[ { "title": "Monday Night May 11th 1846 / Domestic Peace", "author": "Anne Bronte", "lines": [ "Why should such gloomy silence reign;", "And why is all the house so drear,", "When neither danger, sickness, pain,", "Nor death, nor want have entered here?", "We are as many as we were", "That other night, when all were gay,", "And full of hope, and free from care;", "Yet, is there something gone away.", "", "The moon without as pure and calm", "Is shining as that night she shone;", "but now, to us she brings no balm,", "For something from our hearts is gone.", "", "Something whose absence leaves a void,", "A cheerless want in every heart.", "Each feels the bliss of all destroyed", "And mourns the change - but each apart.", "", "The fire is burning in the grate", "As redly as it used to burn,", "But still the hearth is desolate", "Till Mirth and Love with Peace return.", "", "'Twas Peace that flowed from heart to heart", "With looks and smiles that spoke of Heaven,", "And gave us language to impart", "The blissful thoughts itself had given.", "", "Sweet child of Heaven, and joy of earth!", "O, when will Man thy value learn?", "We rudely drove thee from our hearth,", "And vainly sigh for thy return." ], "linecount": "28" }, { "title": "I many times thought Peace had come", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "I many times thought Peace had come", "When Peace was far away --", "As Wrecked Men -- deem they sight the Land --", "At Centre of the Sea --", "", "And struggle slacker -- but to prove", "As hopelessly as I --", "How many the fictitious Shores --", "Before the Harbor be --" ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "If pain for peace prepares", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "If pain for peace prepares", "Lo, what \"Augustan\" years", "Our feet await!", "", "If springs from winter rise,", "Can the Anemones", "Be reckoned up?", "", "If night stands fast -- then noon", "To gird us for the sun,", "What gaze!", "", "When from a thousand skies", "On our developed eyes", "Noons blaze!" ], "linecount": "12" }, { "title": "Oh Future! thou secreted peace", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Oh Future! thou secreted peace", "Or subterranean woe --", "Is there no wandering route of grace", "That leads away from thee --", "No circuit sage of all the course", "Descried by cunning Men", "To balk thee of thy sacred Prey --", "Advancing to thy Den --" ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "A Tooth upon Our Peace", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "A Tooth upon Our Peace", "The Peace cannot deface --", "Then Wherefore be the Tooth?", "To vitalize the Grace --", "", "The Heaven hath a Hell --", "Itself to signalize --", "And every sign before the Place", "Is Gilt with Sacrifice --" ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "Peace is a fiction of our Faith --", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "Peace is a fiction of our Faith --", "The Bells a Winter Night", "Bearing the Neighbor out of Sound", "That never did alight." ], "linecount": "4" }, { "title": "A chilly Peace infests the Grass", "author": "Emily Dickinson", "lines": [ "A chilly Peace infests the Grass", "The Sun respectful lies --", "Not any Trance of industry", "These shadows scrutinize --", "", "Whose Allies go no more astray", "For service or for Glee --", "But all mankind deliver here", "From whatsoever sea --" ], "linecount": "8" }, { "title": "Peace", "author": "George Herbert", "lines": [ "Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,", "Let me once know.", "I sought thee in a secret cave,", "And ask'd, if Peace were there,", "A hollow wind did seem to answer, No:", "Go seek elsewhere.", "", "I did; and going did a rainbow note:", "Surely, thought I,", "This is the lace of Peace's coat:", "I will search out the matter.", "But while I looked the clouds immediately", "Did break and scatter.", "", "Then went I to a garden and did spy", "A gallant flower,", "The crown-imperial: Sure, said I,", "Peace at the root must dwell.", "But when I digged, I saw a worm devour", "What showed so well.", "", "At length I met a rev'rend good old man;", "Whom when for Peace", "", "I did demand, he thus began:", "There was a Prince of old", "At Salem dwelt, who lived with good increase", "Of flock and fold.", "", "He sweetly lived; yet sweetness did not save", "His life from foes.", "But after death out of his grave", "There sprang twelve stalks of wheat;", "Which many wond'ring at, got some of those", "To plant and set.", "", "It prospered strangely, and did soon disperse", "Through all the earth:", "For they that taste it do rehearse", "That virtue lies therein;", "A secret virtue, bringing peace and mirth", "By flight of sin.", "", "Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,", "And