Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

Hymn

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,Alike they're needful for the flower:And joys and tears alike are sentTo give the soul fit nourishment.As comes to..

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Nearer, My God, To Thee.

Nearer, my God, to Thee,Nearer to Thee!E'en though it be a crossThat raiseth me:Still all my song shall beNearer, my God! to Thee,Nearer to..

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O Love! Thou Makest All Things Even

O Love! thou makest all things evenIn earth or heaven;Finding thy way through prison-barsUp to the stars;Or, true to the Almighty plan,That out of..

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Part In Peace: Is Day Before Us?

Part in peace: is day before us?Praise His Name for life and light;Are the shadows lengthening o'er us?Bless His care Who guards the night.Part in..

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Love

O Love! thou makest all things evenIn earth or heaven;Finding thy way through prison-barsUp to the stars;Or, true to the Almighty plan,That out of..

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Margaret's Song

Too soothe and mild your lowland airsfor one whose hope is gone:I'm think of the little tarn,Brown, very lone.Would now the tall swift mists could..

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Ryton Firs

The DreamAll round the knoll, on days of quietest air,Secrets are being told; and if the treesSpeak out — let them make uproar loud as drums —'Tis..

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Roses Can Wound

Roses can wound,But not from having thorns they do most harm;Often the night gives, starry-sheen or moon'd,Deep in the soul alarm.And it hath been..

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Song From Judith 3

BALKIS was in her marble town,And shadow over the world came down.Whiteness of walls, towers and piers,That all day dazzled eyes to tears,Turned from..

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The Stream’s Song

Make way, make way,You thwarting stones;Room for my play,Serious ones.Do you not fear,O rocks and boulders,To feel my laughterOn your broad..

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Witchcraft: New Style

The sun drew off at last his piercing fires.Over the stale warm air, dull as a pondAnd moveless in the grey quieted street,Blue magic of a summer..

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Hope And Despair

Said God, 'You sisters, ere ye goDown among men, my work to do,I will on each a badge bestow:Hope I love best, and gold for her,Yet a silver glory..

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Epitaph

ir, you shall notice me: I am the Man;I am Good Fortune: I am satisfied.All I desired, more than I could desire,I have: everything has gone right..

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Emblems Of Love

SheONLY to be twin elements of joyIn this extravagance of Being, Love,Were our divided natures shaped in twain;And to this hour the whole world must..

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From "Vashti"

WHAT thing shall be held up to woman's beauty?Where are the bounds of it? Yea, what is allThe world, but an awning scaffolded amidThe waste perilous..

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Hymn To Love

We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee,As théou, Léove, were the déep thoughtAnd we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we,Thy..

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Genesis Bk Ix

ll. 438-441) I will let him sit next me, whoever shall return tohell proclaiming that they have set at naught, by word and deed,the counsels of the..

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Genesis Bk Xx

(ll. 1248-1254) Then the sons of God began to take them wivesfrom the tribe of Cain, a cursed folk, and the sons of men chosethem wives from among..

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Genesis Bk Xviii

(ll. 1082-1089) And there was also in that tribe another son ofLamech, called Tubal Cain, a smith skilled in his craft. He wasthe first of all men on..

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Genesis Bk V

(ll. 235-236) "...Eat freely of the fruit of every other tree.From that one tree refrain. Beware of its fruit. And ye shallknow no dearth of pleasant..

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Genesis Bk Xv

(ll. 872-881) And straightway God made answer unto him: "Tell me,My son, why stealest thou away into the darkness with shame?Thou didst not formerly..

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Genesis Bk Xvii

(ll. 1002-1005) Then the Lord of glory spake unto Cain, and askedwhere Abel was. Quickly the cursed fashioner of death madeanswer unto Him:(ll...

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Genesis Bk Xvi

(ll. 918-924) And unto Eve God spake in wrath: "Turn thee fromjoy! Thou shalt live under man's dominion, sore smitten withfear before him. With..

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Genesis Bk Xi

ll. 442-460) Then God's enemy began to make him ready, equippedin war-gear, with a wily heart. He set his helm of darkness onhis head, bound it full..

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Genesis Bk Xiii

ll. 684-703) Long she pled, and urged him all the day to thatdark deed, to disobey their Lord's command. Close stood the evilfiend, inflaming with..

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