TRINITY POEMS

Almer Mater

Know you her secret none can utter?
Hers of the Book, the tripled Crown?
Still on the spire the pigeons flutter,
Still by the gateway flits the gown;
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Sir Arthur Quiller-couch

Christmas Eve

I

Out of the little chapel I burst
Into the fresh night-air again.
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Robert Browning

Elegy

Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
A youth to flats and flatties not unknown.
The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot;
Trinity, Cambridge, claimed him for her own.
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Aleister Crowley

Trinity Sunday

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye
believe if I tell you of heavenly things? St. John iii. 12


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John Keble

Marburg

I quivered. I flared up, and then was extinguished.
I shook. I had made a proposal - but late,
Too late. I was scared, and she had refused me.
I pity her tears, am more blessed than a saint.
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Boris Pasternak

The Ballad Of The Northern Lights

One of the Down and Out-that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare!
Stare and shrink-say! you wouldn't think that I was a millionaire.
Look at my face, it's crimped and gouged-one of them death-mask things;
Don't seem the sort of man, do I, as might be the pal of kings?
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Robert Service

Love's Trinity

SOUL, heart, and body, we thus singly name,
Are not in love divisible and distinct, But each with each inseparably link'd. One is not honour, and the other shame,
But burn as closely fused as fuel, heat, and flame.

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Alfred Austin

Evensong

(Holy Trinity Church.)


THE hectic autumn's dilatory fire
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Mathilde Blind

When Lilacs Last In The Door-yard Bloom'd

When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd,
And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
I mourn'd--and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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Walt Whitman

Two Pastorals

Made by Sir Philip Sidney, upon his meeting with his two
worthy friends and fellow poets, Sir Edward Dyer and M.
Fulke Greville.

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Sir Philip Sidney

Cassandra

I heard one who said: “Verily,
What word have I for children here?
Your Dollar is your only Word,
The wrath of it your only fear.
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Edwin Arlington Robinson

St. Patrick's Breastplate

I arise to-day
Through the strength of heaven:
Light of sun,
Radiance of moon,
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Kuno Meyer

Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity

I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and
there will I plead with you face to face. Like as pleaded
with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so
will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. Ezekiel xx. 35,
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John Keble

Twenty-fourth Sunday After Trinity

The heart knoweth his own bitterness: and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with his joy. Proverbs xiv. 10.


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John Keble

Abode Of The Beloved

Oh Companion That Abode Is Unmatched,
Where My Complete Beloved Is.

In that Place There Is No Happiness or Unhappiness,
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Kabir

The Ancient Town Of Leith

Ancient town of Leith, most wonderful to be seen,
With your many handsome buildings, and lovely links so green,
And the first buildings I may mention are the Courthouse and Town Hall,
Also Trinity House, and the Sailors' Home of Call.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall

Dark Trinity

Said I to Pain: "You would not dare
Do ill to me."
Said Pain: "Poor fool! Why should I care
Whom you may be?
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Robert William Service

Epitaphs Of The War

"EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE"

A. "I was a Have." B. "I was a 'have-not.'"
(Together.) "What hast thou given which I gave not?"
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Rudyard Kipling

The Questioner

I asked of heaven and earth and sea,
Saying: 'O wondrous trinity,
Deign to make answer unto me,
And tell me truly what ye be.'
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William Watson

Trinity Place

THE GRAVE of Alexander Hamilton is in Trinity yard at the end of Wall Street.

The grave of Robert Fulton likewise is in Trinity yard where Wall Street stops.

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Carl Sandburg

Adveniat Regnum Tuum

Thy kingdom come ! Yea, bid it come!
But when Thy kingdom first began
On earth, Thy kingdom was a home,
A child, a woman, and a man.
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Katharine Tynan

The Mary Gloster

I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim,
Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to listen to him!
Good for a fortnight, am I? The doctor told you? He lied.
I shall go under by morning, and, Put that nurse outside.
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Rudyard Kipling

The "mary Gloster"

I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim,
Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to listen to him!
Good for a fortnight, am I? The doctor told you? He lied.
I shall go under by morning, and, Put that nurse outside.
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Rudyard Kipling

Holy Sonnet Xvi: Father, Part Of His Double Interest

Father, part of his double interest
Unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me,
His jointure in the knotty Trinity
He keeps, and gives to me his death's conquest.
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John Donne

My Trinity

For all good friends who care to read,
here let me lyre my living creed . . .

