Sympathy poems

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At An Inn

© Thomas Hardy

WHEN we as strangers sought
Their catering care,
Veiled smiles bespoke their thought
Of what we were.

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To An Orphan Child

© Thomas Hardy

A WhimseyAH, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's;
Hers couldst thou wholly be,
My light in thee would outglow all in others;
She would relive to me.

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The Sick God

© Thomas Hardy

In days when men had joy of war,
A God of Battles sped each mortal jar;
The peoples pledged him heart and hand,
From Israel's land to isles afar.

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Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty

© Alan Seeger

There is a power whose inspiration fills
Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought,
Like airy dew ere any drop distils,
Like perfume in the laden flower, like aught

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Hymn To The Penates

© Robert Southey

Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain
Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall
I hang the silent harp: there may its strings,
When the rude tempest shakes the aged pile,

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Hymn 125

© Isaac Watts

With joy we meditate the grace
Of our High Priest above;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.

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For The Foxes

© Charles Bukowski

don't feel sorry for me.
I am a competent,
satisfied human being.

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To A Child

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee,
With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles,
Thou gazest at the painted tiles,
Whose figures grace,

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The butterfly obtains

© Emily Dickinson

The butterfly obtains
But little sympathy
Though favorably mentioned
In Entomology --

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The Black Berry -- wears a Thorn in his side --

© Emily Dickinson

The Black Berry -- wears a Thorn in his side --
But no Man heard Him cry --
He offers His Berry, just the same
To Partridge -- and to Boy --

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The Birds reported from the South --

© Emily Dickinson

The Birds reported from the South --
A News express to Me --
A spicy Charge, My little Posts --
But I am deaf -- Today --

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Rahel to Varnhagen

© Edwin Arlington Robinson

NOTE.—Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage—so far as he was concerned at any rate—appears to have been satisfactory.
Now you have read them all; or if not all,
As many as in all conscience I should fancy
To be enough. There are no more of them—

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Captain Craig

© Edwin Arlington Robinson

II doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town
Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig,
Or called him by his name, or looked at him
So curiously, or so concernedly,