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A Young Soldier On Service
© Confucius
To the top of that tree-clad hill I go,
And towards my father I gaze,
Army Hymn
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
O LORD of Hosts! Almighty King!
Behold the sacrifice we bring
To every arm thy strength impart,
Thy spirit shed through every heart!
A Muff
© Jessie Pope
My muscles are tough,
I'm not sickly or pale;
But that shop was enough
To make Hercules quail.
The ladies were snatching and gripping,
Each using her arm like a flail.
A Sunset
© Francis Thompson
Oh gaze ye on the firmament! a hundred clouds in motion,
Up-piled in the immense sublime beneath the winds' commotion,
Their unimagined shapes accord:
Under their waves at intervals flames a pale levin through,
As if some giant of the air amid the vapours drew
A sudden elemental sword.
A Winter Evening
© Alexander Pushkin
Sable clouds by tempest driven,
Snowflakes whirling in the gales,
Address, Spoken At The Opening Of Drury-Lane Theatre. Saturday, October 10, 1812
© George Gordon Byron
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,
Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of pride
In one short hour beheld the blazing fane,
Apollo sink, and Shakspeare cease to reign.
A Lost Comrade
© Margaret Widdemer
YOU live as the world would have you do
Only the sleeping soul of you
Lies unwakened by wind or dew.
A Sweet Pastoral
© Nicholas Breton
Good Muse, rock me asleep
With some sweet harmony;
The weary eye is not to keep
Thy wary company.
" As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest"
© William Wordsworth
As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest
While from the Papal Unity there came,
Away Down South In The Land of Traitors
© Anonymous
Away down South in the land of traitors,
Rattlesnakes and alligators,
A Wrangdillion
© James Whitcomb Riley
Dexery-tethery! down in the dike,
Under the ooze and the slime,
A Girls Day Dream And Its Fulfilment
© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Ah! mother it once sufficed thy child
To cherish a bird or flowret wild;
To see the moonbeams the waters kiss,
Was enough to fill her heart with bliss;
Or oer the bright woodland stream to bow,
But these things may not suffice her now.
Away, Away, Ye Notes Of Woe!
© George Gordon Byron
Away, away, ye notes of woe!
Be silent, thou once soothing strain,
Or I must flee from hence--for, oh!
I dare not trust those sounds again.
A Dream Of England
© Alfred Austin
I had a dream of England. Wild and weird,
The billows ravened round her, and the wrack,
A Lost Chord
© Adelaide Anne Procter
SEATED one day at the Organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.
An October Sunset
© Archibald Lampman
One moment, the slim cloudflakes seem to lean
With their sad sunward faces aureoled,
Age And Song (to Barry Cornwall)
© Algernon Charles Swinburne
In vain men tell us time can alter
Old loves or make old memories falter,
That with the old year the old year's life closes.
The old dew still falls on the old sweet flowers,
The old sun revives the new-fledged hours,
The old summer rears the new-born roses.
A Second Childhood
© Gilbert Keith Chesterton
When all my days are ending
And I have no song to sing,
I think I shall not be too old
To stare at everything;
As I stared once at a nursery door
Or a tall tree and a swing.
Another Bit And An Offer
© Ezra Pound
I see by the morning papers
That America's sturdy sons
Have started a investigation
Of the making of guns.
