REVELATION POEMS
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Religio Laici
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars
To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers,
Is reason to the soul; and as on high,
Those rolling fires discover but the sky
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John Dryden
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars
To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers,
Is reason to the soul; and as on high,
Those rolling fires discover but the sky
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John Dryden
A Hidden Life
Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned,
Went walking by his horses, the first time,
That morning, to the plough. No soldier gay
Feels at his side the throb of the gold hilt
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George Macdonald
Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned,
Went walking by his horses, the first time,
That morning, to the plough. No soldier gay
Feels at his side the throb of the gold hilt
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George Macdonald
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
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William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
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William Butler Yeats
Mount Tabor
On Tabor's height a glory came,
And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame,
The awestruck, hushed disciples saw
Christ and the prophets of the law.
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John Hay
On Tabor's height a glory came,
And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame,
The awestruck, hushed disciples saw
Christ and the prophets of the law.
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John Hay
An Inventor
Not yet!
I thought this time 'twas done at last,
the workings perfected, the life in it;
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Augusta Davies Webster
Not yet!
I thought this time 'twas done at last,
the workings perfected, the life in it;
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Augusta Davies Webster
We Learned The Whole Of Love
568
We learned the Whole of Love-
The Alphabet-the Words-
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Emily Dickinson
568
We learned the Whole of Love-
The Alphabet-the Words-
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Emily Dickinson
Merlin Iv
The tortured King-seeing Merlin wholly meshed
In his defection, even to indifference,
And all the while attended and exalted
By some unfathomable obscurity
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
The tortured King-seeing Merlin wholly meshed
In his defection, even to indifference,
And all the while attended and exalted
By some unfathomable obscurity
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Merlin Vi
“No kings are coming on their hands and knees,
Nor yet on horses or in chariots,
To carry me away from you again,”
Said Merlin, winding around Vivian's ear
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
“No kings are coming on their hands and knees,
Nor yet on horses or in chariots,
To carry me away from you again,”
Said Merlin, winding around Vivian's ear
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
An Epistle
From Joshua Ibn Vives of Allorqui to his Former Master, Solomon
Levi-Paul, de Santa-Maria, Bishop of Cartegna Chancellor of
Castile, and Privy Councillor to King Henry III. of Spain.
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Emma Lazarus
From Joshua Ibn Vives of Allorqui to his Former Master, Solomon
Levi-Paul, de Santa-Maria, Bishop of Cartegna Chancellor of
Castile, and Privy Councillor to King Henry III. of Spain.
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Emma Lazarus
Influence
The fervent, pale-faced Mother ere she sleep,
Looks out upon the zigzag-lighted square,
The beautiful bare trees, the blue night-air,
The revelation of the star-strewn deep,
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Emma Lazarus
The fervent, pale-faced Mother ere she sleep,
Looks out upon the zigzag-lighted square,
The beautiful bare trees, the blue night-air,
The revelation of the star-strewn deep,
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Emma Lazarus
The Voices In The Night
I am the Raven con
of the world spirit
of blood and mire;
signal to the death,
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Joseph Mayo Wristen
I am the Raven con
of the world spirit
of blood and mire;
signal to the death,
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Joseph Mayo Wristen
The Faun
Within my garden's silence and seclusion,
In pensive beauty gazing toward the dawn,
There stands, mid vines and flowers in profusion,
A sculptured Faun.
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John L. Stoddard
Within my garden's silence and seclusion,
In pensive beauty gazing toward the dawn,
There stands, mid vines and flowers in profusion,
A sculptured Faun.
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John L. Stoddard
The Mountain Spring
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life freely.-Revelation 22:17.
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Nannie R. Glass
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let
him take the water of life freely.-Revelation 22:17.
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Nannie R. Glass
Be Not Anxious
“Be careful for nothing,” Phil. iv. 6. Revised version, “Be
not anxious.”
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Hattie Howard
“Be careful for nothing,” Phil. iv. 6. Revised version, “Be
not anxious.”
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Hattie Howard
Revelation
At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx,
I taste a strange apocalypse:
Your subtle taper finger-tips
Weave me new heavens, yet, methinks,
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Aldous Huxley
At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx,
I taste a strange apocalypse:
Your subtle taper finger-tips
Weave me new heavens, yet, methinks,
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Aldous Huxley
A Silence
past parentage or gender
beyond sung vocables
the slipped-between
the so infinitesimal
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Amy Clampitt
past parentage or gender
beyond sung vocables
the slipped-between
the so infinitesimal
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Amy Clampitt
Suum Cuique
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,
The tenants they extirpate or oppress,
And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,
Which the right owners ploughed with careful toil.
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John Dryden
When lawless men their neighbours dispossess,
The tenants they extirpate or oppress,
And make rude havoc in the fruitful soil,
Which the right owners ploughed with careful toil.
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John Dryden
Cut The Grass
The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time:
ground up fine, I puff if a pebble stirs:
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Archie Randolph Ammons
The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I'm surprised half the time:
ground up fine, I puff if a pebble stirs:
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Archie Randolph Ammons
To Johan Sverdrup
When now my song selects and praises
Your forceful name, think not it raises
The rallying-flag for battle near;
The street-fight shall not reach us here.
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
When now my song selects and praises
Your forceful name, think not it raises
The rallying-flag for battle near;
The street-fight shall not reach us here.
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
P. A. Munch
Many forms belong to greatness.
He who now has left us bore it
As a doubt that made him sleepless,
But at last gave revelation,-
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Many forms belong to greatness.
He who now has left us bore it
As a doubt that made him sleepless,
But at last gave revelation,-
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The Trees Are Down
and he cried with a loud voice: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees - Revelation
They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of
the gardens.
