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Our Master

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Immortal Love, forever full,
Forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole,
A never-ebbing sea!

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Apology For Bad Dreams

© Robinson Jeffers

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In the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward,

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Magdalen

© Fitz-Greene Halleck

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A SWORD, whose blade has ne'er been wet
With blood, except of freedom's foes;
That hope which, though its sun be set,

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This pig went to market

© Beatrix Potter


THIS pig went to market;
This pig stayed at home;

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An Elegy address'd to His Excellency Governour BELCHER: On the Death of his Brother-in-Law, the

© Mather Byles

Pensive, o'ercome, the Muse hung down her Head,

And heard the fatal News,-"The Friend is dead.

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My Land

© Edgar Albert Guest

My land is where the kind folks are,

And where the friends are true,

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'The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 5

© Publius Vergilius Maro

MEANTIME the Trojan cuts his wat’ry way,  

Fix’d on his voyage, thro’ the curling sea;  

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The War After The War

© John Le Gay Brereton

  What shall we say, who, drawing indolent breath,
  Mark the quick pant of those who, full of hate,
  Drive home the steel or loose the shrieking shell,
  Heroes or Huns, who smite the grin of death
  And laugh or curse beneath the blows of fate,
  Swept madly to the thudding heart of hell?

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The Cross Roads; Or, The Haymaker's Story

© John Clare

  The maids, impatient now old Goody ceased,
As restless children from the school released,
Right gladly proving, what she'd just foretold,
That young ones' stories were preferred to old,
Turn to the whisperings of their former joy,
That oft deceive, but very rarely cloy.

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To The Fossil Flower

© Jones Very

Dark fossil flower! I see thy leaves unrolled,

With all thy lines of beauty freshly marked,

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The Kalevala - Rune X

© Elias Lönnrot

ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO.


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A Toast To Happiness

© Edgar Albert Guest

  To happiness I raise my glass,

  The goal of every human,

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Nauhaught, The Deacon

© John Greenleaf Whittier

NAUHAUGHT, the Indian deacon, who of old

Dwelt, poor but blameless, where his narrowing Cape

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In War-Time A Psalm Of The Heart

© Sydney Thompson Dobell

Scourge us as Thou wilt, oh Lord God of Hosts;
Deal with us, Lord, according to our transgressions;
But give us Victory!
Victory, victory! oh, Lord, victory!
Oh, Lord, victory! Lord, Lord, victory!

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Aurora Leigh: Book Two

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


  I pulled the branches down
To choose from.

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Stanzas To A Lady, On Leaving England

© George Gordon Byron

'Tis done -- and shivering in the gale
The bark unfurls her snowy sail;
And whistling o'er the bending mast,
Loud sings on high the fresh'ning blast;
And I must from this land be gone,
Because I cannot love but one.

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The Three Friends

© Charles Lamb

Three young girls in friendship met;

Mary, Martha, Margaret.

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The Defiance Of Eteocles

© Aeschylus

MESSENGER

  Now at the Seventh Gate the seventh chief,

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In France

© Francis Ledwidge

The silence of maternal hills
Is round me in my evening dreams ;
And round me music-making bills
And mingling waves of pastoral streams.

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The Kalevala - Rune XLII

© Elias Lönnrot

CAPTURE OF THE SAMPO.