One: you may deem me Pacifist,
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Robert Service

The Happy Man

To teach the grey earth like a child,
To bid the heavens repent,
I only ask from Fate the gift
Of one man well content.
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G. K. Chesterton

When Lilacs Last In The Door-yard Bloom'd

1

When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd,
And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
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Walt Whitman

Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story: Part Ii

The South Wind laid his moccasins aside,
Broke his gay calumet of flow'rs, and cast
His useless wampun, beaded with cool dews,
Far from him, northward; his long, ruddy spear
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Isabella Valancy Crawford

All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord: A Processional Of Creation

All.

I, All-Creation, sing my song of praise
To God Who made me and vouchsafes my days,
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Christina Rossetti

Give Me Women, Wine, And Snuff

GIVE me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out "hold, enough!"
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
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John Keats

The Leaf

This silver-edged geranium leaf
Is one sign of a bitter grief
Whose symbols are a myriad more;
They cluster round a carven stone
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Duncan Campbell Scott

Sonnet Of Motherhood Xlv

Dearest, your mother feels (though dead) this birthâ??
Laughs at the fire within your shining eyesâ??
Your eyes, yet mine, wherein such glory lies
Never before beheld upon the earth.
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Zora Bernice May Cross

Holy Sonnet Xvi: Father, Part Of His Double Interest

Father, part of his double interest
Unto thy kingdom, thy Son gives to me,
His jointure in the knotty Trinity
He keeps, and gives to me his death's conquest.
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John Donne

Patroling Barnegat

WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
Steady the roar of the gale, with incessant undertone muttering,
Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,
Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing,
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Walt Whitman

My Trinity

For all good friends who care to read,
here let me lyre my living creed . . .

One: you may deem me Pacifist,
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Robert William Service

A Trinity

Of three in One and One in three
My narrow mind would doubting be
Till Beauty, Grace and Kindness met
And all at once were Juliet.
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Hilaire Belloc

Columbus

Chains, my good lord: in your raised brows I read
Some wonder at our chamber ornaments.
We brought this iron from our isles of gold.
Does the king know you deign to visit him
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Prelude - Book Third

RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE

It was a dreary morning when the wheels
Rolled over a wide plain o'erhung with clouds,
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William Wordsworth

The Prioress's Tale

FROM CHAUCER

"Call up him who left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold."
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William Wordsworth

Recollection Of The Portrait Of King Henry Eighth, Trinity Lodge, Cambridge

The imperial Stature, the colossal stride,
Are yet before me; yet do I behold
The broad full visage, chest of amplest mould,
The vestments 'broidered with barbaric pride:
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William Wordsworth

On Resigning A Scholarship Of Trinity College, Oxford, And Retiring To A Country Curacy.

Farewell! a long farewell! O Poverty,
Affection's fondest dream how hast thou reft!
But though, on thy stern brow no trace is left
Of youthful joys, that on the cold heart die,
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William Lisle Bowles

A Litany

I.

THE FATHER.

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John Donne

The Candidate.

Enough of Actors--let them play the player,
And, free from censure, fret, sweat, strut, and stare;
Garrick[1] abroad, what motives can engage
To waste one couplet on a barren stage?
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Charles Churchill

The Battle Of Otterburn

THE FIRST FYTTE


It fell about the Lammas tide,
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George Wharton Edwards

The Happy Man

To teach the grey earth like a child,
To bid the heavens repent,
I only ask from Fate the gift
Of one man well content.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Britannia Rediviva

A Poem On The Prince, Born June 10, 1688.

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care
To grant, before we can conclude the prayer:
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John Dryden

Dark Trinity

Said I to Pain: “You would not dare
Do ill to me.”
Said Pain: “Poor fool! Why should I care
Whom you may be?
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Robert Service

Unholy Trinity

Though Virtue hurt you Vice is nice;
Aye, Parson says it's wrong,
Yet for my pleasing I'll suffice
With Women, Wine and Song.
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Robert Service

Eight Sunday After Trinity

It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of
the Lord. 1 King xiii. 26.


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John Keble

Eleventh Sunday After Trinity

Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and
oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and
menservants, and maidservants? 2 Kings v. 26.

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John Keble