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"Below The Sunset’s Range Of Rose"

© Madison Julius Cawein

Below the sunset's range of rose,
Below the heaven's deepening blue,
Down woodways where the balsam blows,
And milkweed tufts hang, gray with dew,
A Jersey heifer stops and lows-
The cows come home by one, by two.

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The Brother Of Mercy

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Piero Luca, known of all the town
As the gray porter by the Pitti wall
Where the noon shadows of the gardens fall,
Sick and in dolor, waited to lay down
His last sad burden, and beside his mat
The barefoot monk of La Certosa sat.

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Sonnet XI. On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer

© John Keats

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
  And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
  Round many western islands have I been
  Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

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A Hidden Life

© George MacDonald

Ah God! when Beauty passes by the door,
Although she ne'er came in, the house grows bare.
Shut, shut the door; there's nothing in the house.
Why seems it always that it should be ours?
A secret lies behind which Thou dost know,
And I can partly guess.

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The New Recruit

© Katharine Tynan

The lads were once my comrades,
  They stay at home content.
And now's the time of cricket,
  They count the days well spent.

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The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs

© Edward Lear

The Broom and the Shovel, the Poker and Tongs,

They all took a drive in the Park,

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The Captain’s Well

© John Greenleaf Whittier

From pain and peril, by land and main,

The shipwrecked sailor came back again;

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First Sunday After Epiphany

© John Keble

Lessons sweet of spring returning,

  Welcome to the thoughtful heart!

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A Farewell To Arms: To Queen Elizabeth

© George Peele

His golden locks Time hath to silver turn’d;
  O Time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth ‘gainst time and age hath ever spurn’d,
  But spurn’d in vain; youth waneth by increasing:
Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

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The Beggar’s Castle

© Richard Monckton Milnes

Those ruins took my thoughts away
To a far eastern land;
Like camels, in a herd they lay
Upon the dull red sand;
I know not that I ever sate
Within a place so desolate.

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To A Young Girl With An Album

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

Gentle Lily with this Album my warmest wishes take,
I know its pages oft thou’lt ope and prize it for my sake,
For, though a trifling offering, it bears the magic spell
Of coming from the hand of one who loves thee passing well.

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Ben Boyd's Tower

© Henry Lawson

Moonlight peoples Boyd Tower,
  Mystic are its walls;
Lightly dance the lovers
  In its haunted halls.

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Elegy VIII

© Henry James Pye

WRITTEN AT MINSTED IN THE NEW FOREST


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The Four Seasons : Summer

© James Thomson

From brightening fields of ether fair disclosed,
Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes,
In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth:
He comes attended by the sultry Hours,

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O Navio Negreiro Part 4. (With English Translation)

© Antonio de Castro Alves

Era um sonho dantesco… o tombadilho
Que das luzernas avermelha o brilho.
Em sangue a se banhar.
Tinir de ferros… estalar de açoite…
Legiões de homens negros como a noite,
Horrendos a dançar…

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Another Spring Carol

© Alfred Austin

Now Winter hath drifted
To bygone years,
And the sod is uplifted
By crocus spears;
And out of the hive the bee wings humming,
And we know that the Spring, the Spring, is coming.

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Horatius

© Thomas Babbington Macaulay

A Lay Made About the Year Of The City CCCLX

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Winter In Canada

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

Nay tell me not that, with shivering fear,
You shrink from the thought of wintering here;
That the cold intense of our winter-time
Is severe as that of Siberian clime,
And, if wishes could waft you across the sea,
You, to-night, in your English home would be.

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September

© Aldous Huxley

Spring is past and over these many days,

Spring and summer. The leaves of September droop,

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Unsated Memory

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Emerging from deep sleep my eyes unseal
To a pursuing strangeness. O to be
Where but a moment past I was, though where
The place, the time I know not, only feel
Far from this banished and so shrunken me,
Struck conscious to the alien dawn's blank peer!