ANNIVERSARY POEMS

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Remembrances

The anniversary of great heroes were observed,
For their unwavering service,
Thinking for the good causes,
Scarifying ones happiness on others.
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Norbu Dorji

Norbu Dorji
On A Young Lady's Sixth Anniversary

Baby Babbles--only one,
Now to sit up has begun.

Little Babbles quite turned two
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Katherine Mansfield
Anniversary

And we go on and on,
Neither sleeping nor awake,
Towards the meeting, unaware
That we are already there.
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Gabriela Mistral
Supplication Prayer

Coinciding of two auspiciousness
Auspiciousness as a birth anniversary of glorious root guru &
Miracles month known as Chothrul Dawa
I wish root guru live until the end of cyclic existence.
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Norbu Dorji

Norbu Dorji
Anniversary Hymn

[sung to tune: "All Saints New"]



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Katharine Lee Bates
To Mother Huberta

As repeated in chorus on the anniversary of her Names-day
by the Sisters of St. Hubert at St. Anthony's Hospital,
Denver, Col., Oct. 29, 1900.

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Alfred Castner King
Ribb At The Tomb Of Baile And Aillinn

Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night
With open book you ask me what I do.
Mark and digest my tale, carry it afar
To those that never saw this tonsured head
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
St. Andrews Anniversary

The following is a clipping from an old Ingersoll paper
on St. Andrew's Anniversary, 30th November, 1868 :

The Anniversary of Scotia's tetular [sic] saint was celebrated on Monday with great eclat
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James Mcintyre
For The Anniversary Of My Death

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveller
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William Stanley Merwin
Father, Father Abraham

(On the Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth)


Father, Father Abraham,
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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson
On The 100th Anniversary Of Anna Akhmatova

The fire and the page, the hewed hairs and the swords,
The grains and the millstone, the whispers and the clatter --
God saves all that -- especially the words
Of love and pity, as His only way to utter.
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Joseph Brodsky
The Anniversary

"This bunch of violets," he said,
"Is for my daughter dear.
Since that glad morn when she was wed
It is today a year.
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Robert William Service
A Dove...

She is not coming home...
I won’t believe she is not coming home…
Waking up every morning beside me will be my bliss…
Now and then your voice speaks softly into my ears…
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Oshifeko Opeoluwa

Oshifeko Opeoluwa
One Year Ago'jots What?

296

One Year ago-jots what?
God-spell the word! I-can't-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
For The Anniversary Of John Keats' Death

(February 23, 1821)

At midnight when the moonlit cypress trees
Have woven round his grave a magic shade,
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Sara Teasdale
Sonnet Xx. To The Countess Od A----

Written on the anniversary of her marriage.

ON this blest day may no dark cloud, or shower,
With envious shade the Sun's bright influence hide!
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Charlotte Smith
The Anniversary

“This bunch of violets,” he said,
“Is for my daughter dear.
Since that glad morn when she was wed
It is today a year.
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Robert Service

Robert Service
The Woman And The Wife

I-THE EXPLANATION

“You thought we knew,” she said, “but we were wrong.
This we can say, the rest we do not say;
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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Birthdays

Let us have birthdays every day,
(I had the thought while I was shaving)
Because a birthday should be gay,
And full of grace and good behaving.
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Robert William Service
One Year Ago-jots What?

296

One Year agoâ??jots what?
Godâ??spell the word! Iâ??can'tâ??
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
Birthdays

Let us have birthdays every day,
(I had the thought while I was shaving)
Because a birthday should be gay,
And full of grace and good behaving.
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Robert Service

Robert Service
Anniversary Song

WHY pacest thou, my neighbour fair,

The garden all alone?
If house and land thou seek'st to guard,
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Anniversary

ALL kings, and all their favourites,
All glory of honours, beauties, wits,
The sun it self, which makes time, as they pass,
Is elder by a year now than it was
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John Donne

John Donne
An Anniversary On The Hymeneals Of My Noble Kinsman, Tho. S

I.
The day is curl'd about agen
To view the splendor she was in;
When first with hallow'd hands
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Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace
Her Immortality

UPON a noon I pilgrimed through
A pasture, mile by mile,
Unto the place where I last saw
My dead Love's living smile.
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Homer And Laertes

Laertes: Gods help thee! and restore to thee thy sight!
My good old guest, I am more old than thou,
Yet have outlived by many years my son
Odysseus and the chaste Penelope.
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Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor
Mentana : First Anniversary

At the time when the stars are grey,
And the gold of the molten moon
Fades, and the twilight is thinned,
And the sun leaps up, and the wind,
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Anniversary Poem

ONCE, more, dear friends, you meet beneath
A clouded sky:
Not yet the sword has found its sheath,
And on the sweet spring airs the breath
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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
Poem Delivered On The Fourteenth Anniversary Of California's Admission Into The Union, Septemb

We meet in peace, though from our native East
The sun that sparkles on our birthday feast
Glanced as he rose on fields whose dews were red
With darker tints than those Aurora spread.
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Bret Harte

Bret Harte
On A Wedding Anniversary

The sky is torn across
This ragged anniversary of two
Who moved for three years in tune
Down the long walks of their vows.
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Dylan Thomas
On An Anniversary

After reading the dates in a book of Lyrics.

