Wish poems

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Mary Hamilton

© Anonymous

Word 's gane to the kitchen, And word 's gane to the ha,That Marie Hamilton gangs wi bairn To the hichest Stewart of a'.

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Beowulf

© Anonymous

Hwæt

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Ay Me, Ay Me, I Sigh the Scythe A-field

© Anonymous

Ay me, ay me, I sigh to see the scythe a-field; Down goeth the grass, soon wrought to wither'd hay:Ay me, alas! ay me, alas, that beauty needs must yield, And princes pass, as grass doth fade away.

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The Flawed Bell

© Aggeler William F.

It is bitter and sweet on winter nightsTo listen by the fire that smokes and palpitates,To distant souvenirs that rise up slowlyAt the sound of the chimes that sing in the fog.

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Vaudracour And Julia

© William Wordsworth

O HAPPY time of youthful lovers (thus
My story may begin) O balmy time,
In which a love-knot on a lady's brow
Is fairer than the fairest star in heaven!

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Henry And Emma. A Poem.

© Matthew Prior

Where beauteous Isis and her husband Thame
With mingled waves for ever flow the same,
In times of yore an ancient baron lived,
Great gifts bestowed, and great respect received.

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Squire Hawkins's Story

© James Whitcomb Riley

He sized it all; and Patience laid
Her hand in John's, and looked afraid,
And waited.  And a stiller set
O' folks, I KNOW, you never met
In any court room, where with dread
They wait to hear a verdick read.

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The Muses Threnodie: Eighth Muse

© Henry Adamson

What blooming banks, sweet Earn, or fairest Tay,

Or Almond doth embrace! These many a day

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Plague Of Dead Sharks

© Alan Dugan

Who knows whether the sea heals or corrodes?

The wading, wintered pack-beasts of the feet

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Constantia's Song

© Abraham Cowley

Time fly with greater speed away,
Add feathers to thy wings,
Till thy haste in flying brings
That wished-for and expected Day.

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Variations At Home And Abroad

© Kenneth Koch

It takes a lot of a person's life

To be French, or English, or American

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Pharsalia - Book II: The Flight Of Pompeius

© Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

This was made plain the anger of the gods;
The universe gave signs Nature reversed
In monstrous tumult fraught with prodigies
Her laws, and prescient spake the coming guilt.

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Orlando Furioso Canto 12

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Orlando, full of rage, pursues a knight

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Senlin:A Biography: Pt 03 His Cloudy Destiny

© Conrad Aiken

Yet, we would say, this is no shore at all,
But a small bright room with lamplight on the wall;
And the familiar chair
Where Senlin sat, with lamplight on his hair.

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Vision Of Columbus - Book 8

© Joel Barlow

And now the Angel, from the trembling sight,

Veil'd the wide world–when sudden shades of night

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The Foray Of Con O’Donnell. A.D. 1495

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

The evening shadows sweetly fall

Along the hills of Donegal,

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The Apple-Tree

© Ann Taylor

OLD John had an apple-tree, healthy and green,
Which bore the best codlins that ever were seen,
So juicy, so mellow, and red;
And when they were ripe, he disposed of his store,
To children or any who pass'd by his door,
To buy him a morsel of bread.

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St. Valentines day

© Henry King

Now that each feather'd Chorister doth sing
The glad approches of the welcome Spring:
Now Phœbus darts forth his more early beam,
And dips it later in the curled stream,

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The Heroic Enthusiasts - Part The Second =Second Dialogue=

© Giordano Bruno

MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which is
written: Levius aura; which means that Divine love does not weigh down,
nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but
raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

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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.