REVIVAL POEMS

Reincarnation

Seemingly too impossible
Yet,as day after night,inevitable
As the sun walked past the valley of the dead
We ,the long gone, stood in awe at the mark of a new century
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Fatsani Chione

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

Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn

By Sidney and Clifford Lanier.

[Not long ago a certain Georgia cotton-planter, driven to desperation
by awaking each morning to find that the grass had
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Sidney Lanier

Uncle Jim's Baptist Revival Hymn

By Sidney and Clifford Lanier.

[Not long ago a certain Georgia cotton-planter, driven to desperation
by awaking each morning to find that the grass had
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Sidney Lanier

Homer Clapp

Often Aner Clute at the gate
Refused me the parting kiss,
Saying we should be engaged before that;
And just with a distant clasp of the hand
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Edgar Lee Masters

The Revival

1 Unfold! unfold! Take in His light,
2 Who makes thy cares more short than night.
3 The joys which with His day-star rise,
4 He deals to all but drowsy eyes;
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Henry Vaughan

The Higher Unity

The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of
the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have been
devoured by the natives, as there has been a considerable
revival of religious customs among the Polynesians.-A
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G. K. Chesterton

Whistling Sam

I has hyeahd o' people dancin' an' I 's hyeahd o' people singin'.
An' I 's been ‘roun' lots of othahs dat could keep de banjo ringin';
But of all de whistlin' da'kies dat have lived an' died since Ham,
De whistlin'est I evah seed was ol' Ike Bates's Sam.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar

To Henry, Written To A Russian Air

How I hail this morn's appearing!
It will thee, my love, restore:
Safety danger past endearing,
Sure we meet to part no more!
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Amelia Opie

The Higher Unity

The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may have been devoured by the natives, as there has been a considerable revival of religious customs among the Polynesians.--A real paragraph from a real Paper; only the names altered.

It was Isaiah Bunter
Who sailed to the world's end,
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Sister Jones's Confession

I thought the deacon liked me, yit
I warn't adzackly shore of it--
Fer, mind ye, time and time agin,
When jiners 'ud be comin' in,
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James Whitcomb Riley

On Robert Emmet's Grave

VI.
No trump tells thy virtuesâ??the grave where they rest
With thy dust shall remain unpolluted by fame,
Till thy foes, by the world and by fortune caressed,
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Day-dream

PROLOGUE

O Lady Flora, let me speak:
A pleasant hour has passed away
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part Ii. - Xxxiii - Revival Of Popery

The saintly Youth has ceased to rule, discrowned
By unrelenting Death. O People keen
For change, to whom the new looks always green!
Rejoicing did they cast upon the ground
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William Wordsworth

St. Winefred's Well

ACT I. SC. I

Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

A Classical Revival

At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention
To revive the classic memories of Athens at its best,
For my company possesses all the necessary dresses,
And a course of quiet cramming will supply us with the rest.
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William Schwenck Gilbert

Young Afrikans

of the furious

Who take Today and jerk it out of joint
have made new underpinnings and a Head.
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Gwendolyn Brooks

The River Duddon - A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. - To The Rev. Dr. Wordsworth

The Minstrels played their Christmas tune
To-night beneath my cottage-eaves;
While, smitten by a lofty moon,
The encircling laurels, thick with leaves,
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William Wordsworth

Christmas Eve - Prose

Saint Francis and Saint Benedight
Blesse this house from wicked wight;
From the night-mare and the goblin,
That is hight good fellow Robin;
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Washington Irving

Of Three Children

OF THREE CHILDREN CHOOSING
A CHAPLET OF VERSE

You and I and Burd so blitheâ??
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Sir Arthur Quiller-couch

