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My Friend, The Parking Lot Attendant

© Charles Bukowski

he's a dandy
small moustache
usually sucking on a cigar

Sunrise

© Emma Lazarus

Weep for the martyr! Strew his bier

With the last roses of the year;

Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude

Of Imputed Righteousness

© John Bunyan

Now, if thou wouldst inherit righteousness,

And so sanctification possess

The Disturber

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

Oh, what shall I do? I am wholly upset;

I am sure I 'll be jailed for a lunatic yet.

The Earth

© Jones Very

I would lie low, the ground on which men tread,

Swept by Thy spirit like the wind of heaven;

And Could You?

© Vladimir Mayakovsky

I suddenly smeared the weekday map

splashing paint from a glass;

Life Is A Dream - Act I

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

THIS TRANSLATION
INTO ENGLISH IMITATIVE VERSE
OF
CALDERON'S MOST FAMOUS DRAMA,

Belshazzar. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Persons of the Drama :--
Belshazzar, King of Babylon.
Nitocris, the Queen-Mother.
Courtiers, Astrologers, Parasites.
Daniel, the Jewish Prophet.
Captive Jews, &c. &c.

The Marshes of Glynn

© Sidney Lanier

Beautiful glooms, soft dusks in the noon-day fire, --
Wildwood privacies, closets of lone desire,
Chamber from chamber parted with wavering arras of leaves, --
Cells for the passionate pleasure of prayer to the soul that grieves,
Pure with a sense of the passing of saints through the wood,
Cool for the dutiful weighing of ill with good; --

Fragments - Lines 0425 - 0428

© Theognis of Megara

Not to be born is the best of all things for those who live on earth,
And not to gaze on the radiance of the keen-burning sun.
Once born, however, it is best to pass with all possible speed through Hades' gates
And to lie beneath a great heap of earth.

To A Lady

© Franklin Pierce Adams

Ah, Lady, if these verses glowed
Warmer than chill appreciation--
If they should lengthen to an "Ode
On Fascination--"

These Men

© Leon Gellert

These men know life know death a little more.
These men see paths and ends, and see
Beyond some swinging open door
Into eternity.

One-Man-One-Vote

© Henry Lawson

ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE! You hear the people shouting.
The walls of Mammon tremble ere they fall.
ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE! Is this a time for doubting?
The poets have been prophets after all.