Sports poems

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Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty's Happy Recovery

© William Cowper

I ransack'd for a theme of song,

Much ancient chronicle, and long;

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The Cross Roads; Or, The Haymaker's Story

© John Clare

  The maids, impatient now old Goody ceased,
As restless children from the school released,
Right gladly proving, what she'd just foretold,
That young ones' stories were preferred to old,
Turn to the whisperings of their former joy,
That oft deceive, but very rarely cloy.

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Hope

© William Cowper

Ask what is human life -- the sage replies,

With disappointment lowering in his eyes,

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Elegy VI. To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country (Translated From Milton)

© William Cowper

With no rich viands overcharg'd, I send

Health, which perchance you want, my pamper'd friend;

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Changed

© Charles Stuart Calverley

I know not why my soul is rack'd:

  Why I ne'er smile as was my wont:

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Power Of Love (From "Antigone")

© Sophocles


O LOVE, thou art victor in fight: thou mak'st all things afraid;

Thou couchest thee softly at night on the cheeks of a maid;

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Book Second [School-Time Continued]

© William Wordsworth

THUS far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much

Unvisited, endeavoured to retrace

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A Day At Tivoli - Prologue

© John Kenyon

  Yet, if All die, there are who die not All;
  (So Flaccus hoped), and half escape the pall.
  The Sacred Few! whom love of glory binds,
  "That last infirmity of noble minds,
  "To scorn delights, and live laborious days,"

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The Faithful Friend

© Caroline Norton

O, FRIEND! whose heart the grave doth shroud from human joy or woe,
Know'st thou who wanders by thy tomb, with footsteps sad and slow?
Know'st thou whose brow is dark with grief? whose eyes are dim with tears?
Whose restless soul is sinking with its agony of fears?
Whose hope hath fail'd, whose star hath sunk, whose firmest trust deceived,
Since, leaning on thy faithful breast, he loved and believed?

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Metamorphoses: Book The Tenth

© Ovid

 The End of the Tenth Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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The Pilot

© William Henry Ogilvie

Time was when the sportsman, with chivalrous care,

Would find a safe line for his follower fair,

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Brahm

© Joseph Furphy

Our swarming brethren of the North
Whatever you may judge them worth
Sling Muck and Soogoo Ram,
Are fantoids like yourself and me,
Though differing somewhat in degree
Nothing exists but BRAHM.

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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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Growing Down

© Edgar Albert Guest

Time was I thought of growing up,

  But that was ere the babies came;

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Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time]

© William Wordsworth

OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze,

A visitant that while it fans my cheek

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A Pastoral Between Thirsis And Corydon, Upon The Death Of Damon, By Whom Is Meant Mr. W. Riddell

© James Thomson

Thir.
Say, tell me true, what is the doleful cause
That Corydon is not the man he was?
Your cheerful presence used to lighten cares,

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Jhansi Ki Rani (With English Translation II )

© Subhadra Kumari Chauhan

Sinhasan hil uthey raajvanshon ney bhrukuti tani thi,

budhey Bharat mein aayee phir se nayi jawani thi,

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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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The Boy’s Appeal

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

O say, dear sister, are you coming

  Forth to the fields with me?

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The True Sportsman

© William Henry Ogilvie

The real ones, the right ones, the straight ones and the true,

The pukka, peerless sportsmen-their numbers are but few;