Unity Poems (101 Poems)
Wave On, Thou Flag (James Ephraim McGirt Poems)
Wave on, wave on the air,Oh flag that we have bought!The Stars and Stripes for unity,They tell for what we fought. Oh fade thou not by rain;May whirlwinds passing by,Not dash to threads thy noble form,But leave thee in the … Continue reading
To An Amateur (John Bannister Tabb Poems)
Love thy violin:Let thy soul thereinLearn the unityOf the mystic three,When the string and bow—Parted lovers—meet,And in music knowLife in Love complete. (John Bannister Tabb)
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto II (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Humiliation The Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov’d by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, by Contemplation. In the First She is Sincere, In the Second Fervent, In the Third Extatical. In her Humiliation … Continue reading
The Dance To Death. Act V (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT V. SCENE I. A Room in Susskind’s House. LIEBHAID, CLAIRE, REUBEN. LIEBHAID.The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.Look forth, Claire; moves not some big thundercloudAthwart the sky? My heart is sick. CLAIRE. Nay, Liebhaid.The … Continue reading
Alsace-Lorraine (George Meredith Poems)
I The sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With the night that spanned at golden gates.Mothers, they leave us, quickening seed;They bear us grain or flower or weed,As … Continue reading
Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever: Book XII. – The Many Mansions (Edward Henry Bickersteth Poems)
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk’d with God and sangAt cloudy morning-tide of evening light.Thine were the strains that floated o’er the wavesFrom Miriam’s timbrel and … Continue reading
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto VIII (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Admiration. ARGUMENT. Coeli trina MONAS, TRIAS una, faveto precanti! PERSONAS un? Tres DEITATE colo! Sunt tria, sunt & idem, Fons, Flumen, Gurges aquarum: Sic tria sunt unum, Sol, Jubar, atque; Calor. Th’ Elixir centuplies It self. But, … Continue reading
Patmos (Friedrich Holderlin Poems)
The god Is near, and hard to grasp. But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well. Eagles live in the darkness, And the sons of the Alps Cross over the abyss without fear On lightly-built bridges. Therefore, … Continue reading
Einstein (Archibald MacLeish Poems)
“Standing between the sun and moon preservesA certain secrecy. Or seems to keepSomething inviolate if only thatHis father was an ape. Sweet music makesAll of his walls sound hollow and he hearsSighs in the paneling and underfootMelancholy voices. So there … Continue reading
The Stream’s Secret (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
What thing unto mine earWouldst thou convey,-what secret thing,O wandering water ever whispering?Surely thy speech shall be of her.Thou water, O thou whispering wanderer,What message dost thou bring?Say, hath not Love leaned lowThis hour beside thy far well-head,And there through … Continue reading