SANCTITY POEMS

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The Jackaw Of Rheims

The Jackdaw sat on the Cardinal's chair!
Bishop, and abbot, and prior were there;
Many a monk, and many a friar,
Many a knight, and many a squire,
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Richard Harris Barham
Endymion: Book Iv

Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse!
O first-born on the mountains! by the hues
Of heaven on the spiritual air begot:
Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot,
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John Keats

John Keats
The Ditch Is Dear To The Drunken Man

1645

The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man
For is it not his Bed-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
At The Gate

The monastery towers, as pure and fair
As virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;
The walls, to guard the hidden heart of prayer,
Were strong as sin, and white as sin forgiven;
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E. (edith) Nesbit
Vermilion

Pierre Bonnard would enter
the museum with a tube of paint
in his pocket and a sable brush.
Then violating the sanctity
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Linda Pastan
Vacillation

I

Between extremities
Man runs his course;
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
Of Heaven

Heaven is a place, also a state,
It doth all things excel,
No man can fully it relate,
Nor of its glory tell.
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John Bunyan

John Bunyan
A Moral Vindicator

If Mr. Jones, Lycurgus B.,
Had one peculiar quality,
'Twas his severe advocacy
Of conjugal fidelity.
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Bret Harte

Bret Harte
A Final Note

There is a deliberate pleasure in watching
someone smoke cigarettes. Even the echo
of that sentence smells like a stolen observation
that the smoker is deeply, darkly thinking.
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Amy King
In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory

I

Now that we're almost settled in our house
I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
The Silent Tide

A tangled orchard round the farm-house spreads,
Wherein it stands home-like, but desolate,
'Midst crowded and uneven-statured sheds,
Alike by rain and sunshine sadly stained.
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George Parsons Lathrop

George Parsons Lathrop
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

Emma Lazarus
To My Good Master

In fancy, always, at thy desk, thrown wide,
Thy most betreasured books ranged neighborly--
The rarest rhymes of every land and sea
And curious tongue--thine old face glorified,--
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James Whitcomb Riley
True Pleasures

Lord, my soul with pleasure springs
When Jesu's name I hear:
And when God the Spirit brings
The word of promise near:
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William Cowper

William Cowper
Among The Hills

PRELUDE
ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold
That tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,
Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,
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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
The Progress Of Error.

Si quid loquar audiendam.--Hor. Lib. iv. Od. 2.



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William Cowper

William Cowper
A Parting Ii

I WILL not wake you, dear; no tears shall creep
To chill the still bed where you lie asleep;
No cry, no word, shall break the sanctity
Of the great silence where God lets you lie.
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Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
Olney Hymn 49: True Pleasures

Lord, my soul with pleasure springs
When Jesu's name I hear:
And when God the Spirit brings
The word of promise near:
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William Cowper

William Cowper
A Sermon

Midsummer, 1867.
We have heard many sermons, you and I,
And many more may hear,
When sitting quiet in cathedral nave,
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Ada Cambridge
Vacilliation

I

BETWEEN extremities
Man runs his course;
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
A Song For Old Love

There shall be a song for both of us that day
Though fools say you have long outlived your songs,
And when, perhaps, because your hair is grey,
You go unsung, to whom all praise belongs,
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Muriel Stuart
A Moral Vindicator

If Mr. Jones, Lycurgus B.,
Had one peculiar quality,
'Twas his severe advocacy
Of conjugal fidelity.
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Bret Harte (francis)
Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931

Under my window-ledge the waters race,
Otters below and moor-hens on the top,
Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven's face
Then darkening through ‘dark' Raftery's ‘cellar' drop,
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
The Robin Is The One

828

The Robin is the One
That interrupt the Morn
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
The Treason Of An Accent

1358

The Treason of an accent
Might Ecstasy transfer-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
To The Stanch Dust

1402

To the stanch Dust
We safe commit thee-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
Paradise Lost: Book 07

Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name
If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine
Following, above the Olympian hill I soar,
Above the flight of Pegasean wing!
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John Milton

