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Reuben's Children

© Dorothy Parker

Accursed from their birth they be
Who seek to find monogamy,
Pursuing it from bed to bed-
I think they would be better dead.

Toys And Life

© Edgar Albert Guest

You can learn a lot from boys

By the way they use their toys;

Story-Time

© Edgar Albert Guest

"TELL us a story," comes the cry

From little lips when nights are cold,

Miners

© Wilfred Owen

There was a whispering in my hearth,
A sigh of the coal.
Grown wistful of a former earth
It might recall.

Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1.

© William Cowper

Adam, arise, since I do thee impart
A spirit warm from my benignant breath:
Arise, arise, first man,
And joyous let the world
Embrace its living miniature in thee!

The Vagabonds

© Bliss William Carman

We go unheeded as the stream
That wanders by the hill-wood side,
Till the great marshes take his hand
And lead him to the roving tide.

Since We Must Die

© Alfred Austin

Though we must die, I would not die

When fields are brown and bleak,

Dum Capitolium Scandet

© Ezra Pound

How many will come after me

singing as well as I sing, none better;

from

© William Carlos Williams

Of asphodel, that greeny flower,

like a buttercup

To my Dear Children.

© Anne Bradstreet

This Book by Any yet vnread,

I leaue for yov when I am dead,

At The End Of The Day -- English Translation

© Rabindranath Tagore

I know, this day will come to an end

At the end of the day

Bus East

© Jack Kerouac

Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend
5
years ago - other furies other losses -

Time And The Earth

Time and the Earth -

The old Father and Mother -

The Borough. Letter VIII: Trades

share -
'Tis small: we boast not these rich subjects here,
Who hazard thrice ten thousand pounds a-year;
We've no huge buildings, where incessant noise
Is made by springs and spindles, girls and boys;
Where, 'mid such thundering sounds, the maiden's