King George

© Richard Savage


He said.-Again, with Majesty refin'd,
Up-wing'd to Realms of Bliss, th'Ætherial Mind.

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Sunrise

© Emma Lazarus

Weep for the martyr! Strew his bier

With the last roses of the year;

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Book Fourth [Summer Vacation]

© William Wordsworth

BRIGHT was the summer's noon when quickening steps

Followed each other till a dreary moor

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Elegy for an Old Boxer by James McKean: American Life in Poetry #80 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2

© Ted Kooser

One of poetry's traditional public services is the presentation of elegies in honor of the dead. Here James McKean remembers a colorful friend and neighbor.


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The Task: Book III. -- The Garden

© William Cowper

As one who, long in thickets and in brakes

Entangled, winds now this way and now that

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Hymn To Diana

© William Henry Ogilvie

Diana! Hear us when we pray.

Send us foxes fleet and strong,

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Christmas

© John Clare

Christmas is come and every hearth


Makes room to give him welcome now

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A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at New-Market in January, 1616

© William Henry Drummond

The earth ore-covered with a sheet of snow,
Refuses food to fowl, to bird, and beast;
The chilling cold lets every thing to grow,
And surfeits cattle with a starving feast.
Curs'd be that love and mought continue short,
Which kills all creatures, and doth spoil our sport.

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Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 2. The Sicilian's Tale; The Bell of Atri

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He sold his horses, sold his hawks and hounds,
Rented his vineyards and his garden-grounds,
Kept but one steed, his favorite steed of all,
To starve and shiver in a naked stall,
And day by day sat brooding in his chair,
Devising plans how best to hoard and spare.

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On Ettrick Forest's Mountains Dun {Life In The Forest}

© Sir Walter Scott

On Ettrick Forest's mountains dun

'Tis blithe to hear the sportsman's gun,

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To The Royal Society

© Abraham Cowley

I.

Philosophy the great and only heir

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Gotham - Book II

© Charles Churchill

How much mistaken are the men who think

That all who will, without restraint may drink,