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Man Listening To Disc

© Billy Collins

This is not bad --
ambling along 44th Street
with Sonny Rollins for company,
his music flowing through the soft calipers
of these earphones,

The Best Cigarette

© Billy Collins

There are many that I miss
having sent my last one out a car window
sparking along the road one night, years ago.

I wonder how it all got started, this business
about seeing your life flash before your eyes
while you drown, as if panic, or the act of submergence,
could startle time into such compression, crushing
decades in the vice of your desperate, final seconds.

Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude

© Thomas Gray

Now the golden Morn aloft
Waves her dew-bespangled wing,
With vermeil cheek and whisper soft
She wooes the tardy Spring:

The Simple Line

© Laura Riding Jackson

The secrets of the mind convene splendidly,
Though the mind is meek.
To be aware inwardly
of brain and beauty

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 04

© Geoffrey Chaucer

'For thilke day that I for cherisshinge
Or drede of fader, or of other wight,
Or for estat, delyt, or for weddinge,
Be fals to yow,

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 05

© Geoffrey Chaucer

'As wel thou mightest lyen on Alceste,
That was of creatures, but men lye,
That ever weren, kindest and the beste.
For whanne hir housbonde was in Iupartye
To dye him-self, but-if she wolde dye,
She che

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 03

© Geoffrey Chaucer

Incipit prohemium tercii libri.O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere
Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
O sonnes lief, O Ioves doughter dere,
Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire,

The Sompnour's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Carrack: A great ship of burden used by the Portuguese; the
name is from the Italian, "cargare," to load

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01

© Geoffrey Chaucer

The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen,
That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,
In lovinge, how his aventures fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye,

The Reeve's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer

1. "With blearing of a proude miller's eye": dimming his eye;
playing off a joke on him.

The Friar's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer

"Peace, with mischance and with misaventure,"
Our Hoste said, "and let him tell his tale.
Now telle forth, and let the Sompnour gale,* *whistle; bawl
Nor spare not, mine owen master dear."

The Miller's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Pilate, an unpopular personage in the mystery-plays of the
middle ages, was probably represented as having a gruff, harsh
voice.

The Wife of Bath's Tale

7. "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and
silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and
some to dishonour." -- 2 Tim. ii 20.

The General Prologue

There was also a Reeve, and a Millere,
A Sompnour, and a Pardoner also,
A Manciple, and myself, there were no mo'.

The Knight's Tale

Upon that other side, Palamon,
When that he wist Arcita was agone,
Much sorrow maketh, that the greate tower
Resounded of his yelling and clamour
The pure* fetters on his shinnes great *very
Were of his bitter salte teares wet.

Examination at the Womb-Door

© Ted Hughes

Who is stronger than hope? Death.
Who is stronger than the will? Death.
Stronger than love? Death.
Stronger than life? Death.

May Morning

© James Wright

Deep into spring, winter is hanging on. Bitter and skillful in his
hopelessness, he stays alive in every shady place, starving along the
Mediterranean: angry to see the glittering sea-pale boulder alive
with lizards green as Judas leaves. Winter is hanging on. He still