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A mademoiselle Louise B. (II)
© Victor Marie Hugo
L'année en s'enfuyant par l'année est suivie.
Encore une qui meurt ! encore un pas du temps ;
Encore une limite atteinte dans la vie !
Encore un sombre hiver jeté sur nos printemps !
Adrift: A Brisbane River Reverie
© George Essex Evans
As, like a creeping snake, with curve and sweep
The languid current steals past mead and scar,
To the dark mangrove fringing on the deep
Abreast the bar.
An Unwritten Tragedy
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream!
Love is a running stream, whose waters flow
Upon the earth, and who would drink thereof
Must bend him earthwards. There was such an one
Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss
© Thomas Nashe
Adieu, farewell earth's bliss,
This world uncertain is;
Fond are life's lustful joys,
Death proves them all but toys,
A Nocturne
© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The Moon has gone to her rest,
A full hour ago.
The Pleiads have found a nest
In the waves below.
A Visit From Wisdom
© Khalil Gibran
In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stood
By my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender mother
And wiped away my tears, and said : "I have heard
The cry of your spirit and I am come to comfort it.
Open your heart to me and I shall fill it with light.
Ask of me and I shall show you the way of truth."
A Letter of Advice
© Winthrop Mackworth Praed
You tell me you're promised a lover,
My own Araminta, next week;
Abraham Lincoln Is My Name
© Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is my name
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both hast and speed
and left it here for fools to read
A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - February
© George MacDonald
1.
I TO myself have neither power nor worth,
A Benediction
© Swami Vivekananda
The mother's heart, the hero's will,
The sweetness of the southern breeze,
An Easter Flower Gift
© John Greenleaf Whittier
O dearest bloom the seasons know,
Flowers of the Resurrection blow,
Our hope and faith restore;
And through the bitterness of death
And loss and sorrow, breathe a breath
Of life forevermore!
Angelica The Doorkeeper
© Anonymous
Angelica's their doorkeeper
She's wound the sun round her head
She's tied the moon round her waist
A Ballade Of Home
© Enid Derham
Princes and lords of high degree,
Smile, and we fling you scorn for scorn,
In hope and faith and memory
I love the land where I was born.
Afterwards
© Dante Gabriel Rossetti
SHE opened her moist crimson lips to sing;
And from her throat that is so white and full
An Intercepted Valentine
© Carolyn Wells
Little Bo-Peep, will you be mine?
I want you for my Valentine.
A Poets Eightieth Birthday
© Alfred Austin
``He dieth young whom the Gods love,'' was said
By Greek Menander; nor alone by One
