Wish poems

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Sketch From Bowden Hill After Sickness

© William Lisle Bowles

How cheering are thy prospects, airy hill,

  To him who, pale and languid, on thy brow

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On Divine Love By Meditating On The Wounds Of Christ

© Thomas Parnell

Holy Jesus! God of Love!

Look with pity from above,

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Ash-Wednesday

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

Glitt’ring balls and thoughtless revels

  Fill up now each misspent night—

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Don Juan: Canto The Ninth

© George Gordon Byron

Oh, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame

Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;

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O true and tried

© Alfred Tennyson

Tho’ I since then have number’d o’er
 Some thrice three years: they went and came,
 Remade the blood and changed the frame,
And yet is love not less, but more;

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Felicity

© William Watson

Felicity indeed! Across the years
To me her tones come back, rebuking; me,
Spreader of toils to snare the wandering Joy
No guile may capture and no force surprise-
Only by them that never wooed her, won.

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter I - The Ring And The Book

© Robert Browning

DO you see this Ring?

  ’Tis Rome-work, made to match

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The Cloud Messenger - Part 01

© Kalidasa

A certain yaksha who had been negligent in the execution of his own duties,
on account of a curse from his master which was to be endured for a year and
which was onerous as it separated him from his beloved, made his residence
among the hermitages of Ramagiri, whose waters were blessed by the bathing
of the daughter of Janaka1 and whose shade trees grew in profusion.

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The Western Stars

© Henry Lawson

On my blankets I was lyin’
Too tired to lift my head,
An’ the long hot day was dyin’
An’ I wished that I was dead.

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The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXXIII

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

REMINDING HER OF A PROMISE
Oh, Juliet, we have quarrelled with our fate,
And fate has struck us. Wherefore do we cry?
We prayed for liberty, and now too late

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Maha-Bharata, The Epic Of Ancient India - Book IV - Dyuta - (The Fatal Dice)

© Romesh Chunder Dutt

The madness increased, and Yudhishthir staked his brothers, and then
himself, and then the fair Draupadi, and lost! And thus the Emperor
of Indra-prastha and his family were deprived of every possession
on earth, and became the bond-slaves of Duryodhan. The old king
Dhrita-rashtra released them from actual slavery, but the five
brothers retired to forests as homeless exiles.

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Porphyrion

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Yet into vacancy the troubled heart
Brings its own fullness: and Porphyrion found
The void a prison, and in the silence chains.

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Sonnet 5 - I wandered out a while agone,

© George Wither

I wandered out a while agone,
And went I know not whither;
But there do beauties many a one
Resort and meet together,
And Cupid's power will there be shown
If ever you come thither.

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Monody, Written At Matlock

© William Lisle Bowles

Matlock! amid thy hoary-hanging views,

  Thy glens that smile sequestered, and thy nooks

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Songs Set To Music: 23. Set By Mr. De Fesch

© Matthew Prior

Well, I will never more complain,
Or call the Fates unkind;
Alas! how fond it is, how vain!
But self-conceitedness does reign
I nevery mortal mind.

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The Poor Of The Borough. Letter XX: Ellen Orford

© George Crabbe

"No charms she now can boast,"--'tis true,

But other charmers wither too:

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Nurse Green

© Charles Lamb

"Your prayers you have said, and you've wished good night:
 What cause is there yet keeps my darling awake?
This throb in your bosom proclaims some affright
 Disturbs your composure. Can innocence quake?

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Advice: to himself

© Gaius Valerius Catullus

Sad Catullus, stop playing the fool,

and let what you know leads you to ruin, end.

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Maha-Bharata, The Epic Of Ancient India - Book V - Pativrata-Mahatmya - (Woman's Love)

© Romesh Chunder Dutt

The great _rishi_ Vyasa came to visit Yudhishthir, and advised Arjun,
great archer as he was, to acquire celestial arms by penance and
worship. Arjun followed the advice, met the god SIVA in the guise
of a hunter, pleased him by his prowess in combat, and obtained his
blessings and the _pasupata_ weapon. Arjun then went to INDRA'S
heaven and obtained other celestial arms.

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The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Fourth

© William Wordsworth

'Tis night: in silence looking down,
The Moon, from cloudless ether, sees
A Camp, and a beleaguered Town, 
And Castle, like a stately crown