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Death
by William Butler Yeats

NOR dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,
Many times rose again.
A great man in his pride
Confronting murderous men
Casts derision upon
Supersession of breath;

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Maude Clare
by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Out of the church she followed them
With a lofty step and mien:
His bride was like a village maid,
Maude Clare was like a queen.

“Son Thomas, ” his lady mother said,
With smiles, almost with tears:
“May Nell and you but live as true
As we have done for years;


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A Counting-Out Song
by Rudyard Kipling

What is the song the children sing,
When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring,
And the Schools are loosed, and the games are played
That were deadly earnest when Earth was made?
Hear them chattering, shrill and hard,
After dinner-time, out in the yard,
As the sides are chosen and all submit
To the chance of the lot that shall make them "It."
(Singing) "Eenee, Meenee, Mainee, Mo!
Catch a nigger by the toe!

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Fourth Of July
by Julia Ann Moore

Fourth of July, how sweet it sounds,
As every year it rolls around.
It brings active joy to boy and man,
This glorious day throughout our land.

We hail this day with joy and pride,
And speak of our forefathers who died;
Who fought for liberty in days of yore,
And drove the British from our shore.


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Scotland 1941
by Edwin Muir

We were a tribe, a family, a people.
Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field,
And all may read the folio of our fable,
Peruse the sword, the sceptre and the shield.
A simple sky roofed in that rustic day,
The busy corn-fields and the haunted holms,
The green road winding up the ferny brae.
But Knox and Melville clapped their preaching palms
And bundled all the harvesters away,
Hoodicrow Peden in the blighted corn

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Divine Longing
by Ayatullah Nurjati

You are the air that fills my soul,
The whisper in winds that makes me whole.
Yet human I am, with flaw and stain,
Yearning for purity, escaping pain.

In this love, where mercy overflows,
I find myself, in both highs and lows.
No earthly hand, no fleeting embrace,
But in Your sight, I find my place.


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Plum Delicious
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Jack Horner was an impish little boy, who lived on Cherry Orchard farm;
That produced varieties of fruit. For a mellowing sun, kept groves warm.

The Horners had always been a serious set-no nonsense, like spring rain;
And tried to teach their son responsibility, like time's jewels that remain.

But, alas, it was a big challenge, with hilarious grasshoppers in the hall!
Sent early to bed, he laughed long, the way you only laugh, when small.

Friends came face-to-face on fun Fridays, as February fled into summer,

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See How Badly I Hurt Inside
by Frangipani Rhett

I wish I could smash my heart with a hammer so everyone could see how badly I hurt inside.

I'd wear it with pride and pain in my eyes.

Porcelain cracked and peices lying, forgotten

I wish I could smash my heart with a hammer

So everyone could see how I feel inside.

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A bloody battle
by Saleh Ben Saleh

I lived a story,
In a bloody dream.
A fight for glory,
In a running stream.
The roaring sound,
Of rapid fire,
Onto the ground,
Good men retire.

I hear the screams,

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The Boxer - in Trumps own words
by Dr. Robert Ippaso

I play by the rules day in and day out,
Showing my class, wielding my clout.
I take the hard blows time and again,
Knowing my patience shan't be in vain.

Joe's on the ropes, all by himself,
Waiting around to be dumped on the shelf,
Restraint is my friend, as I pull back and watch,
Those flailing wild jabs I so easily dodge.


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  • Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser (20 poems about Pride)
    1552 - 13 January 1599 / London / England
  • Amelia Opie
    Amelia Opie (13 poems about Pride)
    12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853 / Norwich
  • Alexander Pope
    Alexander Pope (13 poems about Pride)
    21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744 / London / England
  • Giles Fletcher The Elder
    Giles Fletcher The Elder (10 poems about Pride)
    1548 - 1611 / Watford, Hertfordshire
  • Sir Walter Scott
    Sir Walter Scott (6 poems about Pride)
    1771-1832 / Edinburgh / Scotland
  • Thomas Chatterton
    Thomas Chatterton (5 poems about Pride)
    1752 - 1770 / Bristol / England
  • John Trumbull
    John Trumbull (5 poems about Pride)
    24 April 1750 – 11 May 1831 / Watertown, Connecticut
  • Lord John Wilmot
    Lord John Wilmot (5 poems about Pride)
    1647 - 1680 / Oxfordshire / England
  •  William Shenstone
    William Shenstone (4 poems about Pride)
    1714 - 1763 / England
  • Delmira Agustini
    Delmira Agustini (3 poems about Pride)
    24 October 1886 - 6 July 1914 / Montevideo / Uruguay
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