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Polyphemus

© Alfred Austin

ACIS  ``You are brighter than either. I cannot descry you
From radiant ripple until I come nigh you.
 I lose you, I find you, again you grow dimmer,
Till round me seems nothing but shadow and shimmer.
'Tis your golden-rayed ringlets that baffle and blind me.''

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Georgine Sand Miner

© Edgar Lee Masters

A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me.
A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue.
For years I was his mistress -- no one knew.
I learned from him the parasite cunning

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Thurso’s Landing

© Robinson Jeffers

  In the night Reave dreamed that Helen
Lay with him in the deep grave, he awoke loathing her,
But when the weak moment between sleep and waking
Was past, his need of her and his judgment of her
Knew their suspended duel; and he heard her breathing,
Irregularly, gently in the dark.

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Chords

© Madison Julius Cawein

  When love delays, when love delays and Joy
  Steals a strange shadow o'er the happy hills,
  And Hope smiles from To-morrow, nor fulfills
  One promise of To-day, thy sight would cloy
  This soul with loved despair
  By seeing thee so fair.

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John Horace Burleson

© Edgar Lee Masters

I won the prize essay at school
Here in the village,
And published a novel before I was twenty-five.
I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art;

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Oh That I Were As In Months Past!

© John Newton

Sweet was the time when first I felt
The Saviour's pard'ning blood
Applied, to cleanse my soul from guilt,
And bring me home to God.

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Barry Holden

© Edgar Lee Masters

The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp
Set fire to the house
They were trying Dr. Duval
For the murder of Zora Clemens,

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Blind Jack

© Edgar Lee Masters

I had fiddled all day at the county fair.
But driving home "Butch" Weldy and Jack McGuire,
Who were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle
To the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses

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Hope

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

DE dog go howlin' 'long de road,

De night come shiverin' down;

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Mrs. Purkapile

© Edgar Lee Masters

He ran away and was gone for a year.
When he came home he told me the silly story
Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan
And kept in chains so he could not write me.

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The Suicide’s Grave (From The German)

© George Borrow

The evening shadows fall upon the grave
On which I sit; it is no common heap,—
Below its turf are laid the bones of one,
Who, sick of life and misery, did quench
The vital spark which in his bosom burn’d.

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Many Soldiers

© Edgar Lee Masters

The idea danced before us as a flag;
The sound of martial music;
The thrill of carrying a gun;
Advancement in the world on coming home;

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Rita Matlock Gruenberg

© Edgar Lee Masters

Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys,
And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six,
Here is your little Rita at last
Grown old, grown forty-nine;

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Petit, The Poet

© Edgar Lee Masters

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,
Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel--
Faint iambics that the full breeze wakens--
But the pine tree makes a symphony thereof.

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The Rowfant Catalogue

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Friends had he many, neighbours next to none.
Rowfant and Crabbet lay few fields apart.
Each Sunday saw him here, his church drill done,
Duly stroll in to talk of books and art,

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The Widow Of Crescentius : Part I.

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

'Midst Tivoli's luxuriant glades,

Bright-foaming falls, and olive shades,

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Down Around The River

© James Whitcomb Riley

Noon-time and June-time, down around the river!

  Have to furse with 'Lizey Ann--but lawzy! I fergive her!

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Lucinda Matlock

© Edgar Lee Masters

I went to the dances at Chandlerville,
And played snap-out at Winchester.
One time we changed partners,
Driving home in the midnight of middle June,

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The Season of the Northers

© Jose Maria de Heredia y Campuzano

The weary summer's all-consuming heat
Is tempered now; for from the frozen pole,
The freed north winds come fiercely rushing forth,
Wrapt in their mantles, misty, dim, and frore,
While the foul fever flies from Cuba's shore.

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Two Infants II

© Khalil Gibran

A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let me offer you and this whole fortunate country my congratulations upon the birth of a new prince who will carry the name of my noble family, and of whom you will be justly proud