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The term "O pray My pray my wings are gonna fit me well" has been searched for 111 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on August 12th, 2005.
1. Two Went up into the Temple to Pray - written by Richard Crashaw
Read 362 times on Poetry Connection.
Two went to pray? O rather say
One went to brag, th' other to pray:
One stands up close and treads on high,
Where th' other dares not send his eye.
One nearer to God's altar trod,
The other to the altar's God. (Read full poem)
2. PRAY AND PROSPER - written by Robert Herrick
Read 320 times on Poetry Connection.
First offer incense; then, thy field and meads
Shall smile and smell the better by thy beads.
The spangling dew dredged o'er the grass shall be
Turn'd all to mell and manna there for thee.
Butter of amber, cream, and wine, and oil,
Shall run... (Read full poem)
3. I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day - written by William Blake
Read 841 times on Poetry Connection.
I rose up at the dawn of day--
`Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for riches? Away! away!
This is the Throne of Mammon grey.'
Said I: This, sure, is very odd;
I took it to be the Throne of God.
For everything besides I have:
It... (Read full poem)
4. The Last Supper - written by Robert William Service
From Songs of a Sun-Lover.
Read 600 times on Poetry Connection.
Marie Vaux of the Painted Lips,
And the mouth so mocking gay,
A wanton you to the finger-tips,
Who break men's hearts in play;
A thing of dust I have striven for,
Honour and manhood given for,
Headlong to ruin driven for,
And this is the last, you... (Read full poem)
6. The Ballad Of The Hanged Men - written by Francois Villon
Published in 1462.
Read 1264 times on Poetry Connection.
Men my brothers who after us live,
have your hearts against us not hardened.
For—if of poor us you take pity,
God of you sooner will show mercy.
You see us here, attached.
As for the flesh we too well have fed,
long since it's been devoured... (Read full poem)
7. Rosalind's Scroll - written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Read 658 times on Poetry Connection.
I LEFT thee last, a child at heart,
A woman scarce in years:
I come to thee, a solemn corpse
Which neither feels nor fears.
I have no breath to use in sighs;
They laid the dead-weights on mine eyes
To seal them safe from tears.... (Read full poem)
8. Ommission - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger.
Read 472 times on Poetry Connection.
What man has not betrayed
Some sacred trust?
If haply you are made
Of honest dust,
Vaunt not of glory due,
Of triumph won:
Think, think of duties you
Have left undone.
But if in mercy hope,
Despite your sin,
The... (Read full poem)
9. Negress In Notre Dame - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 545 times on Poetry Connection.
When I attended Mass today
A coloured maid sat down by me,
And as I watched her kneel and pray,
Her reverence was good to see.
For whether there may be or no'
A merciful and mighty God,
The love for Him is like a glow
That glorifies the meanest... (Read full poem)
10. Epitaph In The Form Of A Ballade - written by Francois Villon
Read 903 times on Poetry Connection.
Freres humains qui apres nous vivez,
N'ayez les coeurs contre nous endurcis ...
Men, brother men, that after us yet live,
Let not your hearts too hard against us be;
For if some pity of us poor men ye give,
The sooner God shall take of... (Read full poem)
11. Our Daily Bread - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 798 times on Poetry Connection.
"Give me my daily bread.
It seems so odd,
When all is done and said,
This plea to God.
To pray for cake might be
The thing to do;
But bread, it seems to me,
Is just our due.
"Give me my daily toil,"
I ought to say -
(If from life's cursed coil
I'd... (Read full poem)
12. The Return - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone.
Read 447 times on Poetry Connection.
They turned him loose; he bowed his head,
A felon, bent and grey.
His face was even as the Dead,
He had no word to say.
He sought the home of his old love,
To look on her once more;
And where her roses breathed above,
He cowered... (Read full poem)
13. Bill's Prayer - written by Robert William Service
From Carols of an Old Codger.
Read 663 times on Poetry Connection.
I never thought that Bill could say
A proper prayer;
'Twas more in his hard-bitten way
To cuss and swear;
Yet came the night when Baby Ted
Was bitter ill,
I tip-toed to his tiny bed,
And there was Bill.... (Read full poem)
14. Mohini Chatterjee - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
Published in 1933.
Read 1139 times on Poetry Connection.
I asked if I should pray.
But the Brahmin said,
'pray for nothing, say
Every night in bed,
'I have been a king,
I have been a slave,
Nor is there anything.
Fool, rascal, knave,
That I have not been,
And yet upon my breast
A myriad heads have... (Read full poem)
15. Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray - written by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Read 1174 times on Poetry Connection.
Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray,
But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks
Wants war, wants wounds; weary his times, his tasks;
To do without, take tosses, and obey.
Rare patience roots in these, and, these away,
Nowhere.... (Read full poem)
16. The Maid's Lament - written by Walter Savage Landor
Read 388 times on Poetry Connection.
I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone,
I feel I am alone.
I check'd him while he spoke; yet, could he speak,
Alas! I would not check.
For reasons not to love him once I sought,
And wearied all my thought
To vex myself and him: I now would... (Read full poem)
17. THE MAD MAID'S SONG - written by Robert Herrick
Read 387 times on Poetry Connection.
Good morrow to the day so fair;
Good morning, sir, to you;
Good morrow to mine own torn hair,
Bedabbled with the dew.
Good morning to this primrose too;
Good morrow to each maid;
That will with flowers the tomb bestrew
Wherein my Love is... (Read full poem)
18. To The Reader - written by Ben Jonson
Read 871 times on Poetry Connection.
Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well -- that is, to understand.(Read full poem)
19. Now What Is Love - written by Sir Walter Raleigh
Read 1032 times on Poetry Connection.
Now what is Love, I pray thee, tell?
It is that fountain and that well
Where pleasure and repentance dwell;
It is, perhaps, the sauncing bell
That tolls all into heaven or hell;
And this is Love, as I hear tell.
Yet what is Love, I prithee,... (Read full poem)
20. No, Thank You John - written by Christina Rossetti
Read 1977 times on Poetry Connection.
I never said I loved you, John:
Why will you tease me day by day,
And wax a weariness to think upon
With always "do" and "pray"?
You Know I never loved you, John;
No fault of mine made me your toast:
Why will you haunt me with a face as... (Read full poem)
21. TO HIS SWEET SAVIOUR - written by Robert Herrick
Read 339 times on Poetry Connection.
Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep;
And Time seems then not for to fly, but creep;
Slowly her chariot drives, as if that she
Had broke her wheel, or crack'd her axletree.
Just so it is with me, who list'ning, pray
The winds to blow... (Read full poem)
22. You Are Old, Father William - written by Lewis Carroll
From Alice in Wonderland.
Read 4198 times on Poetry Connection.
"You are old, Father william," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might... (Read full poem)
23. The Wedding Ring - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 1167 times on Poetry Connection.
I pawned my sick wife's wedding ring,
To drink and make myself a beast.
I got the most that it would bring,
Of golden coins the very least.
With stealth into her room I crept
And stole it from her as she slept.
I do not think that she will know,
As... (Read full poem)
24. Another - written by Robert Herrick
Read 373 times on Poetry Connection.
HERE a pretty baby lies
Sung asleep with lullabies:
Pray be silent and not stir
Th' easy earth that covers her. (Read full poem)
25. UPON A CHILD - written by Robert Herrick
Read 415 times on Poetry Connection.
Here a pretty baby lies
Sung asleep with lullabies;
Pray be silent, and not stir
Th' easy earth that covers her. (Read full poem)
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