CIVIC POEMS

The Pied Piper Of Hamelin

A Child's Story

Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,
By famous Hanover city;
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Robert Browning

Prejudice

IN yonder red-brick mansion, tight and square,
Just at the town's commencement, lives the mayor.
Some yards of shining gravel, fenced with box,
Lead to the painted portal--where one knocks :
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Jane Taylor

No Brigadier Throughout The Year

1561

No Brigadier throughout the Year
So civic as the Jay-
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Emily Dickinson

Beautiful City

Beautiful city

Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion,
O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cadet Grey: Canto Ii

I

Where West Point crouches, and with lifted shield
Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;
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Bret Harte

The Rhymer's Reply. Incense And Splendor

Incense and Splendor haunt me as I go.
Though my good works have been, alas, too few,
Though I do naught, High Heaven comes down to me,
And future ages pass in tall review.
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Vachel Lindsay

Ode To W. Kitchener, M.d.

Author of
The Cook's Oracle, Observations on Vocal Music, The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, Practical Observations on Telescopes, Opera-Glasses, and Spectacles, The Housekeeper's Ledger
and
The Pleasure of Making a Will.
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Thomas Hood

A Town

A BUSY town mid Britain's isle,
Behold in fancy's eye ;
With tower, and spire, and civic pile,
Beneath a summer sky :
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Jane Taylor

A Civic Holiday Trip

Lines on a civic holiday trip on the Grand Trunk,
to Toronto, August, 1882. Address to Mr. Hodge,
conductor of Caledonian games at Ingersoll.

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James Mcintyre

Aldermen And Antirrhinum

I walked out with an alderman, all on a bright spring day.
He was an august alderman, and much had he to say
Of roads and drains and bridges .... Then, as he pulled up short,
His veins stood out in ridges, his breath fled with a snort.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Ode On The Death Of The Duke Of Wellington

1852

I.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Brother Jim

My brother Jim's a millionaire,
while I have scarce a penny;
His face is creased with lines of care,
While my mug hasn't any.
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Robert Service

To His Noble Friend, Mr Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems

Sir,
Our times are much degenerate from those
Which your sweet muse with your fair fortune chose,
And as complexions alter with the climes,
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Andrew Marvell

In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit Mdcccxxxiii: Part 113

'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise;
Yet how much wisdom sleeps with thee
Which not alone had guided me,
But served the seasons that may rise;
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Triumph Of Love

I

Sun-blazed, over Romsley, a livid rain-scarp.

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Geoffrey Hill

Ode To Captain Paery

'By the North Pole, I do challenge thee!'
From 'Love's Labour's Lost.'


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Thomas Hood

Warning To Suffragists

(”The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less
attractive.”-Anna H. Shaw.)


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Alice Duer Miller

Rome

Rome is but nature's twin, which has reflected Rome.
We see its civic might, the signs of its decorum
In the transparent air, the firmament's blue dome,
The colonnades of groves and in the meadow's forum.
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Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

Hail, Zaragoza! If With Unwet Eye

HAIL, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye
We can approach, thy sorrow to behold,
Yet is the heart not pitiless nor cold;
Such spectacle demands not tear or sigh.
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William Wordsworth

The Voices Of The City

The voices of the city-merged and swelled
Into a mighty dissonance of sound,
And from the medley rose these broken strains
In changing time and ever-changing keys.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Indian Summer

(After completing a book for one now dead)

(O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun,
She is not by, to know my task is done.)
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William Ellery Leonard

Nature's The Same As Rome, Was Reflected In It

Nature's the same as Rome, was reflected in it.
We see images of its civic might
In the clear air, as in the sky-blue circus,
In the forum of fields, the colonnade of the grove.
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Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

Respublica

The strident high
civic trumpeting
of misrule. It is
what we stand for.
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Geoffrey Hill

In Memoriam A.h.h (entire Poem!!)

OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII.


Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit Mdcccxxxiii: Part 069

I dream'd there would be Spring no more,
That Nature's ancient power was lost:
The streets were black with smoke and frost,
They chatter'd trifles at the door:
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit Mdcccxxxiii: Part 106

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

On William Francis Bartlett

O poor Romancer-thou whose printed page,
Filled with rude speech and ruder forms of strife,
Was given to heroes in whose vulgar rage
No trace appears of gentler ways and life!-
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Bret Harte

Monday In Easter Week

Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh
righteousness, is accepted with Him. Acts x. 34, 35.

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John Keble

The Prelude - Book Ninth

RESIDENCE IN FRANCE

Even as a river, partly (it might seem)
Yielding to old remembrances, and swayed
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William Wordsworth

On The Power Of Sound

I

Thy functions are ethereal,
As if within thee dwelt a glancing mind,
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William Wordsworth

Cadet Grey

Canto I

I

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Bret Harte (francis)

Echoes From Galilee

What means this gathering multitude,
Upon thy shores, O, Galilee,
As various as the billows rude
That sweep thy ever restless sea?
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Alfred Castner King

To Contemplation

Thee do I own, the prompter of my joys,
The soother of my cares, inspiring peace;
And I will ne'er forsake thee. Men may rave,
And blame and censure me, that I don't tie
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Henry Kirk White

Proverbs

One continent, one creed, one skin -
Our health and savour lie therein.
From wars and heavy things this grace is won -
They urge our pulse to unison.
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William Baylebridge

Ring Out , Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Benedetta Ramus

Mysterious Benedetta! who
That Reynolds or that Romney drew
Was ever half so fair as you,
Or is so well forgot?
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Andrew Lang

The Rhymer-s Reply. Incense And Splendor

Incense and Splendor haunt me as I go.
Though my good works have been, alas, too few,
Though I do naught, High Heaven comes down to me,
And future ages pass in tall review.
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Vachel Lindsay

Book I - Part 01 - Proem

Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars
Makest to teem the many-voyaged main
And fruitful lands- for all of living things
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Lucretius

A Wreath Of Immortelles

LORING PICKERING

_(After Pope)_

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Ambrose Bierce

The Siege Of Corinth

THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.


TO
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George Gordon Byron

The First American Congress

Columbus looked; and still around them spread,
From south to north, th' immeasurable shade;
At last, the central shadows burst away,
And rising regions open'd on the day.
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Joel Barlow

Shall The Harp Then Be Silent

Shall the Harp then be silent, when he who first gave
To our country a name, is withdrawn from all eyes?
Shall a Minstrel of Erin stand mute by the grave
Where the first -- where the last of her Patriots lies?
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Thomas Moore

Our Country

WE give thy natal day to hope,
O Country of our love and prayer!
Thy way is down no fatal slope,
But up to freer sun and air.
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John Greenleaf Whittier

Old Town Types No. 15 - Mrs Felix Donnett

Mrs Felix Donnett was a lady of renown,
For ten years her husband was mayor of the town;
For ten years she queened it as our local social light;
And 'everything she did, my dear,' was very, very right.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Mother And Poet

I.

Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one of them shot in the west by the sea.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Aesthete In The Avenue

Within the wooded avenue I stood,
And I was proud.
I looked upon the scene and found it good;
For here, I vowed,
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

Book Iii - Part 01 - Proem

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Lucretius

Fitz-greene Halleck

AT THE UNVEILING OF HIS STATUE.

Among their graven shapes to whom
Thy civic wreaths belong,
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John Greenleaf Whittier

Toowoomba

Dark purple, chased with sudden gloom and glory,
Like waves in wild unrest,
Low-wooded billows and steep summits hoary,
Ridge, slope, and mountain crest,
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George Essex Evans

An Argument

I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS

We find your soft Utopias as white
As new-cut bread, and dull as life in cells,
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Vachel Lindsay