DIVINITY POEMS
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Love And The Sea
Love one day, in childish anger,
Tired of his divinity,
Sick of rapture, sick of languor,
Threw his arrows in the sea.
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Madison Julius Cawein
Love one day, in childish anger,
Tired of his divinity,
Sick of rapture, sick of languor,
Threw his arrows in the sea.
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Madison Julius Cawein
The Girl I Admire
How shall I compare thee
thy beauty is luxury
is an angel out of duty?
or thy god has forsaken thee
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Mr. Philos
How shall I compare thee
thy beauty is luxury
is an angel out of duty?
or thy god has forsaken thee
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Mr. Philos
The Star
1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below
2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow,
3 And wind and curl, and wink and smile,
4 Shifting thy gate and guile;
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Henry Vaughan
1 Whatever 'tis, whose beauty here below
2 Attracts thee thus and makes thee stream and flow,
3 And wind and curl, and wink and smile,
4 Shifting thy gate and guile;
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Henry Vaughan
Finisterre
This was the land's end: the last fingers, knuckled and rheumatic,
Cramped on nothing. Black
Admonitory cliffs, and the sea exploding
With no bottom, or anything on the other side of it,
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Sylvia Plath
This was the land's end: the last fingers, knuckled and rheumatic,
Cramped on nothing. Black
Admonitory cliffs, and the sea exploding
With no bottom, or anything on the other side of it,
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Sylvia Plath
Christmas Eve
I
Out of the little chapel I burst
Into the fresh night-air again.
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Robert Browning
I
Out of the little chapel I burst
Into the fresh night-air again.
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Robert Browning
Pity
Nature of the mind is divinity,
Cultivate mercy in the fertile valley of good heart,
And shower it with Nondualism,
Everyone expect to be merciful to oneself,
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Norbu Dorji
Nature of the mind is divinity,
Cultivate mercy in the fertile valley of good heart,
And shower it with Nondualism,
Everyone expect to be merciful to oneself,
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Norbu Dorji
All Souls' Night
Epilogue to “A Vision'
Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church Bell
And may a lesser bell sound through the room;
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William Butler Yeats
Epilogue to “A Vision'
Midnight has come, and the great Christ Church Bell
And may a lesser bell sound through the room;
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William Butler Yeats
The Elder Brother.
Centrick, in London noise, and London follies,
Proud Covent Garden blooms, in smoky glory;
For chairmen, coffee-rooms, piazzas, dollies,
Cabbages, and comedians, fame'd in story!
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George Colman
Centrick, in London noise, and London follies,
Proud Covent Garden blooms, in smoky glory;
For chairmen, coffee-rooms, piazzas, dollies,
Cabbages, and comedians, fame'd in story!
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George Colman
The Wanderer
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so
Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves,
Back of old-storied spires and architraves
To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut,
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Alan Seeger
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so
Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves,
Back of old-storied spires and architraves
To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut,
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Alan Seeger
Mignonne
Whate'er thou dost thou'rt dear.
Uncertain troubles sanctify
That magic well-spring of the willing tear,
Thine eye.
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Coventry Patmore
Whate'er thou dost thou'rt dear.
Uncertain troubles sanctify
That magic well-spring of the willing tear,
Thine eye.
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Coventry Patmore
Satire Ii
Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate
Perfectly all this towne, yet there's one state
In all ill things so excellently best,
That hate, towards them, breeds pitty towards the rest.
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John Donne
Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate
Perfectly all this towne, yet there's one state
In all ill things so excellently best,
That hate, towards them, breeds pitty towards the rest.
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John Donne
The Gods Of Greece
Ye in the age gone by,
Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!--
And guided still the steps of happy men
In the light leading-strings of careless joy!
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Friedrich Schiller
Ye in the age gone by,
Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!--
And guided still the steps of happy men
In the light leading-strings of careless joy!