The Columbiad: Book Iv

The Argument


Destruction of Peru foretold. Grief of Columbus. He is comforte the promise of a vision of future ages. All Europe appears in vision. Effect of the discovery of America upon the affairs of Europe. Improvement in commerce; government. Revival of letters. Order of the Jesuits. Religious persecution. Inquisition. Rise and progress of more liberal principles. Character of Raleigh; who plans the settlement of North America. Formation of the coast by the gulph stream. Nature of the colonial establishments, the first great asylum and infant empire of Liberty. Liberty the necessary foundation of morals. Delaware arrives with a reinforcement of new settlers, to consolidate the colony of Virginia. Night scene, as contemplated by these patriarchs, while they are sailing up the Chesapeak, and are saluted by the river gods. Prophetic speech of Potowmak. Fleets of settlers from seyeral parts of Europe steering for America.
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Joel Barlow

A Grammarian's Funeral Shortly After The Revival Of Learnin

Let us begin and carry up this corpse,
Singing together.
Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes
Each in its tether
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Robert Browning

To The Moon - Rydal

Queen of the stars! so gentle, so benign,
That ancient Fable did to thee assign,
When darkness creeping o'er thy silver brow
Warned thee these upper regions to forego,
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William Wordsworth

Revival

So I went wrong,
Grievously wrong, but folly crushed itself,
And vanity o'ertoppling fell, and time
And healthy discipline and some neglect,
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Arthur Hugh Clough

After Sunset - Sonnets

'Si quis piorum Manibus locus.'


I.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Grammarian's Funeral

Shortly after the Revival of Learning in Europe


Let us begin and carry up this corpse,
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Robert Browning

Hawthorn Tide

I
Dawn is alive in the world, and the darkness of heaven and of earth
Subsides in the light of a smile more sweet than the loud noon's mirth,
Spring lives as a babe lives, glad and divine as the sun, and unsure
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Algernon Charles Swinburne

Bendy's Sermon

[Bendigo, the well-known Nottingham prize fighter, became converted to religion, and preached at revival meetings throughout the country.]

You didn't know of Bendigo! Well, that knocks me out!
Who's your board school teacher? What's he been about?
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Verses On The Revival Of The Order Of The Bath,[1]

DURING WALPOLE'S ADMINISTRATION, A. D. 1725

Quoth King Robin, our ribbons I see are too few
Of St. Andrew's the green, and St. George's the blue.
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Jonathan Swift

At Zekesbury

The little town, as I recall it, was of just enough dignity and dearth of the same to be an ordinary county seat in Indiana - "The Grand Old Hoosier State," as it was used to being howlingly referred to by the forensic stump orator from the old stand in the courthouse yard - a political campaign being the wildest delight that Zekesbury might ever hope to call its own.

Through years the fitful happenings of the town and its vicinity went on the same - the same! Annually about one circus ventured in, and vanished, and was gone, even as a passing trumpet-blast; the usual rainy-season swelled the "Crick," the driftage choking at "the covered bridge," and backing water till the old road looked amphibious; and crowds of curious townsfolk straggled down to look upon the watery wonder, and lean awe-struck above it, and spit in it, and turn mutely home again.

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James Whitcomb Riley

Time Comes Forth

she is on a voyage
age shouldn't tell
bell won't alarm us
horses flapping their wings
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Abiodun Adeyemo

Falling Leaves

They move in a flow
An unbeatable blend of colours
Landing very low
The shape changes to an unknown
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Zwothe Mulaudzi

Hellfire Iv

A father stretched his son's finger to a fire,
He held it tight until the boy screamed out
Loud breaking the calmness of the earth.
He said the boy stole a meat from the pot,
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John Chizoba Vincent

Of Three Children Choosing - A Chaplet Of Verse

You and I and Burd so blithe--
Burd so blithe, and you, and I--
The Mower he would whet his scythe
Before the dew was dry.
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Arthur Thomas Quiller-couch

Revival Of Nature

Drenching the earth in the freshest ultraviolet radiation,
Is the cherry faced Sun,flush with exultation
Brimming with exuberance our feather-friends fly from afar,
Flapping their colourful plumes
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Lathu Gop

"panademic Stories To Tell When We Turn Grey And Old"

The word lockdown may sound like oppression,
for some of is sort of deep depression,
But for few like me, we feel a deep connection.

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Nidhi Sharma