Poems List

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

 

Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

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One God, one law, one element,

 

And one far-off divine event,

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Ring out the thousand wars of old,

 

Ring in the thousand years of peace.

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Ring out the old, ring in the new,

 

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

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There lives more faith in honest doubt,

 

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

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God’s finger touched him, and he slept.

 

In Memoriam A. H. H. (1850) canto 85

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So careful of the type she seems,

 

So careless of the single life.

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So many worlds, so much to do,

 

So little done, such things to be.

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Oh yet we trust that somehow good

 

Will be the final goal of ill.

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But what am I?

 

An infant crying in the night:

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