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© Edward Thomas

Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, and
We had seen nothing fairer than that land,
Though strange, and the untrodden snow that made
Wild of the tame, casting out all that was
Not wild and rustic and old; and we were glad.

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Coplas De Manrique (From The Spanish)

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O let the soul her slumbers break,
Let thought be quickened, and awake;
Awake to see
How soon this life is past and gone,
And death comes softly stealing on,
How silently!

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A Warning

© Heinrich Heine

You will print such books as these?
Then you're lost, my friend, that's certain.
If you wish for gold and honor,
Write more humbly—bend your knees!

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Le Courroux D’Un Amant

© André Marie de Chénier

Le courroux d'un amant n'est point inexorable.

  Ah! si tu la voyais, cette belle coupable,

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In An English Garden

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Beside the wall, the slim Laburnum grows
  And flings its golden flow'rs to every breeze.
  But e'en among such soothing sights as these,
  I pant and nurse my soul-devouring woes.
  Of all the longings that our hearts wot of,
  There is no hunger like the want of love!

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Russia, O My Russia, Hail!

© Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

Russia, O my Russia, hail!

Steeds as tempests flying,

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Shakespeare

© William Lisle Bowles

O sovereign Master! who with lonely state 
  Dost rule as in some isle's enchanted land,
  On whom soft airs and shadowy spirits wait,
  Whilst scenes of "faerie" bloom at thy command,
  On thy wild shores forgetful could I lie,
  And list, till earth dissolved to thy sweet minstrelsy!

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The Mystic’s Christmas

© John Greenleaf Whittier

"All hail!" the bells of Christmas rang,
"All hail!" the monks at Christmas sang,
The merry monks who kept with cheer
The gladdest day of all their year.

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On The Hills

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Drinking wide, sunny wind,
Hand within hand,
We look from hill to hill
Of our own land.

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Senlin:A Biography: Pt 03 His Cloudy Destiny

© Conrad Aiken

Yet, we would say, this is no shore at all,
But a small bright room with lamplight on the wall;
And the familiar chair
Where Senlin sat, with lamplight on his hair.

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A Ballad Of Baseball Burdens

© Franklin Pierce Adams

Ah, Fans, let not the Quarry but the Chase
Be that to which most fondly we aspire!
For us not Stake, but Game; not Goal, but Race -

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Origin Of The Liquor Dealer

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler


And he clasps the hands of the devil who stands
Bowing before his face.
And he says, "Dear friend, will you please to send
A lad to show me my place?"

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Mater Amabilis

© Emma Lazarus

Down the goldenest of streams,
Tide of dreams,
The fair cradled man-child drifts;
Sways with cadenced motion slow,
To and fro,
As the mother-foot poised lightly, falls and lifts.

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The Affection Of The Wives On The Joo

© Confucius

Along the raised banks of the Joo,
  To hew slim stem and branch I wrought,
  My lord away, my husband true,
  Like hunger-pang my troubled thought!

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Vox Ecclesiae, Vox Christi

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Not 'neath the altar only,—yet, in sooth,

There more than elsewhere,—is the cry, “How long?”

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A Prayer

© Robert Laurence Binyon

O Thou who seekest me
Through the day's heartless hurry and uproar,
Who followest me to my thought's farthest shore--
Nay, who art gone before--

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Angel Faces

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I.
I SHALL not paint them. God them sees, and I:
No other can, nor need. They have no form,
I may not close with human kisses warm

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The Shadow Of The Cross

© John McCrae

From the attic poor to the palace grand,
The King and the beggar went hand in hand.

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They Don't

© Edgar Albert Guest

Life has its ups and downs,
Its fair and cloudy weather,
But this you'll find, my friend,
They never come together.

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The Godhead

© Sri Aurobindo

I sat behind the dance of Danger's hooves
In the shouting street that seemed a futurist's whim,
And suddenly felt, exceeding Nature's grooves,
In me, enveloping me the body of Him.