Famous Persue Poems by Famous Poets

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An Invitation to Dafnis

...o' the painted meads, their way they sought,
Harmlesse in act, and unperplext in thought,
Lett us my Dafnis, rural joys persue,
And Courts, or Camps, not ev'n in fancy view.
So, lett us throo' the Groves, my Dafnis stray,
And so, the pleasures of the feilds, survey....Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill


Psalm 88

....
Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow
Thy threatnings cut me through.
All day they round about me go,
Like waves they me persue.
Lover and friend thou hast remov'd
And sever'd from me far. 
They fly me now whom I have lov'd,
And as in darkness are....Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Simplicity

...to pen.

So I refuse my brain to vex
With problems prosy and complex,
 Beyond my scope;
To me simplicity is peace,
So I persue it without cease,
 And growing hope.

"The world is too much with us," wrote
Wise Wordsworth, whom I love to quote,
 When rhymes are coy;
And simple is the world I see,
With bud and bloom and brook and tree
 To give me joy.

So blissfully I slip away
From brazen and dynamic day
 To dingle cool . . .
Now tell me friend, if in your eyes,
By being simple...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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