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Friedrich Schiller
Elijah
INTO that good old Hebrewâ??s soul sublime
The spirit of the wilderness had passed;
For where the thunders of imperial Storm
Rolled over mighty hills; and where the caves
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Henry Kendall
INTO that good old Hebrewâ??s soul sublime
The spirit of the wilderness had passed;
For where the thunders of imperial Storm
Rolled over mighty hills; and where the caves
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Henry Kendall
Hyperion: Book I
Deep in the shady sadness of a vale
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,
Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,
Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone,
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John Keats
Deep in the shady sadness of a vale
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,
Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,
Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone,
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John Keats
Unable Are The Loved To Die
809
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
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Emily Dickinson
809
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
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Emily Dickinson
Erasmus
When he protested, not too solemnly,
That for a world's achieving maintenance
The crust of overdone divinity
Lacked aliment, they called it recreance;
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
When he protested, not too solemnly,
That for a world's achieving maintenance
The crust of overdone divinity
Lacked aliment, they called it recreance;
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Half-asleep
O for the mighty wakening that aroused
The old-time Prophets to their missions high;
And to blind Homer's inward sunlike eye
Show'd the heart's universe where he caroused
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Thomas Wade
O for the mighty wakening that aroused
The old-time Prophets to their missions high;
And to blind Homer's inward sunlike eye
Show'd the heart's universe where he caroused
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Thomas Wade
Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto I
THE ARGUMENT
Sir Hudibras his passing worth,
The manner how he sallied forth;
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Samuel Butler
THE ARGUMENT
Sir Hudibras his passing worth,
The manner how he sallied forth;
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Samuel Butler
Truth.
We sometimes hap on truth in a strange attire,
As even the gods were wont for their designs
To take on bestial forms; subduing so
Their natures, even their divinity,
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Robert Crawford
We sometimes hap on truth in a strange attire,
As even the gods were wont for their designs
To take on bestial forms; subduing so
Their natures, even their divinity,
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Robert Crawford
God's Battleground
God dwells in you; in pride and shame,
In all you do to blight or bless;
In all you are of praise and blame,
In beauty or in ugliness.
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Robert Service
God dwells in you; in pride and shame,
In all you do to blight or bless;
In all you are of praise and blame,
In beauty or in ugliness.
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Robert Service
The Struggle
I have been down in a dark valley;
I have been groping through a deep gorge;
Far above, the lips of it were rimmed with moon-
light,
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Don Marquis
I have been down in a dark valley;
I have been groping through a deep gorge;
Far above, the lips of it were rimmed with moon-
light,
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Don Marquis
Fragments
I
In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned
Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules,
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Alan Seeger
I
In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned
Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules,
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Alan Seeger
At Hochfinstermuenz
Once more between its walls of pines
I see the long ravine expand
To where the ice-world's crystal lines
Define the realm of Switzerland.
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John L. Stoddard
Once more between its walls of pines
I see the long ravine expand
To where the ice-world's crystal lines
Define the realm of Switzerland.
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John L. Stoddard
To Revenita (11)
“Farewell?” No, not farewell, I'll worship ever
Thy form divine.
No death's despair, no voice of doom shall sever
My heart from thine.
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Madge Morris Wagner
“Farewell?” No, not farewell, I'll worship ever
Thy form divine.
No death's despair, no voice of doom shall sever
My heart from thine.
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Madge Morris Wagner
Equality
Mad fools! To think that men can be
Made equal all, when God
Made one well nigh divinity
And one a soulless clod.
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Arthur Weir
Mad fools! To think that men can be
Made equal all, when God
Made one well nigh divinity
And one a soulless clod.
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Arthur Weir
The Cloud
One summer morn, out of the sea-waves wild,
A speck-like Cloud, the seasonâ??s fated child,
Came softly floating up the boundless sky,
And oâ??er the sun-parched hills all brown and dry.
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Charles Harpur
One summer morn, out of the sea-waves wild,
A speck-like Cloud, the seasonâ??s fated child,
Came softly floating up the boundless sky,
And oâ??er the sun-parched hills all brown and dry.
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Charles Harpur
Ode To Sleep
Gentle divinity, how have I merited?
Whither, unfortunate wretch, have I strayed,
Thus of thy bounty to lie disenherited -
I alone whilst every other is paid?
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Pablius Papinius Statius
Gentle divinity, how have I merited?
Whither, unfortunate wretch, have I strayed,
Thus of thy bounty to lie disenherited -
I alone whilst every other is paid?
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Pablius Papinius Statius
Hyperion
BOOK I
DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,
Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,
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John Keats
BOOK I
DEEP in the shady sadness of a vale
Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,
Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,
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John Keats
Ned The Larrikin
A SONG that is bitter with griefâ??a ballad as pale as the light
That comes with the fall of the leaf, I sing to the shadows to-night.
The laugh on the lyrical lips is sadder than laughter of ghosts
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Henry Kendall
A SONG that is bitter with griefâ??a ballad as pale as the light
That comes with the fall of the leaf, I sing to the shadows to-night.
