Song Poems

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Love And Harmony

by William Blake

Love and harmony combine,
And round our souls entwine
While thy branches mix with mine,
And our roots together join.

Joys upon our branches sit,
Chirping loud and singing sweet;
Like gentle streams beneath our feet
Innocence and virtue meet.

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Four Songs Of Four Seasons

by Algernon Charl Swinburne

I. WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND
OUTSIDE the garden
The wet skies harden;
The gates are barred on
The summer side:
"Shut out the flower-time,
Sunbeam and shower-time;
Make way for our time,"
Wild winds have cried.
Green once and cheery,

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February Morning

by Hayden Carruth

The old man takes a nap
too soon in the morning.
His coffee cup grows cold.

Outside the snow falls fast.
He'll not go out today.
Others must clear the way

to the car and the shed.
Open upon his lap

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As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long

by Robert Louis Stevenson

AS one who having wandered all night long
In a perplexed forest, comes at length
In the first hours, about the matin song,
And when the sun uprises in his strength,
To the fringed margin of the wood, and sees,
Gazing afar before him, many a mile
Of falling country, many fields and trees,
And cities and bright streams and far-off Ocean's smile:

I, O Melampus, halting, stand at gaze:

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When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'D

by Walt Whitman

from Memories of President Lincoln

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When lilacs last in the dooryard 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.

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,

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Recent Song Poems

Song

by Peter Dr Lim

Not My Last Song

Most of my life-candle
has burnt out
but it's not the time
to bow out:

gently and quietly
I'll address myself

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Culture Shock

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Lila Pussycat lived with Mistress Irene, when moon dust decorated night;
And days had nostagia of yesterday, like mulberry sun, warm and bright.

In their cozy cottage at the edge of town, they lived quietly, day to day;
Like stillness hour of apricot noon, before currant butterflies waft away.

Laughter was often echoing in rooms, for Lila sometimes did cute tricks;
As when briefest rainbow disappears, after colorful, evanescent conflicts.

Fat fruit hung on trees of famished fall, in forthright days of late summer;

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