CORRECTION POEMS
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Intention
Acting rude for betterment of someone,
It may seem very bad externally,
Objectives behind rudeness is the correction,
Obscured to see & perceive sometime.
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Norbu Dorji
Michael: A Pastoral Poem
If from the public way you turn your steps
Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll,
You will suppose that with an upright path
Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent
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William Wordsworth
Only Words... My Son
Yield to love; both a proper self-love
and a sincere love for others.
One that will do no harm to you or your neighbor,
both here and for eternity.
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David Carolissen
An Essay Upon Satire
By Me Dryden And The Earl Of Mulgrave,[1] 1679.
How dull, and how insensible a beast
Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest!
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John Dryden
The Friar's Tale
This worthy limitour, this noble Frere,
He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance
Upon the Sompnour; but for honesty* *courtesy
No villain word as yet to him spake he:
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The Spagnoletto
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.
JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.
LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.
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Emma Lazarus
Love Is Not Theft
It is so strange for you are not what I thought you to be
I look into your eyes, and what am I to see
For the person you once were is not who you are today
The love we once had
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Lizzie Bowen
Sonnet Ix: As Other Men
As other men, so I myself do muse
Why in this sort I wrest invention so,
And why these giddy metaphors I use,
Leaving the path the greater part do go.
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Michael Drayton
Sonnet Cxi
O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
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William Shakespeare
Salford Parsonage
Lines delivered at housewarming of Salford Parsonage.
Your pastor's fame first got abroad
By his success on Culloden Road ;
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James Mcintyre
Two Wishes Xi
In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced the dwellings with his eyes. He say the spirits floating on wings of dreams, and the people who were surrendered to the Slumber.
When the moon fell below the horizon and the city became black, Death walked silently among the houses -- careful to touch nothing -- until he reached a palace. He entered through the bolted gates undisturbed, and stood by the rich man's bed; and as Death touched his forehead, the sleeper's eyes opened, showing great fright.
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Khalil Gibran
Psalm 107 Part 2
Correction for sin, and release by prayer.
From age to age exalt his name;
God and his grace are still the same;
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Isaac Watts
Michael - A Pastoral Poem
If from the public way you turn your steps
Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll,
You will suppose that with an upright path
Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent
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William Wordsworth
Sordello: Book The Fifth
Is it the same Sordello in the dusk
As at the dawn? merely a perished husk
Now, that arose a power fit to build
Up Rome again? The proud conception chilled
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Robert Browning
Sonnets: Idea Ix
As other men, so I myself do muse
Why in this sort I wrest invention so,
And why these giddy metaphors I use,
Leaving the path the greater part do go.
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Michael Drayton
A Nighttime Wish
A NIGHTTIME WISH
Father God, Thank You for this wonderful Night
Bringing me unto Greater Height
Thank you for giving me these eyes for sight
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Daydawn Daniel
A Nighttime Wish
A NIGHTTIME WISH
Father God, Thank You for this wonderful Night
Bringing me unto Greater Height
Thank you for giving me these eyes for sight
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Daydawn Daniel
The Dunciad: Appendix
I.--PREFACE
PREFIXED TO THE FIVE FIRST IMPERFECT EDITIONS OF THE DUNCIAD, IN THREE
BOOKS, PRINTED AT DUBLIN AND LONDON, IN OCTAVO AND DUODECIMO, 1727.
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Alexander Pope
Cunctation In Correction
The lictors bundled up their rods; beside,
Knit them with knots with much ado unti'd,
That if, unknitting, men would yet repent,
They might escape the lash of punishment.
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Robert Herrick
Sonnet 12 To Lunacie
As other men, so I my selfe doe muse,
Why in this sort I wrest Inuention so,
And why these giddy metaphors I vse,
Leauing the path the greater part doe goe;
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Michael Drayton
The Ghost. Book Iii
It was the hour, when housewife Morn
With pearl and linen hangs each thorn;
When happy bards, who can regale
Their Muse with country air and ale,
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Charles Churchill
Police Reports. Case Of Imposture
Among other stray flashmen disposed of, this week,
Was a youngster named Stanley, genteelly connected,
Who has lately been passing off coins as antique,
Which have proved to be sham ones, tho' long unsuspected.
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Thomas Moore
I Am Unique
I do everything in my way
I write poems in my way
I render poems in my way
Because I'm beautiful,
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Unanne Ngobeli
Change
Six letter word, c-h-a-n-g-e,
It is constant, important,a watch-word,
A tool for correction of that which is strange.
It is a magic for living in Concord,
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Ekene Eunice
Expose The Juxtaposed
The force of the righteous is full of the misguided,
A forsaken realm to which we're never invited.
The gullible minds of weakness,
Led by their own obliqueness.
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Aaron Butcher
Johnny O' Cockley's Well
The Text is taken almost entirely from a copy which was sent in 1780 to Bishop Percy by a Miss Fisher of Carlisle; in the last half of the first stanza her version gives, unintelligibly:
'But little knew he that his bloody hounds
Were bound in iron bands':
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Frank Sidgwick