Long Praises Poems
Long Praises Poems. Below are the most popular long Praises by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Praises poems by poem length and keyword.
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
praises, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
praises, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans TranslationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
praises, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Let His Love Shine - Candle of Hope Style~Let His Love Shine ~
(Candle Of Hope )
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the Lord
Worship
Him
Let your heart sing Him praises
With His Love be...
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Categories:
praises, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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praises, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
praises, marriage,
Form:
Verse
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From TagoreSharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
praises, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans TranslationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
praises, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Let His Love Shine - the Candle of Hope Style~ Let His Love Shine ~
(Candle Of Hope )
~O~
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the Lord
Worship
Him
Let your...
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Categories:
praises, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Stepfathers who abducts his own children After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major hurricanes I decided to move north to his home town...
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Categories:
praises, angel, anti bullying, anxiety, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
praises, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...
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Categories:
praises, bible,
Form:
Ballad
But Just Where Is God(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
praises, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
Let His Light Shine - the Candle of Hope Style~ Let His Light Shine ~
( Candle Of Hope )
~O~
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the...
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Categories:
praises, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Sing Him Praises Forever - the Free Style~ Sing Him Praises Forever~
( Free Style )
Sing Him Praises and songs forever
Never stop Loving and Worshipping the Lord
After all He has created it...
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Categories:
praises, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Sing Him Praises - the Free Style~ Sing Him Praises~
( Free Style )
Sing Him praises and songs
Never stop worshipping the Lord
After all He has created it all
He made man from His own image
The Holy Bible just says it...
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Categories:
praises, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Doctors of Industrious DivinityDear Bishop Michael Cote, Doctor of Divinity
through pre-historic untold ages
through reborn renaissance stages
through industriously energetic praises
through enlightenment phases
through empowerment dysphasia
Some of us lesser health care practitioners,
good faith social workers,
teachers,
parents and grandparents,
uncles and aunts,
and ecofeminist inter-religious...
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Categories:
praises, christian, green, health, nature, passion, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Freedom of the PressABOUT THE PRESS
The media, the press was established as an institution to fight for humanity and human right as well. To serve as a mediator between the people underground and the...
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Categories:
praises, freedom, , western,
Form:
Ballad
Categories:
praises, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
praises, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
Robinson CrusoeI killed my friend,
I never wanted,
Do not see me cruel,
I did it for love.
We both ran naked
Under this influential shower.
No one uncoupled his lips
Against this faint madness,
We were indebted,
Either had to earn the prize.
It was...
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Categories:
praises, bereavement, betrayal,
Form:
Imagism
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote a long time ago and I thought I’d just put...
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Categories:
praises, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Freed From My Shackles - Translation From TagoreThis is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer, playwright, composer, social reformer and painter. He was a man...
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Categories:
praises, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Weddng Ceremony of the Dead, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Les Noces De La Mort By T WignesanThe Wedding Ceremony of the Dead, Part One, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Les Noces de la Mort by T. Wignesan
Orgy of stone !
I drank hate in your inferior parts
And bathed during a wild summer our...
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Categories:
praises, bereavement, marriage, religious,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
As I Take a TourIt is early in the morning;
I call you a new dawn;
A day that the Lord has made;
Of course for us to rejoice and to be glad in it.
Silently singing hymns of praise;
My...
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Categories:
praises, bible,
Form:
Free verse