grows for you;", "Make bread of it: and that repose", "And peace, which ev'ry where", "With so much earnestness you do pursue,", "Is only there." ], "linecount": "42" }, { "title": "Peace", "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "lines": [ "When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,", "Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?", "When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I'll not play hypocrite", "To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but", "That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows", "Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?", "", "O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu", "Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,", "That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house", "He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,", " He comes to brood and sit." ], "linecount": "11" }, { "title": "Peace", "author": "Henry Vaughan", "lines": [ "1 My Soul, there is a country", "2 Afar beyond the stars,", "3 Where stands a winged sentry", "4 All skillful in the wars;", "5 There, above noise and danger", "6 Sweet Peace sits, crown'd with smiles,", "7 And One born in a manger", "8 Commands the beauteous files.", "9 He is thy gracious friend", "10 And (O my Soul awake!)", "11 Did in pure love descend,", "12 To die here for thy sake.", "13 If thou canst get but thither,", "14 There grows the flow'r of peace,", "15 The rose that cannot wither,", "16 Thy fortress, and thy ease.", "17 Leave then thy foolish ranges,", "18 For none can thee secure,", "19 But One, who never changes,", "20 Thy God, thy life, thy cure." ], "linecount": "20" }, { "title": "The Peace-Pipe", "author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "lines": [ "On the Mountains of the Prairie,", "On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,", "Gitche Manito, the mighty,", "He the Master of Life, descending,", "On the red crags of the quarry", "Stood erect, and called the nations,", "Called the tribes of men together.", "From his footprints flowed a river,", "Leaped into the light of morning,", "O'er the precipice plunging downward", "Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet.", "And the Spirit, stooping earthward,", "With his finger on the meadow", "Traced a winding pathway for it,", "Saying to it, \"Run in this way!\"", "From the red stone of the quarry", "With his hand he broke a fragment,", "Moulded it into a pipe-head,", "Shaped and fashioned it with figures;", "From the margin of the river", "Took a long reed for a pipe-stem,", "With its dark green leaves upon it;", "Filled the pipe with bark of willow,", "With the bark of the red willow;", "Breathed upon the neighboring forest,", "Made its great boughs chafe together,", "Till in flame they burst and kindled;", "And erect upon the mountains,", "Gitche Manito, the mighty,", "Smoked the calumet, the Peace-Pipe,", "As a signal to the nations.", "And the smoke rose slowly, slowly,", "Through the tranquil air of morning,", "First a single line of darkness,", "Then a denser, bluer vapor,", "Then a snow-white cloud unfolding,", "Like the tree-tops of the forest,", "Ever rising, rising, rising,", "Till it touched the top of heaven,", "Till it broke against the heaven,", "And rolled outward all around it.", "From the Vale of Tawasentha,", "From the Valley of Wyoming,", "From the groves of Tuscaloosa,", "From the far-off Rocky Mountains,", "From the Northern lakes and rivers", "All the tribes beheld the signal,", "Saw the distant smoke ascending,", "The Pukwana of the Peace-Pipe.", "And the Prophets of the nations", "Said: \"Behold it, the Pukwana!", "By the signal of the Peace-Pipe,", "Bending like a wand of willow,", "Waving like a hand that beckons,", "Gitche Manito, the mighty,", "Calls the tribes of men together,", "Calls the warriors to his council!\"", "Down the rivers, o'er the prairies,", "Came the warriors of the nations,", "Came the Delawares and Mohawks,", "Came the Choctaws and Camanches,", "Came the Shoshonies and Blackfeet,", "Came the Pawnees and Omahas,", "Came the Mandans and Dacotahs,", "Came the Hurons and Ojibways,", "All the warriors drawn together", "By the signal of the Peace-Pipe,", "To the Mountains of the Prairie,", "To the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,", "And they stood there on the meadow,", "With their weapons and their war-gear,", "Painted like the leaves of Autumn,", "Painted like the sky of morning,", "Wildly glaring at each other;", "In their faces stem defiance,", "In their hearts the feuds of ages,", "The hereditary hatred,", "The ancestral thirst of vengeance.", "Gitche Manito, the mighty,", "The creator of the nations,", "Looked upon them with compassion,", "With paternal love and pity;", "Looked