English Poems – Page 202

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• Dining

  From “Lucile”
  O HOUR of all hours, the most blest upon earth,
  Blest hour of our dinners! …

  E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton

• The Family Skeleton

  From “Modern Love”
  AT dinner she is hostess, I am host.
  Went the feast ever cheerfuller? She keeps …

  George Meredith

• The Epicure

  From the Greek by Abraham Cowley
  FILL the bowl with rosy wine!
  Around our temples roses twine! …

  Anacreon

• The Indian Weed

  This Indian weed, now withered quite,
  Though green at noon, cut down at night,
  Shows thy decay,— …

  Anonymous

• Smoking Spiritualized

  Was this small plant for thee cut down?
  So was the plant of great renown,
  Which Mercy sends …

  Ralph Erskine

• Without and Within

  Anonymous translation from the Italian
  IF every man’s internal care
  Were written on his brow, …

  Pietro Metastasio

• Fame

  From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV.
  WHAT ’s fame?—a fancied life in others’ breath,
  A thing beyond us, e’en before our death. …

  Alexander Pope

• Pelters of Pyramids

  A Shoal of idlers, from a merchant craft
  Anchored off Alexandria, went ashore,
  And mounting asses in their headlong glee, …

  Richard Henry Hengist Horne

• Enid’s Song

  From “Idyls of the King”
  TURN, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud;
  Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm, and cloud; …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Fortune

  From “Fanny”
  BUT Fortune, like some others of her sex,
  Delights in tantalizing and tormenting. …

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

• Undeveloped Lives

  Not every thought can find its words,
  Not all within is known;
  For minds and hearts have many chords …

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

• Augury

  I.
  a Horse-shoe nailed, for luck, upon a mast;
  That mast, wave-bleached, upon the shore was cast! …

  Edith Matilda Thomas

• “Keep sweet and keep movin’”

  Homely phrase of our southland bright—
  Keep steady step to the flam of the drum;
  Touch to the left—eyes to the right— …

  Robert Jones Burdette

• A Tear

  O That the chemist’s magic art
  Could crystallize this sacred treasure!
  Long should it glitter near my heart, …

  Samuel Rogers

• The Jester’s Sermon

  The Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair;
  The pages laughed, the women screamed, and tossed their scented hair;
  The falcon whistled, staghounds bayed, the lapdog barked without, …

  George Walter Thornbury

• At Midsummer

  The Spacious Noon enfolds me with its peace—
  The affluent Midsummer wraps me round—
  So still the earth and air, that scarce a sound …

  Louise Chandler Moulton

• A Sunrise Song

  Young palmer sun, that to the shining sands
  Pourest thy pilgrim’s tale, discoursing still
  Thy silver passages of sacred lands, …

  Sidney Lanier

• A California Christmas

  BEHOLD where Beauty walks with Peace!
  Behold where Plenty pours her horn
  Of fruits, of flowers, fat increase, …

  Joaquin Miller

• Yussouf

  A Stranger came one night to Yussouf’s tent,
  Saying, “Behold one outcast and in dread,
  Against whose life the bow of power is bent, …

  James Russell Lowell

• Beauty Unadorned

  From the Latin by Goldwin Smith
  From “Elegies” Book I. II.
  DEAR girl, what boots it thus to dress thy hair, …

  Propertius

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