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Piety: Or, The Vision

© Thomas Parnell

But still I fear, unwarm'd with holy flame,
I take for truth the flatt'ries of a dream;
And barely wish the wond'rous gift I boast,
And faintly practise what deserves it most.

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The Abencerrage : Canto III.

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Onward their slow and stately course they bend
To where the Alhambra's ancient towers ascend,
Reared and adorned by Moorish kings of yore,
Whose lost descendants there shall dwell no more.

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Two Sonnets From The Spanish Of Francisco De Medrano

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Causa la vista el artificio humano, etc.

The works of human artifice soon tire

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Der Freischutz

© Charles Godfrey Leland

AIR - "Der Pabst lebt,"
WIE gehts, my frendts-if you'll allow-
I sings you rite afay shoost now
Some dretful shdories vitch dey calls
Der Freyschutz, or de Magic Balls.

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" As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest"

© William Wordsworth

  As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest

  While from the Papal Unity there came,

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Temperance Reform Clubs

© Julia A Moore

Air - "Perhaps"


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Phoebus Mistaken

© Samuel Boyse

When Apollo pursu'd his coy Mistress of old,

If his Harp, as they tell us, was made of right Gold;

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Naples And Venice

© Richard Monckton Milnes


Thou, who to that lofty terrace, lov'st on summer--eve to go,
Tell me, Poet! what Thou seest,--what Thou hearest, there below!

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On The Consequences Of Happy Marriages

© George Moses Horton

Hail happy pair from whom such raptures rise,
On whom I gaze with pleasure and surprize;
From thy bright rays the gloom of strife is driven,
For all the smiles of mutual love are Heaven.

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The Sky-Lark

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

THE Sky-lark, when the dews of morn
Hang tremulous on flower and thorn,
And violets round his nest exhale
Their fragrance on the early gale,
To the first sunbeam spreads his wings,
Buoyant with joy, and soars, and sings.

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The Pageant

© John Greenleaf Whittier

A sound as if from bells of silver,
Or elfin cymbals smitten clear,
Through the frost-pictured panes I hear.

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Orlando Furioso Canto 11

© Ludovico Ariosto

ARGUMENT

Assisted by the magic ring she wears,

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Moore

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

He sings the heroic tales of old
When Ireland yet was free,
Of many a fight and foray bold,
And raid beyond the sea.

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War And Peace—A Poem

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Thou, whose lov'd presence and benignant smile
Has beam'd effulgence on this favour'd isle;
Thou! the fair seraph, in immortal state,
Thron'd on the rainbow, heaven's emblazon'd gate;
Thou! whose mild whispers in the summer-breeze
Control the storm, and undulate the seas;

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The Wrongs Of Africa: Part The Second

© William Roscoe

FAIR is this fertile spot, which God assign'd

As man's terrestrial home; where every charm

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The Bell-Founder Part I - Labour And Hope

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

In that land where the heaven-tinted pencil giveth shape to the
splendour of dreams,
Near Florence, the fairest of cities, and Arno, the sweetest of streams,
'Neath those hills whence the race of the Geraldine wandered in ages

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The Meadow Lark

© Hamlin Garland

A BRAVE little bird that fears not God,

A voice that breaks from the snow-wet clod

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Another Bit And An Offer

© Ezra Pound

I see by the morning papers
That America's sturdy sons
Have started a investigation
Of the making of guns.

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By Still Waters

© Bliss William Carman

MY tent stands in a garden

Of aster and goldenrod,

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Play The Game

© Jessie Pope

Twenty-Two stalwarts in stripes and shorts

Kicking a ball along,