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The Lotos-eaters

© Alfred Tennyson

"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land,

"This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon."

Prayer For The Home

© Edgar Albert Guest

Peace, unto this house, I pray,
Keep terror and despair away;
Shield it from evil and let sin
Never find lodging room within.
May never in these walls be heard
The hateful or accusing word.

A Happy Childhood

© William Matthews

No one keeps a secret so well as a child
Victor Hugo
My mother stands at the screen door, laughing.
“Out out damn Spot,” she commands our silly dog.
I wonder what this means. I rise into adult air

When She Comes Home

© James Whitcomb Riley

When she comes home again! A thousand ways

I fashion, to myself, the tenderness

An Epistle: (To N.A.)

© William Watson

So, into Cornwall you go down,

And leave me loitering here in town.

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

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thorberg Skafting, master-builder,
In his ship-yard by the sea,
Whistling, said, "It would bewilder
Any man but Thorberg Skafting,
Any man but me!"

Aeneid, II, 692 - end

© Virgil

As he spoke we could hear, ever more loudly, the noise

Of the burning fires; the flood of flames was coming

Sonnet XVIII: Genius in Beauty

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Beauty like hers is genius. Not the call

Of Homer's or of Dante's heart sublime,

(Over the green and yellow...)

I

Over the green and yellow rice fields sweep the shadows of the autumn clouds, followed by the swift-chasing sun.
The bees forget to sip their honey; drunken with the light they foolishly hum and hover; and the ducks in the sandy riverbank clamour in joy for mere nothing.

Only a Dad

© Edgar Albert Guest

Only a dad, with a tired face,
Coming home from the daily race,
Bringing little of gold or fame,
To show how well he has played the game,
But glad in his heart that his own rejoice
To see him come, and to hear his voice.

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet

© John Berryman

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The Governor your husband lived so long

The Recollect Church

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

Quickly are crumbling the old gray walls,

Soon the last stone will be gone,

Tintagel

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Low is laid Arthur's head,
Unknown earth above him mounded;
By him sleep his splendid knights,
With whose names the world resounded.

The Poet And The Children

WITH a glory of winter sunshine
Over his locks of gray,
In the old historic mansion
He sat on his last birthday;

Laus Veneris

Asleep or waking is it? for her neck,
Kissed over close, wears yet a purple speck
Wherein the pained blood falters and goes out;
Soft, and stung softly — fairer for a fleck.

Kaddish

Magnificent, mourned no more, marred of heart, mind behind, married dreamed, mortal changed—Ass and face done with murder.
In the world, given, flower maddened, made no Utopia, shut under pine, almed in Earth, balmed in Lone, Jehovah, accept.
Nameless, One Faced, Forever beyond me, beginningless, endless, Father in death. Tho I am not there for this Prophecy, I am unmarried, I’m hymnless, I’m Heavenless, headless in blisshood I would still adore
Thee, Heaven, after Death, only One blessed in Nothingness, not light or darkness, Dayless Eternity—
Take this, this Psalm, from me, burst from my hand in a day, some of my Time, now given to Nothing—to praise Thee—But Death
This is the end, the redemption from Wilderness, way for the Wonderer, House sought for All, black handkerchief washed clean by weeping—page beyond Psalm—Last change of mine and Naomi—to God’s perfect Darkness—Death, stay thy phantoms!

Rome

© Ezra Pound

FROM THE FRENCH OF JOACHIM DU BELLAY
O thou new comer who seek'st Rome in Rome
And find'st in Rome no thing thou canst call Roman;
Arches worn old and palaces made common,
Rome's name alone within these walls keeps home.

Iron rusts, and bronze has its green sickness; while flint, the hard stones, flint and chalcedony,

Cut the soft stream of time as if they were made for immortal uses. So the two-thousand-year-old