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In the wandering transparency
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these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your
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We'll hear nae mair lilting at the ewe-milking;
Women and bairns are
heartless
and wae;
Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning--
The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
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Arrived there,
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dolefull
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But, if Persuasion's grace be sacred to thee,
Soft in the
soothing
accents of my tongue,
Tarry, I pray thee; yet, if go thou wilt,
Not rightfully wilt thou on this my town
Sway down the scale that beareth wrath and teen
Or wasting plague upon this folk.
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
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De mon esprit humilie
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From the open cottage door,
Underneath
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To the pavement bending o'er;
Underneath the mossy willow
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the passion of thy soul,
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I have no need, Eurymachus, of guides 440
To lead me hence, for I have eyes and ears,
The use of both my feet, and of a mind
In no respect
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However, do not let me mislead you:
I am not a man in that
situation
of life, which, as your subscriber, can
be of any consequence to you, in the eyes of those to whom SITUATION OF
LIFE ALONE is the criterion of MAN.
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Bourget
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II
Its boughs, which none but darers trod,
A child may step on from the sod,
And twigs that
earliest
met the dawn
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Miss
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after some slight qualms, which I could easily mark, she sets the
titter round at defiance, and kindly allows me to keep my hold; and
when parted by the ceremony of my
introduction
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Thus speaketh one
Ferdinand
in the words of the play--
"She died full young"--one Bossola answers him--
"I think not so--her infelicity
"Seemed to have years too many"--Ah luckless lady!
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Faltered
the column, spent with shot and sword;
Its bright hope blanched with sudden pallor;
While Hancock's trefoil bloomed in triple fame.
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The hills just tell the
orchards
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our
children
will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living resemble us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
From the sea to the source
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The Word
Your Orange Hair in the Void of the World
Nusch
Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
I Only Wish to Love You
The World is Blue As an Orange
We Have Created the Night
Even When We Sleep
To Marc Chagall
Air Vif
Certitude
We two
'At Dawn I Love You'
'She Looks Into Me.
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You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,
And
therefore
cannot have the hearts to do it.
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could my sighs in accents flow
So
musically
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That thou might'st catch my am'rous woe,
And cease, proud Maid!
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All gone except their saint's religious hops,
Which he kept up with more than common flourish;
But these, however
satisfying
crops
For the inner man, were not enough to nourish
The body politic, which quickly drops
Reserve in such sad junctures, and turns currish; 230
So Ahmed soon got cursed for all the famine
Where'er the popular voice could edge a damn in.
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The
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between
it and the cave in _Laon and Cythna_ suggests a contrast between the
mind looking outward upon men and things and the mind looking inward
upon itself, which may or may not have been in Shelley's mind, but
certainly helps, with one knows not how many other dim meanings, to
give the poem mystery and shadow.
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
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I would be heartily out of humour with myself
if I thought I were capable of having so poor a notion of the sex,
which were designed to crown the
pleasures
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When I am in trouble eating is the only thing that
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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It must not be forgotten, that the
poet, who would produce any thing truly excellent in the kind, must
bid farewell to the conversation of his friends; he must renounce, not
only the
pleasures
of Rome, but also the duties of social life; he
must retire from the world; as the poets say, "to groves and grottos
every muse's son.
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Here one black, mute
midsummer
night I sat
Lonely, but musing on thee, wondering where,
Murmuring a light song I had heard thee sing,
And once or twice I spake thy name aloud.
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No Orphic rune, no
Thracian
scroll,
Hath magic to avert the morrow;
No healing all those medicines brave
Apollo to the Asclepiad gave;
Pale herbs of comfort in the bowl
Of man's wide sorrow.
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Greedy and grim, no golden rings
he gives for his pride; the
promised
future
forgets he and spurns, with all God has sent him,
Wonder-Wielder, of wealth and fame.
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Had but the light which dazzled them afar
Drawn but a little nearer to mine eyes,
Methinks I would have wholly changed my form,
Even as in Thessaly her form she changed:
But if I cannot lose myself in her
More than I have--small mercy though it won--
I would to-day in aspect
thoughtful
be,
Of harder stone than chisel ever wrought,
Of adamant, or marble cold and white,
Perchance through terror, or of jasper rare
And therefore prized by the blind greedy crowd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit--
let them cling, ripen of themselves,
test their own worth,
nipped,
shrivelled
by the frost,
to fall at last but fair
with a russet coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--Hebetes comme des yeux de vache,
Nos yeux ne
pleuraient
plus; nous allions, nous allions
Et quand nous avions mis le pays en sillons,
Quand nous avions laissee dans cette terre noire
Un peu de notre chair.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But a Voice--from Heaven, I
think--tells him the clay from which the Bowl is made was once Man;
and, into
whatever
shape renew'd, can never lose the bitter flavour of
Mortality.
