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Of The Nature Of Things: Book II - Part 02 - Atomic Motions

© Lucretius

Now come: I will untangle for thy steps

Now by what motions the begetting bodies

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Spleen (III)

© Charles Baudelaire

Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,
Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,
Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,
S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes.

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Substratum

© Madison Julius Cawein

Hear you r o music in the creaks

  Made by the sallow grasshopper,

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Toujours Ce Souvenir M’Attendrit

© André Marie de Chénier

Toujours ce souvenir m'attendrit et me touche,

  Quand lui-même, appliquant la flûte sur ma bouche,

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Apart

© Madison Julius Cawein

While sunset burns and stars are few,
And roses scent the fading light,
And like a slim urn, dripping dew,
A spirit carries through the night,
  The pearl-pale moon hangs new,--
  I think of you, of you.

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On The Way To Kew

© William Ernest Henley

On the way to Kew,

By the river old and gray,

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Don't Tease The Lion

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

If you saw a lion

Not within a cage,

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Black Lizzie

© Henry Kendall

But let them pass! To right your wrong,
 Aspasia of the ardent South,
Your poet means to sing a song
 With some prolixity of mouth.

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Inconsiderate Hannah

© Harry Graham


Naughty little Hannah said
  She could make her grandma whistle,
So, that night, inside her bed
  Placed some nettles and a thistle.

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The Death Of Regret

© Thomas Hardy

I opened my shutter at sunrise,
  And looked at the hill hard by,
And I heartily grieved for the comrade
  Who wandered up there to die.

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The Chant Of The Cross-Bearing Child

© James Whitcomb Riley

I bear dis cross dis many a mile.
  O de cross-bearin' chile--
  De cross-bearin' chile!

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Song Of Love’s Coming

© Arthur Symons

Love comes unawares
(In my arms sighing).
Ah me, the many cares
Between his birth and dying!

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Long Life Not To Be Desired

© Sophocles


  WHO, loving life, hath sought

  To outrun the appointed span,

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Breitmann As An Uhlan. V. Breitmann In Biouvac.

© Charles Godfrey Leland

HE sits in bivouacke,
By fire, peneat' de drees;
A pottle of champagner
Held shently on his knees;

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The Nest

© Edith Nesbit

That was the skylark we heard

Singing so high,

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The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary

© Alessandro Manzoni

  O'er the hills of the country, a went climbing one day,
  In the stillness a Nazarene carpenter's bride,
  A visit, unseen, to the cottage to pay
  Of a happy old wife in first pregnancy's pride.

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On Being Oneself

© Piet Hein

If virtue
can't be mine alone
at least my faults
can be my own.

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Don Juan: Canto The Fourth

© George Gordon Byron

Nothing so difficult as a beginning

In poesy, unless perhaps the end;

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Sonnet 47: What, Have I thus Betray'd

© Sir Philip Sidney

What, have I thus betray'd my liberty?
Can those black beams such burning marks engrave In my free side? or am I born a slave,
Whose neck becomes such yoke of tyranny?

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Good-Bye My Fancy!

© Walt Whitman


blended into one;
Then if we die we die together, (yes,we'll remain one,)
If we go anywhere we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
May-be it is yourself now really ushering me