Famous Reliance Poems by Famous Poets

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As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...aches,
And that he shall be fittest for his days. 

Any period, one nation must lead, 
One land must be the promise and reliance of the future. 

These States are the amplest poem, 
Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations,
Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, 
Here is what moves in magnificent masses, careless of particulars, 
Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the Soul loves, 
Here the f...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days

...d announcements of any. 

For we support all, fuse all, 
After the rest is done and gone, we remain; 
There is no final reliance but upon us;
Democracy rests finally upon us (I, my brethren, begin it,) 
And our visions sweep through eternity....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Frances

...slead me not again !

To words like yours I bid defiance, 
'Tis such my mental wreck have made; 
Of God alone, and self-reliance, 
I ask for solace­hope for aid.

Morn comes­and ere meridian glory
O'er these, my natal woods, shall smile, 
Both lonely wood and mansion hoary 
I'll leave behind, full many a mile....Read more of this...
by Bronte, Charlotte

Independence Ode

...th the rest! 

Not only in freedom, and science, 
And letters, should you lead the earth; 
But let the earth learn your reliance
In honour and true moral worth.

When Liberty's torch shall be lighted, 
Let her brightest most far-reaching rays
Discover no wrong thats unrighted -
Go challenge the jealous world's gaze! 

Columbia, your star is ascending! 
Columbia, all lands own your sway! 
May your reign be as proud and unrending
As your glory is brilliant today....Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Lost Shepherd

...l,
like golden faun in goatskin clad
He might be singing still;
He would have made the flock his care
And lept with gay reliance
On thymy heights, unwitting there
Was such a thing as science.

He would have crooned to his guitar,
Draughts of chianti drinking;
A better destiny by far
Than reading, writing, thinking.
So bent above his books was he,
His thirst for knowledge slaking,
He did not realize that we
Are worm-food in the making.

Ambition got him in its grip
And inched ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances

...OF the terrible doubt of appearances, 
Of the uncertainty after all—that we may be deluded, 
That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, 
That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only, 
May-be the things I perceive—the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing
 waters,
The skies of day and night—colors, densities, forms—May-be these are, (as
 doubtless
 they
 are,) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Reliance

...Not to the swift, the race: 
Not to the strong, the fight: 
Not to the righteous, perfect grace: 
Not to the wise, the light. 

But often faltering feet
Come surest to the goal; 
And they who walk in darkness meet
The sunrise of the soul.

A thousand times by night
The Syrian hosts have died; 
A thousand times the vanquished right
Hath risen, glorified.

T...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

Republican Pioneers

...We're marching along, we're gath'ring strong' 
We place on our right reliance, 
We fling in the air, for all who care, 
Our first loud notes of defiance! 
We fling in the air, 
For all who care, 
Our first loud notes of defiance! 

Laugh long and loud, you toady crowd, 
At the men you call benighted, 
In spite of your sneers, we are pioneers 
Of "Australian States United"! 
In spite of your sneers, We are pioneers 
Of "Austra...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

The Ancestral Dwelling

...gambrel-roof with its garret crowded with household relics, --
All the tokens of prudent thrift and the spirit of self-reliance. 

I love the look of the shingled houses that front the ocean;
Their backs are bowed, and their lichened sides are weather-beaten;
Soft in their colour as grey pearls, they are full of patience and courage.
They seem to grow out of the rocks, there is something indomitable about them:
Facing the briny wind in a lonely land they stand undaunted,
Whi...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

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