With Fifteen-ninety or Sixteen-sixteen
We end Cervantes, Marot, Nashe or Green:
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J. M. Synge

J. M. Synge
Celebrate

Celebrate our anniversary â?? canâ??t you see
tonight the snowy night of our first winter
comes back again in every road and tree -
that winter night of diamantine splendour.
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Anna Akhmatova
For The Anniversary Of John Keats' Death

At midnight, when the moonlit cypress trees
Have woven round his grave a magic shade,
Still weeping the unfinished hymn he made,
There moves fresh Maia, like a morning breeze
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Sara Teasdale
Christmas Folk-song

Those who die on Christmas Day
(I heard the triumphant Seraph say)
Will be remembered, for they died
Upon the Holy Christmastide;
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Duncan Campbell Scott
To George Frederick Watts

On the Eightieth Anniversary of his Birth,

High thought and hallowed love, by faith made one,
Begat and bare the sweet strong-hearted child,
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Boston To Florence

Sent to 'The Philological Circle' of Florence for its
meeting in commemoration of Dante, January 27, 1881,
the anniversary of his first condemnation.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Conspiracy Of The Cocked Hats - Prose

To the Editor of the Knickerbocker.

Sir: I have read with great satisfaction the valuable paper of your correspondent, Mr. HERMANUS VANDERDONK, (who, I take it, is a descendant of the learned Adrian Vanderdonk, one of the early historians of the Nieuw-Nederlands,) giving sundry particulars, legendary and statistical, touching the venerable village of Communipaw and its fate-bound citadel, the House of the Four Chimneys. It goes to prove what I have repeatedly maintained, that we live in the midst of history and mystery and romance; and that there is no spot in the world more rich in themes for the writer of historic novels, heroic melodramas, and rough-shod epics, than this same business-looking city of the Manhattoes and its environs. He who would find these elements, however, must not seek them among the modern improvements and modern people of this moneyed metropolis, but must dig for them, as for Kidd the pirate's treasures, in out-of-the-way places, and among the ruins of the past.

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Washington Irving
Morituri Salutamus: Poem For The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Class Of 1825 In Bowdoin College

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis,
Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.
Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Birthday Ode For The Anniversary Festival Of Victor Hugo

Strophe 1.
Spring, born in heaven ere many a springtime flown,
Dead spring that sawest on earth
A babe of deathless birth,
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne
For Anniversary Marriage-days

Lord, living, here are we
As fast united, yet
As when our hands and hearts by Thee
Together first were knit,
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George Wither

George Wither
The Flag

See the glorious stars and stripes,
Floating over there;
See how gracefully they wave
In the summer air.
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Julia Ann Moore
November Fifth

Anniversary of the Loss of H.M.S. Tweed



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Louisa Stuart Costello
Mentana: Third Anniversary

1


Such prayers last year were put up for thy sake;
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Mentana: Second Anniversary

Est-ce qu'il n'est pas temps que la foudre se prouve,
Cieux profonds, en broyant ce chien, fils de la louve?
La Légende des Siècles: - Ratbert.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Tercentenary Ode On Shakespeare

We had the honour of delivering in 1864 the principal address at the
tercentennial anniversary of Shakspeare in the Town Hall,
Ingersoll, before a large audience, and we read the following ode
on the occasion:
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James Mcintyre
Swiss Song, On The Anniversary Of An Ancient Battle

Look on the white Alps round!
If yet they gird a land
Where freedom's voice and step are found,
Forget ye not the band,
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Robert Burns

The following ode was delivered by the author at the Centennial Anniversary
of Burns, Ingersoll, in presence of a large assembly in the year 1859:

This night shall never be forgot,
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James Mcintyre
A Poem Served To Order

PHI BETA KAPPA, JUNE 26, 1873

THE Caliph ordered up his cook,
And, scowling with a fearful look
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Eton: An Ode

For the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Foundation of the College


I
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne
An Anniversary

I.
AS flower to sun its drop of dew
Gives from its crystal cup,
So I, as morning gift to you,
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Ada Cambridge