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Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience

© William Cowper

Lord, who hast suffer'd all for me,
My peace and pardon to procure,
The lighter cross I bear for Thee,
Help me with patience to endure.

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OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII (Entire)

© Alfred Tennyson

Thou wilt not leave us in the dust:
 Thou madest man, he knows not why,
 He thinks he was not made to die;
And thou hast made him: thou art just.

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A Life of Sabbaths Here Beneath

© Thomas Traherne

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A life of Sabbaths here beneath!

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Builders Of Ruins

© Alice Meynell

We build with strength and deep tower wall
That shall be shattered thus and thus.
And fair and great are court and hall,
But how fair-this is not for us,
Who know the lack that lurks in all.

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For My Sake.

© James Brunton Stephens

INASMUCH as ye gave ear unto the sighing

Of the least of these the children of my care, —

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Safe.

© Adelaide Crapsey

Force and bluster? Mighty threatenings?

Scorn I lightly, - Not for these.

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Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XXII. -- The Nun Of Nida

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the convent of Drontheim,
Alone in her chamber
Knelt Astrid the Abbess,
At midnight, adoring,
Beseeching, entreating
The Virgin and Mother.

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Ormuzd And Ahriman. The Overture.

© Christopher Pearse Cranch

Ah, what are all the discords of all time
But stumbling steps of one persistent life
That struggles up through mists to heights sublime
Forefelt through all creation's lingering strife: —
The deathless motion of one undertone,
Whose deep vibrations thrill from God to God alone!

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Anglicised Utopia

© William Schwenck Gilbert

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses,

Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

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Snow

© William Wilfred Campbell

Down out of heaven,
Frost-kissed
And wind driven,
Flake upon flake,
Over forest and lake,  
Cometh the snow.

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Divisions On A Ground

© Arthur Symons

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Beloved, there is a sorrow in the world

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Dorothy D.

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

I'm sick of "musn'ts," said Dorothy D.
Sick of musn'ts, as I can be.
From early dawn till the close of day
I hear a musn't, and never a may.

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Autumn Even-Song

© George Meredith

The long cloud edged with streaming grey
Soars from the West;
The red leaf mounts with it away,
Showing the nest
A blot among the branches bare:
There is a cry of outcasts in the air.

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An Hymne In Honour Of Love

© Edmund Spenser

Why then do I this honor unto thee,
Thus to ennoble thy victorious name,
Sith thou doest shew no favour unto mee,
Ne once move ruth in that rebellious dame,

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The Seven Year Old Poet

© Arthur Rimbaud

And so the Mother, shutting up the duty book,

Went, proud and satisfied.

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The Legend of La Brea

© Charles Kingsley

Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake,
In the stately Morichal,
Sat an ancient Spanish Indian,
Peering through the columns tall.

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True Confession

© George Barker

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Today, recovering from influenza,

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A Cavalier Song

© Robert Browning

  (Chorus)
  Marching along, fifty-score strong,
  Great-hearted gentlemen, singing this song.

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Ad Astra

© George Essex Evans

Cleaving the blue abysmal without sound,
 Pressed on my soul I felt the awful seals
Of that vast Cosmos without depth or bound,
 Blazing with golden wheels.

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book III - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal

© Lucretius

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know

That minds and the light souls of all that live