THRIVED POEMS

Long Ago

I once knew all the birds that came
And nested in our orchard trees;
For every flower I had a name-
My friends were woodchucks, toads, and bees;
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Eugene Field

The Great God Guff

There was once a Simple People - (you, of course, will understand
This is just a little fable of a non-existent land)
There was once a Simple People, and they had a Simple King,
And his name - well, SMITH the First will do as well as anything
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

We Had Him

Beloveds, now we know that we know nothing
Now that our bright and shining star can slip away from our fingertips like a puff of summer wind

Without notice, our dear love can escape our doting embrace
.....

Maya Angelou

Heroic Stanzas On The Death Of Oliver Cromwell, Written After His Funeral.

And now 'tis time; for their officious haste,
Who would before have borne him to the sky,
Like eager Romans, ere all rites were past,
Did let too soon the sacred eagle[1] fly.
.....

John Dryden

Paradise Regained: The First Book

I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung
By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
Recovered Paradise to all mankind,
By one man's firm obedience fully tried
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John Milton

Wherefore

Wherefore in dreams are sorrows born anew,
A healed wound opened, or the past revived?
Last night in my deep sleep I dreamed of you â??
Again the old love woke in me, and thrived
.....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Damon Vs. Pythias

Two better friends you wouldn't pass
Throughout a summer's day,
Than DAMON and his PYTHIAS, -
Two merchant princes they.
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

The Beggar

By gates of an abode, blessed,
A man stood, asking for donation,
A beggar, cruelly oppressed
By hunger, thirst and deprivation.
.....

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov

Joseph's Dreams And Reuben's Brethren (a Recital In Six Chapters)

CHAPTER I

I cannot blame old Israel yet,
For I am not a sage,
.....

Henry Lawson

The Baby's Vengeance

Weary at heart and extremely ill
Was PALEY VOLLAIRE of Bromptonville,
In a dirty lodging, with fever down,
Close to the Polygon, Somers Town.
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

Freedom On The Wallaby

Australia's a big country
An' Freedom's humping bluey,
An' Freedom's on the wallaby
Oh! don't you hear 'er cooey?
.....

Henry Lawson

Paradise Regained

THE FIRST BOOK

I, WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung
By one man's disobedience lost, now sing
.....

John Milton

The Princess's Finger-nail: A Tale Of Nonsense Land

All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,
Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,
Spread consternation and wild despair.
The queen was wringing her hands and hair;
.....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Ring Bounded By Fear

We dwell in a place like paradise
A picturesque nation with seven thousand one hundred seven islands
Lying just above the equator
Seated in the western part
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Rose Marie Juan Austin

Farmer Whipple--bachelor

It's a mystery to see me--a man o' fifty-four,
Who's lived a cross old bachelor fer thirty year' and more--
A-lookin' glad and smilin'! And they's none o' you can say
That you can guess the reason why I feel so good to-day!
.....

James Whitcomb Riley

Ayodrya, The Righteous City

Rich in royal worth and valour, rich in holy Vedic lore,
Dasa-ratha ruled his empire in the happy days of yore,

Loved of men in fair Ayodhya, sprung of ancient Solar Race,
.....

Valmiki

Damon V. Pythias

Two better friends you wouldn't pass
Throughout a summer's day,
Than DAMON and his PYTHIAS,
Two merchant princes they.
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

To The Immortal Memory And Friendship Of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir H. Morison

The Turn

Brave infant of Saguntum, clear
Thy coming forth in that great year,
.....

Ben Jonson

The Encounter

The way we met,
Oh! We met and hearts collided,

The day we linked,
.....

Sangeeta Nair

Mindfullness

Cleansing the minds obviously
by the morning dews,
I hastened to adapt my mind
into the absolute purity.
.....

Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar

Now You're Gone

You tiptoed away in the night
In the darkness, he thrived
You let him hold you
While I believed you were mine
.....

Dhushyanth S.p.

Memorable Euphoria

It was in a middle of a night
Dark as a night of two weeks
A heart cracker, when two simultaneous rocks
Swept away by monsoon rains failed to stand
.....

Symon Maguru

Oh Yesterday!

How can I forget the past and move on?
Therein lies the best memories I could think of
The good old days before technology triumphed
And played a role in the decadence of our world.
.....

Lil Destar

Blood And Brain

It didn't end with luck but
With blood and brain,
They only saw the smile, but not the pain,

.....

Sikiru Oyelami

The Terrible Tale

"'Tis now some thirty-seven years ago
Since first began the plot that I'm revealing,
A fine young woman, whom you ought to know,
Lived with her husband down in Drum Lane, Ealing.
.....

William Schwenck Gilbert

The Rat Retired From The World (prose Fable)

The ancients had a legend which told of a certain rat who, weary of the anxieties of this world, retired to a cheese, therein to live in peace. Profound solitude reigned around the hermit. He worked so hard with his feet and his teeth that in a few days he had a spacious dwelling and food in plenty. What more could he desire? He thrived well, growing large and fat. Blessings are showered upon those who are vowed to simplicity and renunciation!

One day a deputation from Rat-land waited upon him, begging that out of his abundance he would grant a slight dole towards fitting out a journey to a strange country where the rats hoped to get succour in their great war against the cat-tribe. Ratopolis was besieged, and owing to the poverty of the beleaguered republic they were forced to start with empty wallets. They asked but little, believing that in a few days help would arrive. "My friends," said the hermit, "earthly affairs no longer concern me. In what way could a poor recluse assist you? What could he do but pray for the help you need! My best hopes and wishes you may be assured of." With these words this latest among the saints shut his door.

.....

Jean De La Fontaine

Wherefore?

Wherefore in dreams are sorrows borne anew,
A healed wound opened, or the past revived?
Last night in my deep sleep I dreamed of you;
Again the old love woke in me, and thrived
.....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Farmer Whipple. - Bachelor

It's a mystery to see me - a man o' fifty-four,
Who's lived a cross old bachelor fer thirty year' and more -
A-lookin' glad and smilin'! And they's none o' you can say
That you can guess the reason why I feel so good to-day!
.....

James Whitcomb Riley

Without End

When the final breath escapes a trembling chest,
And silence falls where heartbeats once thrived,
Do not mourn as though all is lost,
For endings are but veiled beginnings.
.....

Gilbert Sordebabari