upon their wrath and wrangling", "But as quarrels among children,", "But as feuds and fights of children!", "Over them he stretched his right hand,", "To subdue their stubborn natures,", "To allay their thirst and fever,", "By the shadow of his right hand;", "Spake to them with voice majestic", "As the sound of far-off waters,", "Falling into deep abysses,", "Warning, chiding, spake in this wise :", "\"O my children! my poor children!", "Listen to the words of wisdom,", "Listen to the words of warning,", "From the lips of the Great Spirit,", "From the Master of Life, who made you!", "\"I have given you lands to hunt in,", "I have given you streams to fish in,", "I have given you bear and bison,", "I have given you roe and reindeer,", "I have given you brant and beaver,", "Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl,", "Filled the rivers full of fishes:", "Why then are you not contented?", "Why then will you hunt each other?", "\"I am weary of your quarrels,", "Weary of your wars and bloodshed,", "Weary of your prayers for vengeance,", "Of your wranglings and dissensions;", "All your strength is in your union,", "All your danger is in discord;", "Therefore be at peace henceforward,", "And as brothers live together.", "\"I will send a Prophet to you,", "A Deliverer of the nations,", "Who shall guide you and shall teach you,", "Who shall toil and suffer with you.", "If you listen to his counsels,", "You will multiply and prosper;", "If his warnings pass unheeded,", "You will fade away and perish!", "\"Bathe now in the stream before you,", "Wash the war-paint from your faces,", "Wash the blood-stains from your fingers,", "Bury your war-clubs and your weapons,", "Break the red stone from this quarry,", "Mould and make it into Peace-Pipes,", "Take the reeds that grow beside you,", "Deck them with your brightest feathers,", "Smoke the calumet together,", "And as brothers live henceforward!\"", "Then upon the ground the warriors", "Threw their cloaks and shirts of deer-skin,", "Threw their weapons and their war-gear,", "Leaped into the rushing river,", "Washed the war-paint from their faces.", "Clear above them flowed the water,", "Clear and limpid from the footprints", "Of the Master of Life descending;", "Dark below them flowed the water,", "Soiled and stained with streaks of crimson,", "As if blood were mingled with it!", "From the river came the warriors,", "Clean and washed from all their war-paint;", "On the banks their clubs they buried,", "Buried all their warlike weapons.", "Gitche Manito, the mighty,", "The Great Spirit, the creator,", "Smiled upon his helpless children!", "And in silence all the warriors", "Broke the red stone of the quarry,", "Smoothed and formed it into Peace-Pipes,", "Broke the long reeds by the river,", "Decked them with their brightest feathers,", "And departed each one homeward,", "While the Master of Life, ascending,", "Through the opening of cloud-curtains,", "Through the doorways of the heaven,", "Vanished from before their faces,", "In the smoke that rolled around him,", "The Pukwana of the Peace-Pipe!" ], "linecount": "163" }, { "title": "314. Song—There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame", "author": "Robert Burns", "lines": [ "BY yon Castle wa’, at the close of the day,", "I heard a man sing, tho’ his head it was grey:", "And as he was singing, the tears doon came,—", "There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.", "", "", "The Church is in ruins, the State is in jars,", "Delusions, oppressions, and murderous wars,", "We dare na weel say’t, but we ken wha’s to blame,—", "There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.", "", "", "My seven braw sons for Jamie drew sword,", "But now I greet round their green beds in the yerd;", "It brak the sweet heart o’ my faithful and dame,—", "There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame.", "", "", "Now life is a burden that bows me down,", "Sin’ I tint my bairns, and he tint his crown;", "But till my last moments my words are the same,—", "There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame." ], "linecount": "16" }, { "title": "PEACE NOT PERMANENT", "author": "Robert Herrick", "lines": [ "Great cities seldom rest; if there be none", "T' invade from far, they'll find worse foes at home." ], "linecount": "2" }, { "title": "I. Peace", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "lines": [ "Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,", "And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,", "With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,", "To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,", "Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,", "Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,", "And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,", "And all the little emptiness of love!", "", "Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,", "Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,", "Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;", "Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there", "But only agony, and that has ending;", "And the worst friend and enemy is but Death." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Peace", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "lines": [ "Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour,", "And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,", "With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,", "To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,", "Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,", "Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,", "And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,", "And all the little emptiness of love!", "", "Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,", "Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,", "Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;", "Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there", "But only agony, and that has ending;", "And the worst friend and enemy is but Death." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "1914 I: Peace", "author": "Rupert Brooke", "lines": [ "Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour,", "And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,", "With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,", "To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,", "Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,", "Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,", "And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,", "And all the little emptiness of love!", "", "Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,", "Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,", "Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;", "Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there", "But only agony, and that has ending;", "And the worst friend and enemy is but Death." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "Part In Peace: Is Day Before Us?", "author": "Sarah Flower Adams", "lines": [ "Part in peace: is day before us?", "Praise His Name for life and light;", "Are the shadows lengthening o’er us?", "Bless His care Who guards the night.", "", "Part in peace: with deep thanksgiving,", "Rendering, as we homeward tread,", "Gracious service to the living,", "Tranquil memory to the dead.", "", "Part in peace: such are the praises", "God our Maker loveth best;", "Such the worship that upraises", "Human hearts to heavenly rest." ], "linecount": "12" }, { "title": "Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace", "author": "Sir Philip Sidney", "lines": [ "Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,", "The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,", "The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,", "Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;", "With shield of proof shield me from out the press", "Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw!", "O make in me those civil wars to cease!—", "I will good tribute pay if thou do so.", "Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,", "A chamber deaf of noise and blind of light,", "A rosy garland, and a weary head;", "And if these things, as being thine in right,", "Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,", "Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "I Find No Peace", "author": "Sir Thomas Wyatt", "lines": [ "I find no peace, and all my war is done.", "I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.", "I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise;", "And nought I have, and all the world I season.", "That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison", "And holdeth me not--yet can I scape no wise--", "Nor letteth me live nor die at my device,", "And yet of death it giveth me occasion.", "Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain.", "I desire to perish, and yet I ask health.", "I love another, and thus I hate myself.", "I feed me in sorrow and laugh in all my pain;", "Likewise displeaseth me both life and death,", "And my delight is causer of this strife." ], "linecount": "14" }, { "title": "O Sun of Real Peace.", "author": "Walt Whitman", "lines": [ "O SUN of real peace! O hastening light!", "O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for!", "O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height—and you too, O my", " Ideal,", " will surely ascend!", "O so amazing and broad—up there resplendent, darting and burning!", "O vision prophetic, stagger’d with weight of