Men poems

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56. Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet

© Robert Burns

WHILE winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw,
An’ bar the doors wi’ driving snaw,
An’ hing us owre the ingle,
I set me down to pass the time,

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The Pang More Sharp Than All. An Allegory

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I.
He too has flitted from his secret nest,
Hope's last and dearest child without a name!--
Has flitted from me, like the warmthless flame,

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67. Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock

© Robert Burns

I’ve seen me dazed upon a time,
I scarce could wink or see a styme;
Just ae half-mutchkin does me prime,—
Ought less is little—
Then back I rattle on the rhyme,
As gleg’s a whittle.

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519. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2

© Robert Burns

FY, let us a’ to Kirkcudbright,
For there will be bickerin’ there;
For Murray’s light horse are to muster,
And O how the heroes will swear!

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April Byeway

© Edmund Blunden

  Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend,

  Be with me travelling on the byeway now

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The Seventh Day

© Yehudah HaLevi

Forget not the day of the Sabbath,

Its mention is like a pleasant offering.

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Orlando Furioso Canto 20

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Guido and his from that foul haunt retire,

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242. The Poet’s Progress

© Robert Burns

THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
Of thy caprice maternal I complain.
The peopled fold thy kindly care have found,
The hornèd bull, tremendous, spurns the ground;

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The Trees like Tassels—hit—and swung

© Emily Dickinson

The Trees like Tassels—hit—and swung—
There seemed to rise a Tune
From Miniature Creatures
Accompanying the Sun—

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The Dance Of Death

© Henry Austin Dobson

He is the despots' Despot. All must bide,

Later or soon, the message of his might;

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300. Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland

© Robert Burns

WHAT needs this din about the town o’ Lon’on,
How this new play an’ that new sang is comin?
Why is outlandish stuff sae meikle courted?
Does nonsense mend, like brandy, when imported?

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147. Address to a Haggis

© Robert Burns

Ye Pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer
Gie her a haggis!

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The Ballad of the White Horse

© Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Of great limbs gone to chaos,
A great face turned to night-
Why bend above a shapeless shroud
Seeking in such archaic cloud
Sight of strong lords and light?

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135. Epigram on Rough Roads

© Robert Burns

I’M now arrived—thanks to the gods!—
Thro’ pathways rough and muddy,
A certain sign that makin roads
Is no this people’s study:

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27. The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie

© Robert Burns

“O thou, whase lamentable face
Appears to mourn my woefu’ case!
My dying words attentive hear,
An’ bear them to my Master dear.

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28. Poor Mailie’s Elegy

© Robert Burns

O, a’ ye bards on bonie Doon!
An’ wha on Ayr your chanters tune!
Come, join the melancholious croon
O’ Robin’s reed!
His heart will never get aboon—
His Mailie’s dead!

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"Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve"

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

YES, tyrants, you hate us, and fear while you hate
The self-ruling, chain-breaking, throne-shaking State!
The night-birds dread morning,--your instinct is true,--
The day-star of Freedom brings midnight for you!

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157. Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh

© Robert Burns

WHEN, by a generous Public’s kind acclaim,
That dearest meed is granted—honest fame;
Waen here your favour is the actor’s lot,
Nor even the man in private life forgot;

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Untitled ( from The World We Laugh In)

© Harry Graham

Though many men have made their mark
By rising daily with the lark,
'Tis not a plan I recommend ;
The practice no one can defend.