John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book 11

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn
From his displeasure; in whose look serene,
When angry most he seemed and most severe,
What else but favour, grace, and mercy, shone?
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John Milton

John Milton
High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
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John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Comrades

Three Holies sat in sacred place
And quaffed celestial wine,
As they discussed the human race
With dignity divine.
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Robert Service

Robert Service
On George Herbert's Poems

WHAT are these leaves dark-spotted and acerb?
'A very holy herb.'
To what good use may I this herb convert?
'Press it on thy soul's hurt.'
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James Thomson
Anticipation, October 1803

SHOUT, for a mighty Victory is won!
On British ground the Invaders are laid low;
The breath of Heaven has drifted them like snow,
And left them lying in the silent sun,
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Kinchinjunga

(Which is the next highest of mountains)


I
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Cale Young Rice
The Robin Is The One

828

The Robin is the One
That interrupt the Morn
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
Conquer Fear

A big black stone
Was thrown
Into our home
It perched in our minds
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Rose Marie Juan Austin
Eureka - A Prose Poem (an Essay On The Material And Spiritual Universe)

It is with humility really unassumed, it is with a sentiment even of awe, that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn, the most comprehensive, the most difficult, the most august.

What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity -- sufficiently sublime in their simplicity, for the mere enunciation of my theme?

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
The Twelve-forty-five

(For Edward J. Wheeler)


Within the Jersey City shed
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Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer
A Parting

FOR DOROTHY, 18th August, 1900


I will not wake you, dear; no tears shall creep
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E. (edith) Nesbit
A Neglected “woman's Right”

I have listened to this cry of “Woman's Rights,” this clamoring
for the ballot, for redress for woman's wrongs, and I could but
think, amid it all, that there is one “woman's right”-the right
that could make the widest redress for woman's wrongs-which she
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Madge Morris Wagner
The Pleasures Of Imagination - The Third Book - Poem

What tongue then may explain the various fate
Which reigns o'er earth? or who to mortal eyes
Illustrate this perplexing labyrinth
Of joy and woe through which the feet of man
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Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside
The Pleasures Of Imagination - The First Book - Poem

With what inchantment nature's goodly scene
Attracts the sense of mortals; how the mind
For its own eye doth objects nobler still
Prepare; how men by various lessons learn
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Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside
The Pleasures Of Imagination - The First Book

With what attractive charms this goodly frame
Of nature touches the consenting hearts
Of mortal men; and what the pleasing stores
Which beauteous imitation thence derives
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Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside
The Prelude - Book Eleventh

FRANCE (concluded)

From that time forth, Authority in France
Put on a milder face; Terror had ceased,
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The Prelude - Book Eighth

RETROSPECT LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE OF MAN

What sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard
Up to thy summit, through the depth of air
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
To Robert Southey, Esq., On Reading His Remains Of Henry Kirke White

Southey! high placed on the contested throne
Of modern verse, a Muse, herself unknown,
Sues that her tears may consecrate the strains
Pour'd o'er the urn enrich'd with WHITE'S Remains!
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Thomas Gent

Thomas Gent
The Last Envoy

THIS wind, that through the silent woodland blows,
O'er rippling corn and dreaming pastures goes
Straight to the garden where the heart of spring
Faints in the heart of summer's earliest rose.
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Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Seventh

"Powers there are
That touch each other to the quick in modes
Which the gross world no sense hath to perceive,
No soul to dream of."
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The Excursion - Book Seventh - The Churchyard Among The Mountains - (continued)

While thus from theme to theme the Historian passed,
The words he uttered, and the scene that lay
Before our eyes, awakened in my mind
Vivid remembrance of those long-past hours;
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
How Rich That Forehead's Calm Expanse

How rich that forehead's calm expanse!
How bright that heaven-directed glance!
Waft her to glory, winged Powers,
Ere sorrow be renewed,
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part I. - Xvii - Conversion

Prompt transformation works the novel Lore;
The Council closed, the Priest in full career
Rides forth, an armed man, and hurls a spear
To desecrate the Fane which heretofore
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth