Trust poems

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Lamia. Part I

© John Keats

Upon a time, before the faery broods

Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,

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Ione

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

I.

AH, yes, 't is sweet still to remember,

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After Many Days

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

I'VE always been a faithful man

An' tried to live for duty,

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For E. McC

© Ezra Pound

Gone as a gust of breath
Faith! no man tarrieth,
‘Se il cor ti manca,’ but it failed thee not!
'Non ti fidar,’ it is the sword that speaks
‘In me.’

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Virginia--The West

© Walt Whitman

The noble sire fallen on evil days,
I saw with hand uplifted, menacing, brandishing,
(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)
The insane knife toward the Mother of All.

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A Triptych

© Arthur Symons


II. ISOTTA TO THE ROSE: RIMINI
The little country girl who plucks a rose
Goes barefoot through the sunlight to the sea,
And singing of Isotta as she goes.

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Thou Gaudy Idle World Adieu

© Thomas Parnell

Thou Gaudy Idle world adieu,

& all thy tinsell Joys;

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Metamorphoses: Book The Third

© Ovid

  The End of the Third 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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Grace Of The Way

© Francis Thompson

'My brother!' spake she to the sun;
  The kindred kisses of the stars
Were hers; her feet were set upon
  The moon.  If slumber solved the bars

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The Standard-Bearer

© Henry Van Dyke

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“How can I tell,” Sir Edmund said,

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The White Witch

© James Weldon Johnson

O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!
The great white witch rides out to-night,
Trust not your prowess nor your strength;
Your only safety lies in flight;
For in her glance there is a snare,
And in her smile there is a blight.

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A Portrait

© Alfred Austin

When friends grown faithless, or the fickle throng,

Withdrawing from my life the love they lent,

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A Legend Of Brittany - Part Second

© James Russell Lowell

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As one who, from the sunshine and the green,

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Labyrinth As The Erasure Of Cries Heard Once Within It Or: (Mr. Bones I Succeeded… ‘Later)

© Larry Levis

—Is dog eat dog out dere'—Big Business, Mr. Bones.
You know what I'm doing now? I'm watching the Complete
Poems of Hart Crane as they are slowly fed
Into a pulping machine in East Bayonne.

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The Inevitable

© Sarah Knowles Bolton

I LIKE the man who faces what he must

With step triumphant and a heart of cheer;

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Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book III

© John Gay

Of Walking the Streets by Night.

O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,

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Mother and Daughter- Sonnet Sequence

© Augusta Davies Webster

  Oh goddess head! Oh innocent brave eyes!
Oh curved and parted lips where smiles are rare
And sweetness ever! Oh smooth shadowy hair
Gathered around the silence of her brow!
  Child, I'd needs love thy beauty stranger-wise:
And oh the beauty of it, being thou!

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The Cyclops

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

SILENUS.
ULYSSES.
CHORUS OF SATYRS.
THE CYCLOPS.

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The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare , Maggie

© Robert Burns

A Guide New-year I wish thee, Maggie!
Hae, there's a ripp to thy auld baggie:
Tho' thou's howe-backit now, an' knaggie,
I've seen the day
There could hae gaen like ony staggie,
Out-owre the lay.

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Obedience

© George MacDonald

Trust him in the common light;

Trust him in the awesome night;