Time poems

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The Monks Of Basle

© John Hay

I tore this weed from the rank, dark soil
Where it grew in the monkish time,
I trimmed it close and set it again
In a border of modern rhyme.

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132. Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor

© Robert Burns

But, sir, this pleas’d them warst of a’,
An’ therefore, Tam, when that I saw,
I said “Gude night,” an’ cam’ awa’,
An’ left the Session;
I saw they were resolvèd a’
On my oppression.

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206. Song—Clarina, Mistress of my Soul

© Robert Burns

CLARINDA, mistres of my soul,
The measur’d time is run!
The wretch beneath the dreary pole
So marks his latest sun.

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Orlando Furioso Canto 7

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Rogero, as directed by the pair,

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108. Song—Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?

© Robert Burns

WILL ye go to the Indies, my Mary,
And leave auld Scotia’s shore?
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary,
Across th’ Atlantic roar?

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96. The Inventory

© Robert Burns

SIR, as your mandate did request,
I send you here a faithfu’ list,
O’ gudes an’ gear, an’ a’ my graith,
To which I’m clear to gi’e my aith.

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Love Declared

© Francis Thompson

I looked, she drooped, and neither spake, and cold,

We stood, how unlike all forecasted thought

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Scherzo

© Giacomo Leopardi

When, as a boy, I went

  To study in the Muses' school,

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Earth's Eternity

© John Clare

Man, Earth's poor shadow! talks of Earth's decay:

  But hath it nothing of eternal kin?

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Ma An' Me

© Edgar Albert Guest

There’ve been times we'd disagree

Somethin' awful, Ma an' me;

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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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Breitmann’s Sleigh-Ride

© Charles Godfrey Leland

VEN de winter make oos shifer
Und de bonds is froze mit ice,
To shlide und shkate on de rifer,
Mit de poys und gals is nice.

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83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night

© Robert Burns

MY lov’d, my honour’d, much respected friend!
No mercenary bard his homage pays;
With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end,
My dearest meed, a friend’s esteem and praise:

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10. The Ronalds of the Bennals

© Robert Burns

IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men,
And proper young lasses and a’, man;
But ken ye the Ronalds that live in the Bennals,
They carry the gree frae them a’, man.

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Velocity Of Money

© Allen Ginsberg

I’m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows

of Lower East Side

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The Old Professor

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

See, there he goes, a-pulling his long beard;

With frowning brow, and far and absent gaze,

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209. Song—M’Pherson’s Farewell

© Robert Burns

FAREWELL, ye dungeons dark and strong,
The wretch’s destinie!
M’Pherson’s time will not be long
On yonder gallows-tree.

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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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334. Song—Fragment—Damon and Sylvia

© Robert Burns

YON wandering rill that marks the hill,
And glances o’er the brae, Sir,
Slides by a bower, where mony a flower
Sheds fragrance on the day, Sir;