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Charlotte Mary Mew
and he cried with a loud voice: Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees - Revelation
They are cutting down the great plane-trees at the end of
the gardens.
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Charlotte Mary Mew
The Town Of Dae
Swains and maidens, young and old,
You to me this tale have told.
Where the squalid town of Dae
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Ambrose Bierce
Swains and maidens, young and old,
You to me this tale have told.
Where the squalid town of Dae
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Ambrose Bierce
Absolution
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before
The grate of the confessional, and he,
--The priest--had wondered why she came no more
To tell her sinless sins--the vanity
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Edith Nesbit
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before
The grate of the confessional, and he,
--The priest--had wondered why she came no more
To tell her sinless sins--the vanity
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Edith Nesbit
Not “revelation”''tis'that Waits
685
Not “Revelation”-'tis-that waits,
But our unfurnished eyes-
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Emily Dickinson
685
Not “Revelation”-'tis-that waits,
But our unfurnished eyes-
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Emily Dickinson
Voices Of The Night : Flowers
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the Castle Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden
Stars, that in the earth's firmament do shine.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the Castle Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden
Stars, that in the earth's firmament do shine.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Flowers
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not "revelation"—'tis—that Waits
685
Not "Revelation"—'tis—that waits,
But our unfurnished eyes—
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Emily Dickinson
685
Not "Revelation"—'tis—that waits,
But our unfurnished eyes—
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Emily Dickinson
Revelation
We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.
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Robert Frost
We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.
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Robert Frost
As Far From Pity, As Complaint
496
As far from pity, as complaint-
As cool to speech-as stone-
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Emily Dickinson
496
As far from pity, as complaint-
As cool to speech-as stone-
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Emily Dickinson
Ii. The Quest Of Silence
Secreta Silvarum: Prelude
Oh yon, when Holda leaves her hill
of winter, on the quest of June,
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Christopher John Brennan
Secreta Silvarum: Prelude
Oh yon, when Holda leaves her hill
of winter, on the quest of June,
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Christopher John Brennan
The Bean Field
…but infinities also passed out of this life,
not having any witnesses, how, when, or in
what manner they departed.
-Boccaccio, The Decameron
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Jocelyn Emerson
…but infinities also passed out of this life,
not having any witnesses, how, when, or in
what manner they departed.
-Boccaccio, The Decameron
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Jocelyn Emerson
Morning'means Milking'to The Farmer
300
“Morning”-means “Milking”-to the Farmer-
Dawn-to the Teneriffe-
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Emily Dickinson
300
“Morning”-means “Milking”-to the Farmer-
Dawn-to the Teneriffe-
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Emily Dickinson
The Lilac Is An Ancient Shrub
1241
The Lilac is an ancient shrub
But ancienter than that
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Emily Dickinson
1241
The Lilac is an ancient shrub
But ancienter than that
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Emily Dickinson
The Revelation
The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut;
Chained all day to the same old desk, down in the same old rut;
Posting the same old greasy books, catching the same old train:
Oh, how will I manage to stick it all, if I ever get back again?
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Robert Service
The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut;
Chained all day to the same old desk, down in the same old rut;
Posting the same old greasy books, catching the same old train:
Oh, how will I manage to stick it all, if I ever get back again?
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Robert Service
Spiders
Is the spider a monster in miniature?
His web is a cruel stair, to be sure,
Designed artfully, cunningly placed,
A delicate trap, carefully spun
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Delmore Schwartz
Is the spider a monster in miniature?
His web is a cruel stair, to be sure,
Designed artfully, cunningly placed,
A delicate trap, carefully spun
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Delmore Schwartz
Concerning Jesus
I.
If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race
Of forms divine had thenceforth filled the land!
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George Macdonald
I.
If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a race
Of forms divine had thenceforth filled the land!
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George Macdonald
Saint Romualdo
I give God thanks that I, a lean old man,
Wrinkled, infirm, and crippled with keen pains
By austere penance and continuous toil,
Now rest in spirit, and possess “the peace
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Emma Lazarus
I give God thanks that I, a lean old man,
Wrinkled, infirm, and crippled with keen pains
By austere penance and continuous toil,
Now rest in spirit, and possess “the peace
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Emma Lazarus
Sonnet Occasioned By The Second Of Henry Kirke White By Capel Lofft
Yes, fled already is thy vital fire,
And the fair promise of thy early bloom
Lost, in youth's morn extinct; sunk in the tomb;
Mute in the grave sleeps thy enchanted lyre!
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Henry Kirk White
Yes, fled already is thy vital fire,
And the fair promise of thy early bloom
Lost, in youth's morn extinct; sunk in the tomb;
Mute in the grave sleeps thy enchanted lyre!
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Henry Kirk White
To The United States Senate
[Revelation 16: Verses 16-19]
And must the Senator from Illinois
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Vachel Lindsay
[Revelation 16: Verses 16-19]
And must the Senator from Illinois
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Vachel Lindsay
Revelation
Into the silver night
She brought with her pale hand
The topaz lanthorn-light,
And darted splendour o'er the land;
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Edmund Gosse
Into the silver night
She brought with her pale hand
The topaz lanthorn-light,
And darted splendour o'er the land;
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Edmund Gosse
Fire's Reflection
Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
I Throw It All Away
You play with the great globe of union,
you that see everyone so clearly
and cannot be seen. Even universal
intelligence gets blurry when it thinks
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
You play with the great globe of union,
you that see everyone so clearly
and cannot be seen. Even universal
intelligence gets blurry when it thinks
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Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi