Power Poems (4499 Poems)
Guy Of The Temple (John Hay Poems)
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death’s herald-shadows sick and gray.Silent and dark the sombre valley liesForgotten; happy in the late fond beamsGlimmer the constant waves of Galilee.Afar, … Continue reading
The Art Of Preserving Health. Book I (John Armstrong Poems)
AIR. Daughter of Paeon, queen of every joy,Hygeia; whose indulgent smile sustainsThe various race luxuriant nature pours,And on th’ immortal essences bestowsImmortal youth; auspicious, O descend!Thou chearful guardian of the rolling year,Whether thou wanton’st on the western gale,Or shak’st the … Continue reading
Mazelli – Canto I (George W Sands Poems)
I. “Stay, traveller, stay thy weary steed,The sultry hour of noon is near,Of rest thy way-worn limbs have need,Stay, then, and, taste its sweetness here.The mountain path which thou hast spedIs steep, and difficult to tread,And many a farther step … Continue reading
Arabian Night’s Entertainments (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic–O, so magical it filledHis life with visionary pompsProcessional! And PowersPassed with him where he passed. And ThronesAnd Dominations, glaived and plumed and mailed,Thronged in the … Continue reading
Queen Mab: Part VII. (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
SPIRIT ’I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with … Continue reading
The Builders (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
ODE FOR THE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF PRINCETON COLLEGEOctober 21, 1896IInto the dust of the making of manSpirit was breathed when his life began,Lifting him up from his low estate,With masterful passion, the wish to create.Out of the dust … Continue reading
The Chapel of the Hermits (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
“I do believe, and yet, in grief,I pray for help to unbelief;For needful strength aside to layThe daily cumberings of my way. “I ‘m sick at heart of craft and cant,Sick of the crazed enthusiast’s rant,Profession’s smooth hypocrisies,And creeds of … Continue reading
Prince Athanase (Percy Bysshe Shelley Poems)
A FRAGMENT PART I There was a youth, who, as with toil and travel,Had grown quite weak and gray before his time;Nor any could the restless griefs unravel Which burned within him, withering up his primeAnd goading him, like fiends, … Continue reading
Christ Is All In All (Rees Prichard Poems)
‘TIS Christ, ’tis Christ himself, that’s all in all;Without Him, man must to perdition fall:No thing, no person, besides Christ alone,Can for the sins of human kind atone. The serpent with an apple man deceiv’d —The serpent man of Paradise … Continue reading
Of The Nature Of Things: Book II – Part 04 – Absence Of Secondary Qualities (Lucretius Poems)
Now come, this wisdom by my sweet toil soughtLook thou perceive, lest haply thou shouldst guessThat the white objects shining to thine eyesAre gendered of white atoms, or the blackOf a black seed; or yet believe that aughtThat’s steeped in … Continue reading