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The Kalevala - Rune XX

© Elias Lönnrot

THE BREWING OF BEER.


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Witch Doctor

© Robert Hayden

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He dines alone surrounded by reflections 

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Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play

© Lord Byron

Dear Doctor, I have read your play,


Which is a good one in its way,

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With Antecedents

© Walt Whitman

I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews;
I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god;
I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without
  exception; 

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To John Donne

© Benjamin Jonson

Donne, the delight of Phoebus and each Muse


Who, to thy one, all other brains refuse;

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The Wanderer: A Vision: Canto III

© Richard Savage


Ye traytors, tyrants, fear his stinging lay!
Ye pow'rs unlov'd, unpity'd in decay!
But know, to you sweet-blossom'd Fame he brings,
Ye heroes, patriots, and paternal kings!

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Lancelot And Elaine

© Alfred Tennyson

How came the lily maid by that good shield
Of Lancelot, she that knew not even his name?
He left it with her, when he rode to tilt
For the great diamond in the diamond jousts,
Which Arthur had ordained, and by that name
Had named them, since a diamond was the prize.

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Hymn to Science

© Mark Akenside

But first with thy resistless light,
Disperse those phantoms from my sight,
Those mimic shades of thee;
The scholiast's learning, sophist's cant,
The visionary bigot's rant,
The monk's philosophy.

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A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body

© Andrew Marvell

SOUL

O who shall, from this dungeon, raise

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An Essay on Criticism: Part 3

© Alexander Pope

  Learn then what morals critics ought to show,
For 'tis but half a judge's task, to know.
'Tis not enough, taste, judgment, learning, join;
In all you speak, let truth and candour shine:
That not alone what to your sense is due,
All may allow; but seek your friendship too.

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Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto III

© Samuel Butler

What made thee, when they all were gone,
And none but thou and I alone,
To act the Devil, and forbear
To rid me of my hellish fear?

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To Marion

© George Gordon Byron

Marion! why that pensive brow?
What disgust to life hast thou?
Change that discontented air;
Frowns become not one so fair.

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I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater

© Mahmoud Darwish

I have a seat in the abandoned theater

in Beirut. I might forget, and I might recall

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A Phenomenal Fauna

© Carolyn Wells

THE REG'LAR LARK


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The Sonnet

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

Alone it stands in Poesy’s fair land,

 A temple by the muses set apart;

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A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar

© Robert Duncan

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The light foot hears you and the brightness begins
god-step at the margins of thought,
 quick adulterous tread at the heart. 

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

© Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
 The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
 And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

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The Reading Club

© Patricia Goedicke

Is dead serious about this one, having rehearsed it for two weeks
they bring it right into the Odd Fellows Meeting Hall.
Riding the backs of the Trojan Women,
In Euripides’ great wake they are swept up,

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Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

HANG out our banners on the stately tower
It dawns at last--the long-expected hour!
The steep is climbed, the star-lit summit won,
The builder's task, the artist's labor done;
Before the finished work the herald stands,
And asks the verdict of your lips and hands!