Famous Sincerely Poems by Famous Poets

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29. Song—The Rigs o' Barley

...rly;
I set her down, wi’ right good will,
 Amang the rigs o’ barley:
I ken’t her heart was a’ my ain;
 I lov’d her most sincerely;
I kiss’d her owre and owre again,
 Amang the rigs o’ barley.
 Corn rigs, an’ barley rigs, &c.


I lock’d her in my fond embrace;
 Her heart was beating rarely:
My blessings on that happy place,
 Amang the rigs o’ barley!
But by the moon and stars so bright,
 That shone that hour so clearly!
She aye shall bless that happy night
 Amang the rigs o’ b...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


57. Holy Willie's Prayer

...ile self gets in:
But Thou remembers we are dust,
 Defil’d wi’ sin.


O L—d! yestreen, Thou kens, wi’ Meg—
Thy pardon I sincerely beg,
O! may’t ne’er be a livin plague
 To my dishonour,
An’ I’ll ne’er lift a lawless leg
 Again upon her.


Besides, I farther maun allow,
Wi’ Leezie’s lass, three times I trow—
But L—d, that Friday I was fou,
 When I cam near her;
Or else, Thou kens, Thy servant true
 Wad never steer her.


Maybe Thou lets this fleshly thorn
Buffet Thy servant e’...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Story For Rose On The Midnight Flight To Boston

...hroat, that last profane 
gauge of a stomach coming up. And then returned 
to land, as unlovely as any seasick sailor, 
sincerely eighteen; my first story, my funny failure. 
Maybe Rose, there is always another story, 
better unsaid, grim or flat or predatory. 
Half a mile down the lights of the in-between cities 
turn up their eyes at me. And I remember Betsy's 
story, the April night of the civilian air crash 
and her sudden name misspelled in the evening paper, 
the interi...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Absalom And Achitophel

...me.
Thus prais'd, and lov'd, the noble youth remain'd,
While David, undisturb'd, in Sion reign'd.
But life can never be sincerely blest:
Heav'n punishes the bad, and proves the best.
The Jews, a headstrong, moody, murm'ring race,
As ever tri'd th'extent and stretch of grace;
God's pamper'd people whom, debauch'd with ease,
No king could govern, nor no God could please;
(Gods they had tri'd of every shape and size,
That god-smiths could produce, or priests devise:)
These Adam-...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

An Ode to the Queen

...nish Wine.
And when the final hour shall come to summon her away,
May her soul be wafted to the realms of bliss,
I most sincerely do pray, to sing with saints above,
Where all is joy, peace and love -
In Heaven, for evermore to reign,
God Save the Queen. Amen....Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz


Comus

...ed brute violence
With sudden adoration and blank awe?
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
And in clear dream and solemn vision
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear;
Till oft converse with heavenly habitants
Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape,
The unpolluted temple of the mind,
And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence,
Till all be...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Four Things

...a man must learn to do 
If he would make his record true: 
To think without confusion clearly; 
To love his fellow man sincerely; 
To act from honest motives purely; 
To trust in God and Heaven securely....Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

Hanchen the Maid of the Mill

...d preparing dinner for the family
She chanced to turn round, and there she did see
Heinrich Bottler, her lover, and she sincerely loved him,
Then she instantly got him something to eat and bade him begin. 

And in the midst of her business she sat down beside him,
While he did justice to the meat and thought it no sin,
But while he was eating he let fall his knife,
Then he commanded Hanchen to pick it up or else he'd take her life. 

Then as she stooped down to pick up the kn...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

Loch Ness

...Falls of Foyers and the woodlands so green,
That he exclaims in an ecstasy of delight -
Oh, beautiful Loch Ness!
I must sincerely confess,
That you are the most beautiful to behold,
With your lovely landscapes and water so cold.
And as he turns from the scene, he says with a sigh-
Oh, beautiful Loch Ness! I must bid you good-bye....Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Sewell

...is holy man has done,
"Which gives him brighter lustre than the sun.
"Listen, ye happy, from your seats above.
"I speak sincerely, while I speak and love,
"He sought the paths of piety and truth,
"By these made happy from his early youth;

"In blooming years that grace divine he felt,
"Which rescues sinners from the chains of guilt.
"Mourn him, ye indigent, whom he has fed,
"And henceforth seek, like him, for living bread;
"Ev'n Christ, the bread descending from above,
"And a...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis

On Time

...Eternity shall greet our bliss
With an individual kiss;
And Joy shall overtake us as a flood,
When every thing that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine
About the supreme Throne
Of him, t'whose happy-making sight alone,
When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall clime,
Then all this Earthy grosnes quit, 
Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time....Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Prelude

...l be the day
 Ere I come homing!

This earth is ours to love: lute, brush and pen,
They are but tongues to tell of life sincerely;
The thaumaturgic Day, the might of men,
O God of Scribes, grant us to grave them clearly!
Grant heart that homes in heart, then all is well.
Honey is honey-sweet, howe'er the hiving.
Each to his work, his wage at evening bell
 The strength of striving....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Sonnet LXIV

...MOURED OF LAURA.  I always loved, I love sincerely yet,And to love more from day to day shall learn,The charming spot where oft in grief I turnWhen Love's severities my bosom fret:My mind to love the time and hour is setWhich taught it each low care aside to spurn;She ...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students

...yet
to the sagging-breast motif; goodbye, you in San Quentin,
who wrote, "Being German my hero is Hitler,"
instead of "Sincerely yours," at the end of long,
neat-scripted letter demolishing
the pre-Raphaelites:

I swear to you, it was just my way
of cheering myself up, as I licked
the stamped, self-addressed envelopes,
the game I had
of trying to guess which one of you, this time,
had poisoned his glue. I did care.
I did read each poem entire.
I did say what I thought was th...Read more of this...
by Kinnell, Galway

The Nithsdale Widow and Her Son

..."God unto her was always giving;
And wi' the bit garden, alang wi' the bit coo,
And wi' what the laddie can earn we are sincerely thankfu'." 

To this pitiful detail of her circumstances the villain made no reply,
But drew a pistol from his holster, and cried, "Your cow must die!"
Then riding up to the poor cow, discharged it through her head,
When the innocent animal instantly fell down dead. 

Not satisfied with this the merciless ruffian leaped the little garden wall,
And ...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

To Longfellow

...ions of your letter, which I have left too long unanswered. Pardon the delay and believe me with great regard,

Yours sincerely,

Henry W. Longfellow....Read more of this...
by Sherrick, Fannie Isabelle

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