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A dozen poems

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An American, by Rudyard Kipling



The American Spirit speaks:

"If the Led Striker call it a strike,
Or the papers call it a war,
They know not much what I am like,
Nor what he is, my Avatar."

Complete Poem


Haiku, by Michael Rehling



crucified
on a cold gray sky
a single bird

Complete Poem


Soft, Low and Sweet, by Johannes Carl Andersen



Soft, low and sweet, the blackbird wakes the day,
And clearer pipes, as rosier grows the gray
Of the wide sky, far, far into whose deep
The rath lark soars, and scatters down the steep
His runnel song, that skyey roundelay.

Complete Poem


Jolly Good Ale and Old, by William Stevenson



I CANNOT eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good;
But sure I think that I can drink
With him that wears a hood.
Though I go bare, take ye no care,

Complete Poem


Fifty Years Spent, by Maxwell Struthers Burt



Fifty years spent before I found me,
Wind on my mouth and the taste of the rain,
Where the great hills circled and swept around me
And the torrents leapt to the mist-drenched plain;
Ah, it was long this coming of me

Complete Poem


A Girl's Grave, by Patrick Edward Quinn



"Aged 17, OF A BROKEN HEART, January 1st, 1841."

What story is here of broken love,
What idyllic sad romance,
What arrow fretted the silken dove
That met with such grim mischance?

Complete Poem


To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas, by Richard Lovelace



IF to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone
You or I were alone;
Then, my Lucasta, might I crave

Complete Poem


Love and Age, by Thomas Love Peacock



I PLAY'D with you 'mid cowslips blowing,
When I was six and you were four;
When garlands weaving, flower-balls throwing,
Were pleasures soon to please no more.
Through groves and meads, o'er grass and heather,

Complete Poem


Rivals, by William Walsh



OF all the torments, all the cares,
With which our lives are curst;
Of all the plagues a lover bears,
Sure rivals are the worst!
By partners in each other kind

Complete Poem


My Lost Youth, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



OFTEN I think of the beautiful town
That is seated by the sea;
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of that dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me.

Complete Poem


Harps hung up in Babylon, by Arthur Colton



The harps hung up in Babylon,
Their loosened strings rang on, sang on,
And cast their murmurs forth upon
The roll and roar of Babylon:
"Forget me, Lord, if I forget

Complete Poem


A thousand starring eyes, by Rebecka Smith



For what is one with no where to go, but alone in silent desolation.
Within the skies a thousand eyes, a thousand hearts, starring down upon you.
Hope has crippled and faded, but answer me this, is that so bad?
For what is a life without a hope?
A life without hope is a life without dissapointment, without pain and without fear.

Complete Poem

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