Sympathy poems

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The Caterpillar

© Anna Lætitia Barbauld

No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now;Depart in peace, thy little life is safe,For I have scanned thy form with curious eye,Noted the silver line that streaks thy back,The azure and the orange that divideThy velvet sides; thee, houseless wanderer,My garment has enfolded, and my armFelt the light pressure of thy hairy feet;Thou hast curled round my finger; from its tip,Precipitous descent! with stretched out neck,Bending thy head in airy vacancy,This way and that, inquiring, thou hast seemedTo ask protection; now, I cannot kill thee

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The Sympathy of Angels

© Arthur James

Being of tragic bentwe incline to the future

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The Claim

© Edith Nesbit

OH! I admit I'm dull and poor,
  And plain and gloomy, as you tell me;
And dozens flock around your door
  Who in all points but one excel me.

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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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To Rafael

© Richard Monckton Milnes

Thine was the scheme, and worthy to be thine,
O Painter--Poet! with care and regu'lar toil,
To raise those marvels from the' entombing soil
With which Greek Art made Rome a place divine.

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Rhymed Plea For Tolerance - Dialogue II.

© John Kenyon


A.—
  By no faint shame withheld from general gaze,
  'Tis thus, my friend, we bask us in the blaze;
  Where deeds, more surface-smooth than inly bright,
  Snatch up a transient lustre from the light.

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Forby Sutherland

© George Gordon McCrae


A LANE of elms in June;—the air  

 Of eve is cool and calm and sweet.  

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England To Ireland

© William Watson

Spouse whom my sword in the olden time won me,

  Winning me hatred more sharp than a sword--

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter IX - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius

© Robert Browning

  Thus
Would I defend the step,—were the thing true
Which is a fable,—see my former speech,—
That Guido slept (who never slept a wink)
Through treachery, an opiate from his wife,
Who not so much as knew what opiates mean.

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Out With The World

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

I'm out with all the world to-day,

So all the world to me is grey,

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The Heroic Enthusiasts - Part The First =Second Dialogue.=

© Giordano Bruno


Now begins the enthusiast to display the affections and uncover the
wounds which are for a sign in his body, and in substance or essence in
his soul, and he says thus:

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Columbus

© James Russell Lowell

  One poor day!--
Remember whose and not how short it is!
It is God's day, it is Columbus's.
A lavish day! One day, with life and heart,
Is more than time enough to find a world.

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To A Lady Who Spoke Slightingly Of Poets

© Washington Allston

Oh, censure not the Poet's art,
Nor think it chills the feeling heart
 To love the gentle Muses.
Can that which in a stone or flower,
As if by transmigrating power,
 His gen'rous soul infuses;

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Aurora Leigh: Book Fourth

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


  She, at that,
Looked blindly in his face, as when one looks
Through driving autumn-rains to find the sky.
He went on speaking.

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Ode To a Young Lady

© John Logan

Maria, bright with beauty's glow,
In conscious gayety you go
The pride of all the park:
Attracted groups in silence gaze
And soft behind you hear the praise,
And whisper of the spark.

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The Ballad of the Elder Son

© Henry Lawson

A son of elder sons I am,

  Whose boyhood days were cramped and scant,

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The Meeting

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The elder folks shook hands at last,

Down seat by seat the signal passed.

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The Abencerrage : Canto III.

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Onward their slow and stately course they bend
To where the Alhambra's ancient towers ascend,
Reared and adorned by Moorish kings of yore,
Whose lost descendants there shall dwell no more.

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Time's Defeat

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Time has made conquest of so many things
That once were mine. Swift-footed, eager youth
That ran to meet the years; bold brigand health,
That broke all laws of reason unafraid,
And laughed at talk of punishment. Close ties

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To Ireland

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I.
Bear witness, Erin! when thine injured isle
Sees summer on its verdant pastures smile,
Its cornfields waving in the winds that sweep