light! with pouring glories!", "O lips of my soul, already becoming powerless!", "O ample and grand Presidentiads! Now the war, the war is over!", "New history! new heroes! I project you!", "Visions of poets! only you really last! sweep on! sweep on!", "O heights too swift and dizzy yet!", "O purged and luminous! you threaten me more than I can stand!", "(I must not venture—the ground under my feet menaces me—it will not support me:", "O future too immense,)—O present, I return, while yet I may, to you." ], "linecount": "15" }, { "title": "Joy and Peace in Believing", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "Sometimes a light surprises", "The Christian while he sings;", "It is the Lord who rises", "With healing on His wings;", "When comforts are declining,", "He grants the soul again", "A season of clear shining,", "To cheer it after rain.", "", "In holy contemplation", "We sweetly then pursue", "The theme of God's salvation,", "And find it ever new;", "Set free from present sorrow,", "We cheerfully can say,", "E'en let the unknown to-morrow", "Bring with it what it may!", "", "It can bring with it nothing,", "But He will bear us through;", "Who gives the lilies clothing,", "Will clothe His people too;", "Beneath the spreading heavens", "No creature but is fed;", "And He who feeds the ravens", "Will give His children bread.", "", "Though vine nor fig tree neither", "Their wonted fruit shall bear,", "Though all the field should wither,", "Nor flocks nor herds be there:", "Yet God the same abiding,", "His praise shall tune my voice;", "For, while in Him confiding,", "I cannot but rejoice." ], "linecount": "32" }, { "title": "Peace after a Storm", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "When darkness long has veil'd my mind,", "And smiling day once more appears,", "Then, my Redeemer, then I find", "The folly of my doubts and fears.", "", "Straight I upbraid my wandering heart,", "And blush that I should ever be", "Thus prone to act so base a part,", "Or harbour one hard thought of Thee!", "", "Oh! let me then at length be taught", "What I am still so slow to learn,", "That God is love, and changes not,", "Nor knows the shadow of a turn.", "", "Sweet truth, and easy to repeat!", "But when my faith is sharply tried,", "I find myself a learner yet,", "Unskilful, weak, and apt to slide.", "", "But, O my Lord, one look from Thee", "Subdues the disobedient will,", "Drives doubt and discontent away,", "And Thy rebellious worm is still.", "", "Thou art as ready to forgive", "As I am ready to repine;", "Thou, therefore, all the praise receive;", "Be shame and self-abhorrence mine." ], "linecount": "24" }, { "title": "Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord Send Peace", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "(Judges, vi.25)", "", "Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd", "To satisfy the law's demand;", "By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd,", "Before the Father's face I stand.", "", "To reconcile offending man,", "Make Justice drop her angry rod;", "What creature could have form'd the plan,", "Or who fulfil it but a God?", "", "No drop remains of all the curse,", "For wretches who deserved the whole;", "No arrows dipt in wrath to pierce", "The guilty, but returning soul.", "", "Peace by such means so dearly bought,", "What rebel could have hoped to see?", "Peace by his injured Sovereign wrought,", "His Sovereign fasten'd to a tree.", "", "Now, Lord, Thy feeble worm prepare!", "For strife with earth and hell begins;", "Conform and gird me for the war;", "They hate the soul that hates his sins.", "", "Let them in horrid league agree!", "They may assault, they may distress;", "But cannot quench Thy love to me,", "Nor rob me of the Lord my peace." ], "linecount": "25" }, { "title": "The Future Peace and Glory of the Church", "author": "William Cowper", "lines": [ "(Isaiah, ix. 15-20)", "", "Hear what God the Lord hath spoken,", "\"O my people, faint and few,", "Comfortless, afflicted, broken,", "Fair abodes I build for you.", "Thorns of heartfelt tribulation", "Shall no more perplex your ways;", "You shall name your walls, Salvation,", "And your gates shall all be Praise.", "", "\"There, like streams that feed the garden,", "Pleasures without end shall flow,", "For the Lord, your faith rewarding,", "All His bounty shall bestow;", "Still in undisturb'd possession", "Peace and righteousness shall reign;", "Never shall you feel oppression,", "Hear the voice of war again.", "", "\"Ye no more your suns descending,", "Waning moons no more shall see;", "But your griefs forever ending,", "Find eternal noon in me:", "God shall rise, and shining o'er ye,", "Change to day the gloom of night;", "He, the Lord, shall be your glory,", "God your everlasting light.\"" ], "linecount": "25" } ]