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I sing of a commodity, it's one that will not fail yer,
I mean the common oddity, the mainstay of Australia;
Gold it is a precious thing, for commerce it increases,
But stringy bark and green hide, can beat it all to pieces.
Stringy bark and green hide, that will never fail yer!
Stringy bark and green hide, the mainstay of Australia.

English Eclogues IV - The Sailor's Mother

© Robert Southey

WOMAN.
Sir for the love of God some small relief
To a poor woman!

Upon the Kings happy return from Scotland

© Henry King

So breaks the day when the returning Sun
Hath newly through his Winter Tropick run,
As You (Great Sir!) in this regress come forth
From the remoter Climate of the North.

Mercury And The Elephant

© Anne Kingsmill Finch

Or shou'd my Friends Excuses frame,
And beg the Criticks not to blame
(Since from a Female Hand it came)
Defects in Judgment, or in Wit;
They'd but reply - Then has she Writ!

Song: I Wish I Were Old Now

© Margaret Widdemer

I WISH I were old now,
And maybe content;
I'd look back the long way
My footsteps were bent,
And say, "'Tis all done now
What odds how it went?"

Miss Blanche Says

© Francis Bret Harte

And you are the poet, and so you want

Something--what is it?--a theme, a fancy?

The Resurrection

© John Crowe Ransom

LONG, long before men die I sometimes read

Their stoic backs as plain as graveyard stones,

OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII (Entire)

© Alfred Tennyson

Thou wilt not leave us in the dust:
Thou madest man, he knows not why,
He thinks he was not made to die;
And thou hast made him: thou art just.

Corfu

© Richard Monckton Milnes

Thou pleasant Island, whose rich garden--shores
Have had a long--lived fame of loveliness,
Recorded in the historic song, that framed
The unknown Poet of an unknown time,

The Night Dances

© Sylvia Plath

A smile fell in the grass.

Irretrievable!

The Gulf of All Human Possessions

© Jonathan Swift

Come hither, and behold the fruits,
Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.
Take wise advice, and look behind,
Bring all past actions to thy mind.

Raschi In Prague

© Emma Lazarus

Raschi of Troyes, the Moon of Israel,

The authoritative Talmudist, returned

Dauber

© John Masefield

I

Four bells were struck, the watch was called on deck,

Cavalry Charge At Balaclava

© Sydney Thompson Dobell

Traveller on foreign ground, whoe'er thou art,

Tell the great tidings! They went down that day

The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter

While we to Jove select the holy victim

Whom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,

The Poem Of Imru al Qays

I said to the wolf, "You gather as little wealth, as little prosperity as I.
What either of us gains he gives away. So do we remain thin."

Sonnet LXVIII: A Dark Day

The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs

Is like the drops which strike the traveller's brow

Maha-Bharata, The Epic Of Ancient India - Book VI - Go-Harana - (Cattle-Lifting)

The conditions of the banishment of the sons of Pandu were hard. They
must pass twelve years in exile, and then they must remain a year in
concealment. If they were discovered within this last year, they must
go into exile for another twelve years.

On The Discoveries Of Captain Lewis (January 14, 1807)

© Joel Barlow

Let the Nile cloak his head in the clouds, and defy
The researches of science and time;
Let the Niger escape the keen traveller's eye,
By plunging or changing his clime.

I Cast My Net Into The Sea

In the morning I cast my net into the sea.

I dragged up from the dark abyss things of strange aspect and strange beauty -- some shone like a smile, some glistened like tears, and some were flushed like the cheeks of a bride.

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