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Olympia XI
© Pindar
OLYMPIA Xl-FOR AGESIDAMUS OF THE WESTWIND LOCRIANS:
WINNER IN THE BOYS BOXING MATCH
Old Environment
© Franklin Pierce Adams
I used to think that this environ-
Ment talk was all a lot of guff;
Place mattered not with Keats and Byron
Stuff.
On Swearing by Gary Dop: American Life in Poetry #189 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006
© Ted Kooser
In celebration of Veteran's Day, here is a telling poem by Gary Dop, a Minnesota poet. The veterans of World War II, now old, are dying by the thousands. Here's one still with us, standing at Normandy, remembering.
On Swearing
Oh Thou Of Little Faith
© George MacDonald
Sad-hearted, be at peace: the snowdrop lies
Buried in sepulchre of ghastly snow;
But spring is floating up the southern skies,
And darkling the pale snowdrop waits below.
Olney Hymn 24: Prayer For Children
© William Cowper
Gracious Lord, our children see,
By Thy mercy we are free;
One Against the World
© William Schwenck Gilbert
When charms enthral
There's some excuse
For measures strong;
And after all
I'm but a goose,
And may be wrong!
Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious....
© Roald Dahl
Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious!
You are slimy and soggy and squishous!
But what do we care
'Cause you can't get in here,
So hop it and don't get ambitious!
On Receiving A Laurel Crown From Leigh Hunt
© John Keats
MINUTES are flying swiftly, and as yet
Nothing unearthly has enticed my brain
Over the Ranges and Into the West
© Henry Lawson
LET OTHERS sing praise of their sea-girted isles,
But give me the bush with its limitless miles;
Then its over the ranges and into the West,
To the scenes of wild boyhood; we love them the best.
On Don Surly
© Benjamin Jonson
Don Surly, to aspire the glorious name
Of a great man, and to be thought the same,
One Woman's Memory
© Wilcox Ella Wheeler
Here is a lock of his soft, dark hair,
And here are the letters he wrote to me.
On Sharing A Husband
© Ho Xuan Huong
Screw the fate that makes you share a man.
One cuddles under cotton blankets; the other's cold.
Ode Written In The Beginning Of The Year 1746
© William Taylor Collins
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
Olney Hymn 33: Seeking The Beloved
© William Cowper
To those who love the Lord I speak;
Is my Beloved near?
The Bridegroom of my soul I seek,
Oh! when will He appear?
Our Sweet Singer
© Oliver Wendell Holmes
ONE memory trembles on our lips;
It throbs in every breast;
In tear-dimmed eyes, in mirth's eclipse,
The shadow stands confessed.
On Life's Long Round
© Mathilde Blind
On life's long round by chance I found
A dell impearled with dew;
Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground,
Lent to the earth heaven's native hue
Of holy blue.
On The Lighthouse At Antibes
© Mathilde Blind
The evening knows thee ere the evening star;
Or sees that flame sole Regent of the bight,
When storm, hoarse rumoured by the hills afar,
Makes mariners steer landward by thy light,
Which shows through shock of hostile nature's war
How man keeps watch o'er man through deadliest night.
One Crucifixion is recordedonly
© Emily Dickinson
One Crucifixion is recordedonly
How many be
Is not affirmed of Mathematics
Or History
Ole Kate
© Ezra Pound
When I was only a youngster,
Sing: toodle doodlede ootl
Ole Kate would git her 'arf a pint
And wouldn't' giv' a damn hoot.
