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The Days Of Our Youth

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

These are the days of our youth, our days of glory and honour.
Pleasure begotten of strength is ours, the sword in our hand.
Wisdom bends to our will, we lead captivity captive,
Kings of our lives and love, receiving gifts from men.

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Pauline Pavlovna

© Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 Ah! your heart said that?
You trust your heart, then! 'T is a serious risk!-
How is it you and others wear no mask?
 HE.

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Lines To A Friend Visiting America

© George Meredith

Now farewell to you! you are
One of my dearest, whom I trust:
Now follow you the Western star,
And cast the old world off as dust.

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The Borough. Letter X: Clubs And Social Meetings

© George Crabbe

  Next is the Club, where to their friends in town
Our country neighbours once a month come down;
We term it Free-and-Easy, and yet we
Find it no easy matter to be free:
E'en in our small assembly, friends among,
Are minds perverse, there's something will be

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Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto I

© Samuel Butler

But she, who well enough knew what
(Before he spoke) he would be at,
Pretended not to apprehend
The mystery of what he mean'd;.
And therefore wish'd him to expound
His dark expressions, less profound.

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The Columbiad: Book IV

© Joel Barlow

Yet must we mark, the bondage of the mind
Spreads deeper glooms, and subj ugates mankind;
The zealots fierce, whom local creeds enrage,
In holy feuds perpetual combat wage,
Support all crimes by full indulgence given,
Usurp the power and wield the sword of heaven,

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Love Pure And Fervent

© William Cowper

Jealous, and with love o'erflowing,
God demands a fervent heart;
Grace and bounty still bestowing,
Calls us to a grateful part.

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Tale VI

© George Crabbe

need,
For habit told when all things should proceed;
Few their amusements, but when friends appear'd,
They with the world's distress their spirits

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An Inscription For Dog River

© Kenneth Slessor

OUR general was the greatest and bravest of generals.
For his deeds, look around you on this coast—
Here is his name cut next to Ashur-Bani-Pal's,
Nebuchadnezzar's and the Roman host;

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Persuasions to Enjoy

© Thomas Carew

If the quick spirits in your eye 

Now languish and anon must die; 

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Nathan The Wise - Act V

© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Here lies the money still, and no one finds
The dervis yet--he's probably got somewhere
Over a chess-board.  Play would often make
The man forget himself, and why not, me.
Patience--Ha! what's the matter.

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Afsked Fra Verden

© Johannes Carsten Hauch

Det er paa Tiden, bort jeg vandre maa, 

Den blege Død har lammet mine Kræfter, 

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The Vision Of Piers Plowman - Part 13

© William Langland

And I awaked therwith, witlees nerhande,

And as a freke that fey were, forth gan I walke

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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Knowledge. Book I.

© Matthew Prior

But, O! ere yet original man was made,
Ere the foundations of this earth were laid,
It was opponent to our search ordain'd,
That joy still sought should never be attain'd:
This sad experience cites me to reveal,
And what I dictate is from what I feel.

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To an ingenious young Gentleman, on his dedicating a Poem to the Author.

© Mather Byles

To you, dear Youth, whom all the Muses own,

And great Apollo speaks his darling Son,

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A Thought or Two on Reading Pomfret's

© James Henry Leigh Hunt

I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring,
A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing,
Not much a verse, and poem none at all,
Yet, as they say, extremely natural.

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Dionysus

© Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev)

Somewhere, suspended in facetless space,
the vine is spiralling, shown in the distance, with loosened hair:
the farther the eye is, the quicker, the faster it is moving,
as if all this length is bestowing on it the result
and the encouraging memory of the way, done and forgotten for good.

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Satyr IX. The State Of Love Imitated Fm An Elegy Of Mons:r Desportes

© Thomas Parnell

Hence lett us hence with Just abhorrence go
for ill their happyness these mortalls know
Who slight the mighty favours I bestow

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Olympus

© Richard Monckton Milnes

With no sharp--sided peak or sudden cone,
Thou risest o'er the blank Thessalian plain,
But in the semblance of a rounded throne,
Meet for a monarch and his noble train

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Granny

© James Whitcomb Riley

Granny's come to our house,

  And ho! my lawzy-daisy!