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A dozen poems

For August 21, 2008

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Ballade of my Lady's Beauty, by Joyce Kilmer



Squire Adam had two wives, they say,
Two wives had he, for his delight,
He kissed and clypt them all the day
And clypt and kissed them all the night.
Now Eve like ocean foam was white

Complete Poem

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The Desert, by Antonio Hernandez



The desert is a place of blistering, wounding heat, my friend,
Where mean, obnoxious creatures guard their lives,
and here I live while running on the heels
of my sad prey, surviving by the hunt.

Look on, my love- I am your love, look on!

Complete Poem


Blind, by Harry Kemp



The Spring blew trumpets of color;
Her Green sang in my brain --
I heard a blind man groping
"Tap -- tap" with his cane;

I pitied him in his blindness;

Complete Poem


As ye came from the Holy Land, by Anonymous



AS ye came from the holy land
Of Walsinghame,
Met you not with my true love
By the way as you came?

How should I know your true love,

Complete Poem


Quis Separabit?, by Philip Joseph Holdsworth



All my life's short years had been stern and sterile --
I stood like one whom the blasts blow back --
As with shipmen whirled through the straits of Peril,
So fierce foes menaced my every track.

But I steeled my soul to a strong endeavour,

Complete Poem


The Wardens of the Seas, by Edwin James Brady



Like star points in the ether to guide a homing soul
Towards God's Eternal Haven; above the wash and roll,
Across and o'er the oceans, on all the coasts they stand
Tall seneschals of commerce, High Wardens of the Strand --
The white lights slowly turning

Complete Poem


Say not the Struggle Naught availeth, by Arthur Hugh Clough



SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;

Complete Poem


Voyage a l'Infini, by Walter Conrad Arensberg



The swan existing
Is like a song with an accompaniment
Imaginary.

Across the grassy lake,
Across the lake to the shadow of the willows,

Complete Poem


Aurora, by William Alexander Earl of Stirling



O HAPPY Tithon! if thou know'st thy hap,
And valuest thy wealth, as I my want,
Then need'st thou not--which ah! I grieve to grant--
Repine at Jove, lull'd in his leman's lap:
That golden shower in which he did repose--

Complete Poem


Ye Mariners of England, by Thomas Campbell



YE Mariners of England
That guard our native seas!
Whose flag has braved a thousand years
The battle and the breeze!
Your glorious standard launch again

Complete Poem


Beyond Rathkelly, by Francis Carlin



As I went over the Far Hill,
Just beyond Rathkelly,
-- Och, to be on the Far Hill
O'er Newtonstewart Town!
As I went over the Far Hill

Complete Poem


Hope, by Tom Ramsey



Hope swirls around the little boy's head
Jumping on the bed Christmas morning
Giddy and laughing

Hope carries him on fairy wings
Down the stairs to the den at six a.m.

Complete Poem


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