Peace (Patrick Kavanagh Poem)
And sometimes I am sorry when the grass Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows And the cocksfoot leans ...
And sometimes I am sorry when the grass Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows And the cocksfoot leans ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into ...
WHAT flower is this that greets the morn, Its hues from Heaven so freshly born? With burning star and flaming ...
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on ...
(i) how new the world is trying to find nerve in an old rind (ii) the bread is crumbled for ...
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, ...
Sitting down with evil pure oppression willing to crush resistance to silence other voices Sitting down with evil Like Goebbels ...
At least a million far more than that everyone a hero leaving their seat Standing for justice for the rights ...
So far away the land of the Nile yet we can offer hope help in our prayers for this nation ...
Emporers and kings! in vain you strive Your torments to conceal-- The age is come that shakes your thrones, Tramples ...
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
I do not love thee for that fair Rich fan of thy most curious hair; Though the wires thereof be ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; ...
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom and desolate despair; A ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
STREAMS that glide in orient plains, Never bound by Winter's chains; Glowing here on golden sands, There immix'd with foulest ...
NO Spartan tube, no Attic shell, No lyre Æolian I awake; 'Tis liberty's bold note I swell, Thy harp, Columbia, ...
HERE'S a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to them that's awa; And wha winna wish gude luck ...
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
Night closed around the conqueror's way, And lightnings show'd the distant hill, Where those who lost that dreadful day Stood ...
Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them, When, arm'd for Right, they stood ...
The valley lay smiling before me, Where lately I left her behind; Yet I trembled, and something hung o'er me, ...
'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking, Like Heaven's first dawn o'er the sleep of the dead ...
Weep on, weep on, your hour is past, Your dreams of pride are o'er; The fatal chain is round you ...
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