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What
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Every household is selling hairpins and
bracelets
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Vigorous but controlled
imagination,
formative
power, insight into the significance of
things--these are qualities which a poet must eminently possess; but
these are qualities which may also be eminently possessed by men who
cannot claim the title of poet.
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(he cries,)
The day that shows me, ere I close my eyes,
A son and grandson of the
Arcesian
name
Strive for fair virtue, and contest for fame!
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Und mich wiegst du indes in
abgeschmackten
Zerstreuungen, verbirgst mir
ihren wachsenden Jammer und lassest sie hilflos verderben!
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd--Man's
forgiveness
give--and take!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The sun right up above the mast
Had fix'd her to the ocean:
But in a minute she 'gan stir
With a short uneasy motion--
Backwards and
forwards
half her length
With a short uneasy motion.
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XXIV
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And
perspective
it is best painter's art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Cherry-stones,
transported
by birds, 188.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We must remember here
the Virgil of the Fourth Eclogue--that extraordinary, impassioned poem
in which he dreams of man
attaining
to some perfection of living.
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Leave tenantless thy crystal home, and fly,
With all thy train, athwart the moony sky--
*Apart--like fire-flies in
Sicilian
night,
And wing to other worlds another light!
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a remarkable curtsey;
She twirled round and round, till she sank underground,
Which
distressed
all the people of Chertsey.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thou, rash, command'st us, leaving it afar,
To roam all night the Ocean's dreary waste;
But winds to ships
injurious
spring by night,
And how shall we escape a dreadful death
If, chance, a sudden gust from South arise
Or stormy West, that dash in pieces oft
The vessel, even in the Gods' despight?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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There
the
language
is plain and pleasing; even without stopping, round without
swelling: all well-turned, composed, elegant, and accurate.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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whose life one av'rice joins,
And one fate buries in th'
Asturian
mines.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I have marked
The like on heath, in lonely wood;
And, verily, have seldom met
A
spectacle
more hideous--yet
It suited Peter's present mood.
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And yet I could look beyond all this,
To a place of infinite beauty;
And I could see the
loveliness
of her
Who walked in the shade of the trees.
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Let it be
Still some atonement that I save the man, 110
Whose
sacrifice
had saved perhaps my own--
They come!
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Byron |
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The
Lombards
had opened a lucrative traffic with the ports of
Egypt, from whence they imported into Europe the riches of India; and
Bruges, the mart between them and the Hanse Towns, was, in consequence,
surrounded with the best agriculture of these ages,[43] a certain proof
of the dependence of agriculture upon the extent of commerce.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Show me some bastard mushrooms
Sprung from a
pollution
of blood.
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The fowler covers himself with a shield as he draws
his nets; the
fisherman
carries a sword whilst he hooks his fish; and
the native draws water from the well in an old rusty casque, instead of
a pail.
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Petrarch |
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Hard by the Lake Regillus
Our camp was pitched at night:
Eastward
a mile the Latines lay,
Under the Porcian height.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash--
you have broken off a
weighted
leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with
Predestination
round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth, --
The
sweeping
up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And she hath watched
Many a nightingale perch giddily
On
blossomy
twig still swinging from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song
Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He was undersized, but, in spite of
irregular features, his bronzed face had a
remarkably
gay and lively
expression.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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yet--for there my steps have been; 510
These feet have pressed the sacred shore,
These limbs that buoyant wave hath borne--
Minstrel!
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Byron |
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It is true your
daughter
is no more;--
That is, the peasant she was before.
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Longfellow |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Our
intellectual powers proceed in the same manner; they gain
strength
by
degrees, they arrive at maturity, and, when they can no longer
improve, they languish, droop, and fade away.
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Tacitus |
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Those of you who want to
download
any eBook before announcement
can get to them as follows, and just download by date.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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E'en the rude seaman, in some cave confined,
Pillows his head, as daylight quits the scene,
On the hard deck, with vilest mat o'erspread;
And when the Sun in orient wave serene
Bathes his resplendent front, and leaves behind
Those antique pillars of his boundless bed;
Forgetfulness has shed
O'er man, and beast, and flower,
Her mild restoring power:
But my
determined
grief finds no repose;
And every day but aggravates the woes
Of that remorseless flood, that, ten long years,
Flowing, yet ever flows,
Nor know I what can check its ceaseless tears.
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Petrarch |
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Hear how they counsel in manly measure
Action and
pleasure!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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That time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change;
Then let it come: I have no dread of what 230
Is called for by the instinct of mankind;
Nor think I that God's world will fall apart
Because we tear a
parchment
more or less.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sounds of the Winter
Sounds of the winter too,
Sunshine
upon the mountains--many a distant strain
From cheery railroad train--from nearer field, barn, house,
The whispering air--even the mute crops, garner'd apples, corn,
Children's and women's tones--rhythm of many a farmer and of flail,
An old man's garrulous lips among the rest, Think not we give out yet,
Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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