Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems (Delphi Poets Series Book 50) (153 page)
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Authors: Homer,William Shakespeare
John Dunlop (1755 — 1820)
HERE’S to the year that’s awa’!
We will drink it in strong and in sma’;
And here’s to ilk bonnie young lassie we lo’ed,
While swift flew the year that’s awa’.
And here’s to ilk, etc.
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Here’s to the sodger who bled,
And the sailor who bravely did fa’;
Their fame is alive though their spirits are fled
On the wings o’ the year that’s awa’.
Their fame is alive, etc.
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Here’s to the friends we can trust
When storms of adversity blaw;
May they live in our song and be nearest our hearts,
Nor depart like the year that’s awa’.
May they live, etc.
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List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Samuel Rogers (1763 — 1855)
MINE be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive’s hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near.
The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch,
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Shall twitter from her clay-built nest;
Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch,
And share my meal, a welcome guest.
Around my ivy’d porch shall spring
Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew;
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And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing
In russet gown and apron blue.
The village-church among the trees,
Where first our marriage-vows were given,
With merry peals shall swell the breeze,
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And point with taper spire to heaven.
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
Samuel Rogers (1763 — 1855)
SLEEP on, and dream of Heaven awhile —
Tho’ shut so close thy laughing eyes,
Thy rosy lips still wear a smile
And move, and breathe delicious sighs!
Ah, now soft blushes tinge her cheeks
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And mantle o’er her neck of snow:
Ah, now she murmurs, now she speaks
What most I wish — and fear to know!
She starts, she trembles, and she weeps!
Her fair hands folded on her breast:
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— And now, how like a saint she sleeps!
A seraph in the realms of rest!
Sleep on secure! Above controul
Thy thoughts belong to Heaven and thee:
And may the secret of thy soul
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Remain within its sanctuary!
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
William Blake (1757–1827)
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o’er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing wooly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice!
Little Lamb who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee,
Little Lamb I’ll tell thee!
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child:
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by his name.
Little Lamb God bless thee.
Little Lamb God bless thee.
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
William Blake (1757–1827)
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
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Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
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And, when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? What the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
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Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
William Blake (1757–1827)
AH, sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime,
Where the traveller’s journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
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And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my sun-flower wishes to go.
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List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
William Blake (1757–1827)
O THOU with dewy locks, who lookest down
Through the clear windows of the morning, turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
The hills tell one another, and the listening
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Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turn’d
Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth
And let thy holy feet visit our clime!
Come o’er the eastern hills, and let our winds
Kiss thy perfumèd garments; let us taste
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Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
Upon our lovesick land that mourns for thee.
O deck her forth with thy fair fingers; pour
Thy soft kisses on her bosom; and put
Thy golden crown upon her languish’d head,
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Whose modest tresses are bound up for thee.
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
William Blake (1757–1827)
PIPING down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
‘Pipe a song about a Lamb!’
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So I piped with merry cheer.
‘Piper, pipe that song again;’
So I piped: he wept to hear.
‘Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
Sing thy songs of happy cheer!’
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So I sung the same again,
While he wept with joy to hear.
‘Piper, sit thee down and write
In a book that all may read.’
So he vanish’d from my sight;
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And I pluck’d a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stain’d the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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List of Poems in Alphabetical Order
List of Poets in Alphabetical Order
