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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - part 04

© Torquato Tasso

XXXI

Thus spake the nymph, yet spake but to the wind,

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Fried Beauty by R. S. Gwynn: American Life in Poetry #166 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006

© Ted Kooser

Texas poet R. S. Gwynn is a master of the light touch. Here he picks up on Gerard Manley Hopkins' sonnet “Pied Beauty,â€? which many of you will remember from school, and offers us a picnic instead of a sermon. I hope you enjoy the feast!

Fried Beauty

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The Two Rabbins

© John Greenleaf Whittier

THE Rabbi Nathan two-score years and ten

Walked blameless through the evil world, and then,

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Under The Pine

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

The same majestic pine is lifted high
Against the twilight sky,
The same low, melancholy music grieves
Amid the topmost leaves,
As when I watched, and mused, and dreamed with him,
Beneath these shadows dim.

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The Meeting

© John Greenleaf Whittier

The elder folks shook hands at last,

Down seat by seat the signal passed.

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A Dream

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

I dreamt a dream, a dazzling dream, of a green isle far away,

Where the glowing West to the ocean's breast calleth the dying day;

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The Kingdom of Love

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

In the dawn of the day, when the sea and the earth

  Reflected the sunrise above,

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The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother

© John Greenleaf Whittier

Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage

Gone, gone, - sold and gone

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Ode to Captain Paery

© Thomas Hood

Paery, my man! has thy brave leg
Yet struck its foot against the peg
On which the world is spun?
Or hast thou found No Thoroughfare
Writ by the hand of Nature there
Where man has never run!

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An English Ballad, On The Taking Of Namur, By The King Of Great Britain

© Matthew Prior

Dulce est desipere in loco.

Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:

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Lines To The Memory Of Pitt

© Thomas Babbington Macaulay

Oh Britain! dear Isle, when the annals of story
Shall tell of the deeds that thy children have done,
When the strains of each poet shall sing of their glory,
And the triumphs their skill and their valour have won.

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The Princes' Ques -Part the Eighth

© William Watson

Now as it chanced, the day was almost spent

When down the lonely mountain-side he went,

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Fragments Of An Unfinished Poem

© James Russell Lowell

I am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Haddam,

And have some reason to surmise that I descend from Adam;

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Peruvian Tales: Cora, Tale IV

© Helen Maria Williams

ALMAGRO'S expedition to Chili-His troops suffer great hardships from cold, in crossing the Andes-They reach Chili-The Chilians make a brave resistance-The revolt of the Peruvians in Cuzco--They are led on by MANCO CAPAC , the successor of ATALIBA -Parting with CORA , his wife-The Peruvians regain half their city-ALMAGRO leaves Chili-To avoid the Andes, he crosses a vast desert-His troops can find no water-They divide into two bands-ALPHONSO leads the second band, which soon reaches a fertile valley-The Spaniards observe that the natives are employed in searching the streams for gold-They resolve to attack them.


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Rowers Chant

© Thomas Sturge Moore

  Row till the land dip 'neath
  The sea from view.
  Row till a land peep up,
  A home for you.

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The Abencerrage : Canto III.

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Onward their slow and stately course they bend
To where the Alhambra's ancient towers ascend,
Reared and adorned by Moorish kings of yore,
Whose lost descendants there shall dwell no more.

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The Lost Letter

© Henry Clay Work

Two lives wreck'd by a zephyr!
Two hearts crush'd by the fall,
When that most precious missive, that love laden letter,
Flutter'd down thro' the gap in the wall.

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Hymns Of The Brahmo Somaj

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I.

The mercy, O Eternal One!

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Herself A Rose Who Bore The Rose

© Christina Georgina Rossetti

Herself a rose, who bore the Rose,

She bore the Rose and felt its thorn.

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The Foolish Virgins

© John Newton

When descending from the sky

The Bridegroom shall appear;