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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
The Decay of a People	William Gilmore Simms		English	This the true sign of ruin to a race— It undertakes no march, and day by day Drowses in camp, or, with the laggard’s pace, Walks sentry o’er possessions that decay; Destined, with sensible waste, to fleet away;— For the first secret of continued...
The Deep	John Gardiner Calkins Brainard		English	there ’s beauty in the deep: The wave is bluer than the sky; And though the lights shine bright on high, More softly do the sea-gems glow That sparkle in the depths below; The rainbow’s tints are only made When on the waters they are laid,...
The Defection of the Disciples			English	Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.-ST. MATTHEW xxvi. 56. FLED!-and from whom? The Man of woe Who in Gethsemane had felt Such pangs as bade the blood-drops flow, And the crushed heart...
The Deficit Demon			English	It was the lunatic poet escaped from the local asylum, Loudly he twanged on his banjo and sang with his voice like a saw-mill, While as with fervour he sang there was borne o'er the shuddering wildwood, Borne on the breath of the poet a...
The Definition of Beauty is				The Definition of Beauty is That Definition is none — Of Heaven, easing Analysis, Since Heaven and He are one.
The Definition of Love	Andrew Marvell	1681	Love	My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility. Magnanimous Despair alone Could show me so divine a thing Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown, But vainly flapp'd its tinsel wing....
The Demon-Lover	James Abraham Hillhouse		English	Scene. the terraced roof of ABSALOM’S house, by night; adorned with vases of flowers, and fragrant shrubs; an awning spread over part of it. TAMAR and HADAD. Tam. No, no, I well remember—proofs, you said, Unknown to Moses. Had. Well, my love, thou knowest...
The Departed	John Banister Tabb		English	They cannot wholly pass away, How far soe’er above; Nor we, the lingerers, wholly stay Apart from those we love: For spirits in eternity, As shadows in the sun, Reach backward into Time, as we, Like lifted clouds, reach on.
The Departure from Paradise	John Milton	1628	English	From “Paradise Lost,” Book XII. IN either hand the hastening angel caught Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappeared. They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld...
The Departure of the Swallow	William Howitt		English	And is the swallow gone? Who beheld it? Which way sailed it? Farewell bade it none? No mortal saw it go;— But who doth hear Its summer cheer As it flitteth to and fro? So the freed spirit flies! From...
The Derelict	Lucius Harwood Foote		English	Unmoored, unmanned, unheeded on the deep— Tossed by the restless billow and the breeze, It drifts o’er sultry leagues of tropic seas, Where long Pacific surges swell and sweep. When pale-faced stars their silent watches keep, From their far rhythmic...
The Descent of Odin. An Ode			English	Uprose the King of Men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed; Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela's drear abode. Him the dog of darkness spied, His shaggy throat he opened wide, ...
The Deserted Village	Oliver Goldsmith	1748	English	Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when...
The Destruction of Sennacherib	Lord Byron		English	From “Hebrew Melodies” THE ASSYRIAN came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the...
The Devil — had he fidelity			English	The Devil — had he fidelity Would be the best friend — Because he has ability — But Devils cannot mend — Perfidy is the virtue That would but he resign The Devil — without question Were...
The difference between Despair				The difference between Despair And Fear — is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the Wreck has been — The Mind is smooth — no Motion — Contented as the Eye Upon the Forehead of a...
The Dinkey-Bird	Eugene Field	1870	English	In an ocean, ’way out yonder (As all sapient people know,) Is the land of Wonder-wander, Whither children love to go: It ’s their playing, romping, swinging, That give great joy to me While the Dinkey-Bird goes singing In the...
The Dirty Old Man	William Allingham	1844	English	A Lay of Leadenhall [A singular man, named Nathaniel Bentley, for many years kept a large hardware-shop in Leadenhall Street, London. He was best know as Dirty Dick (Dick, for alliteration’s sake, probably), and his place of business as the Dirty Warehouse. He died about the year 1809...
The Disciples after the Ascension	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley		English	He is gone! beyond the skies, A cloud receives him from our eyes: Gone beyond the highest height Of mortal gaze or angel’s flight: Through the veils of time and space, Passed into the holiest place: All the toil, the sorrow done, All the...
The Discoverer	Edmund Clarence Stedman		English	i have a little kinsman Whose earthly summers are but three, And yet a voyager is he Greater than Drake or Frobisher, Than all their peers together! He is a brave discoverer, And, far beyond the tether Of them...