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The Kalevala - Rune X

© Elias Lönnrot

ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO.


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Polly

© William Brighty Rands

Brown eyes,
  Straight nose;
  Dirt pies,
  Rumpled clothes;

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Nothing Special

© Zbigniew Herbert

nothing special
boards paint
nails paste
paper string

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Aurora Leigh: Book Two

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


  I pulled the branches down
To choose from.

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To the Earl of Warwick, On the Death of Mr. Addison

© Thomas Tickell

.  If, dumb too long, the drooping Muse hath stay'd,

 And left her debt to Addison unpaid;

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The Canterbury Tales; PROLOGUE

© Geoffrey Chaucer

  Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,

  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

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Hope

© William Cowper

Ask what is human life -- the sage replies,

With disappointment lowering in his eyes,

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Battle Of Hastings - II

© Thomas Chatterton

OH Truth! immortal daughter of the skies,

Too lyttle known to wryters of these daies,

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David And Goliath. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Great Lord of all things! Power divine!
Breathe on this erring heart of mine
  Thy grace serene and pure:
Defend my frail, my erring youth,
And teach me this important truth--
  The humble are secure!

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The Kalevala - Rune XLIX

© Elias Lönnrot

RESTORATION OF THE SUN AND MOON.


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The Heroic Enthusiasts - Part The First =Third Dialogue.=

© Giordano Bruno

CIC. I do not believe it is always like that, Tansillo; because,
sometimes, notwithstanding that we discover the spirit to be vicious, we
remain heated and entangled; so that, although reason perceives the evil
and unworthiness of such a love, it yet has not power to alienate the
disordered appetite. In this disposition, I believe, was the Nolano when
he said:

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The Revolt Of Islam: Canto I-XII

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is no danger to a man, that knows
What life and death is: there's not any law
Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawful
That he should stoop to any other law.
-Chapman.

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June On The Merrimac

© John Greenleaf Whittier

O dwellers in the stately towns,
What come ye out to see?
This common earth, this common sky,
This water flowing free?

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The Cloud

© Charles Harpur

“And oh!” she said, “that by some act of grace
’Twere mine to succour yon fierce-toiling race,
To give the hungry meat, the thirsty drink—
The thought of good is very sweet to think.”

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The Vision Of The Maid Of Orleans - The Third Book

© Robert Southey

The Maiden, musing on the Warrior's words,

  Turn'd from the Hall of Glory. Now they reach'd

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Astraea: The Balance Of Illusions

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dear to his age were memories such as these,
Leaves of his June in life's autumnal breeze;
Such were the tales that won my boyish ear,
Told in low tones that evening loves to hear.

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The Adirondacs

© Ralph Waldo Emerson


Wise and polite,--and if I drew
Their several portraits, you would own
Chaucer had no such worthy crew,
Nor Boccace in Decameron.

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In Response

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

SUCH kindness! the scowl of a cynic would soften,
His pulse beat its way to some eloquent words,
Alas! my poor accents have echoed too often,
Like that Pinafore music you've some of you heard.

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Independence

© Charles Churchill

Happy the bard (though few such bards we find)

Who, 'bove controlment, dares to speak his mind;