The laugh on the lyrical lips is sadder than laughter of ghosts
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Henry Kendall
Music
In vain, when musicâ??s seraph-fire
Runs kindling through the air,
Making it such as gods respire,
(And gods perhaps are there!)
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Charles Harpur
In vain, when musicâ??s seraph-fire
Runs kindling through the air,
Making it such as gods respire,
(And gods perhaps are there!)
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Charles Harpur
From The Forests
Where in a green, moist, myrtle dell
The torrent voice rings strong
And clear, above a star-bright well,
I write this woodland song.
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Henry Kendall
Where in a green, moist, myrtle dell
The torrent voice rings strong
And clear, above a star-bright well,
I write this woodland song.
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Henry Kendall
Melancholy -- To Laura
Laura! a sunrise seems to break
Where'er thy happy looks may glow.
Joy sheds its roses o'er thy cheek,
Thy tears themselves do but bespeak
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Friedrich Schiller
Laura! a sunrise seems to break
Where'er thy happy looks may glow.
Joy sheds its roses o'er thy cheek,
Thy tears themselves do but bespeak
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Friedrich Schiller
The Bridal Of Pennacook
We had been wandering for many days
Through the rough northern country. We had seen
The sunset, with its bars of purple cloud,
Like a new heaven, shine upward from the lake
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John Greenleaf Whittier
We had been wandering for many days
Through the rough northern country. We had seen
The sunset, with its bars of purple cloud,
Like a new heaven, shine upward from the lake
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John Greenleaf Whittier
Dion
. See Plutarch.
Serene, and fitted to embrace,
Where'er he turned, a swan-like grace
Of haughtiness without pretence,
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William Wordsworth
. See Plutarch.
Serene, and fitted to embrace,
Where'er he turned, a swan-like grace
Of haughtiness without pretence,
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William Wordsworth
Daphne
Musing on the fate of Daphne,
Many feelings urged my breast,
For the God so keen desiring,
And the Nymph so deep distrest.
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George Meredith
Musing on the fate of Daphne,
Many feelings urged my breast,
For the God so keen desiring,
And the Nymph so deep distrest.
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George Meredith
The Author Upon Himself
By an old â??â??pursued,
A crazy prelate, and a royal prude;
By dull divines, who look with envious eyes
On ev'ry genius that attempts to rise;
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Jonathan Swift
By an old â??â??pursued,
A crazy prelate, and a royal prude;
By dull divines, who look with envious eyes
On ev'ry genius that attempts to rise;
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Jonathan Swift
In Memory Of Radio
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
(Only jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
Or something equally unattractive.)
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Amiri Baraka
Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
(Only jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
Or something equally unattractive.)
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Amiri Baraka
Epistle To A Friend, On The Divinity Of Our Saviour
Inconcussa tenens dubio vestigia mundo..
Dear Disputant! whose mind would boldly soar,
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William Hayley
Inconcussa tenens dubio vestigia mundo..
Dear Disputant! whose mind would boldly soar,
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William Hayley
Epistle To A Friend, On The Divinity Of Our Saviour.
Inconcussa tenens dubio vestigia mundo..
1815.
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William Hayley
Inconcussa tenens dubio vestigia mundo..
1815.
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William Hayley
What Is Divinity
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
Shall she not find in comforts of the sun,
In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else
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Wallace Stevens
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
Shall she not find in comforts of the sun,
In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else
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Wallace Stevens
Hyperion, A Vision : Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem
CANTO I.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect; the savage, too,
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John Keats
CANTO I.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
A paradise for a sect; the savage, too,
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John Keats
Sunday Morning
1
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
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Wallace Stevens
1
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late
Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair,
And the green freedom of a cockatoo
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Wallace Stevens
Ezra Bartlett
A chaplain in the army,
A chaplain in the prisons,
An exhorter in Spoon River,
Drunk with divinity, Spoon River-
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Edgar Lee Masters
A chaplain in the army,
A chaplain in the prisons,
An exhorter in Spoon River,
Drunk with divinity, Spoon River-
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Edgar Lee Masters
I Prayed, At First, A Little Girl
576
I prayed, at first, a little Girl,
Because they told me to-
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Emily Dickinson
576
I prayed, at first, a little Girl,
Because they told me to-
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Emily Dickinson
It Feels A Shame To Be Alive
444
It feels a shame to be Alive-
When Men so brave-are dead-
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Emily Dickinson
444
It feels a shame to be Alive-
When Men so brave-are dead-
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Emily Dickinson