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TRUTH wed to beauty in an antique tale,
Sweet-voiced like some immortal nightingale,
Trills the clear burden of her passsionate lay,
As fresh, as fair as wonderful to-day
As when the music of her balmy tongue
Ravished the first warm hearts for whom she sung.

Elegy V. Anno Aet. 20. On The Approach Of Spring (Translated From Milton)

© William Cowper

Time, never wand'ring from his annual round,

Bids Zephyr breathe the Spring, and thaw the ground;

Gebir

© Walter Savage Landor

FIRST BOOK.

The Sensible Romance Of Mildred

© Edgar Albert Guest

MILDRED McGee was a beautiful blond,

As fair as peroxide could make her.

The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons - Canto Third

© William Wordsworth

NOW joy for you who from the towers
Of Brancepeth look in doubt and fear,
Telling melancholy hours!
Proclaim it, let your Masters hear

The Marriage Of Geraint

© Alfred Tennyson

'Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel through sunshine, storm, and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.

Sonnet XV. To Schiller

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Schiller! that hour I would have wished to die,
If thro' the shudd'ring midnight I had sent
From the dark Dungeon of the Tower time-rent
That fearful voice, a famished Father's cry--

Wild Deer.

© Shams al-Din Hafiz

Where are you O Wild Deer?

I have known you for a while, here.

Envy

© Edgar Albert Guest

It's a bigger thing you're doing than the most of us have done;
We have lived the days of pleasure; now the gray days have begun,
And upon your manly shoulders fall the burdens of the strife;
Yours must be the sacrifices of the trial time of life.
Oh, I don't know how to say it, but I'll never think of you
Without wishing I were sharing in the work you have to do.