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Manners
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Tue, Feb 14, 2012
Manners by Elizabeth Bishop
For a Child of 1918
"My grandfather said to me
as we sat on the wagon seat,
"Be sure to remember to always
speak to everyone you meet" ...
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The Flower Boat
Author: Robert Frost
Mon, Feb 13, 2012
The Flower Boat by Robert Frost
"The fisherman's swapping a yarn for a yarn
Under the hand of the village barber,
And her in the angle of house and barn
His deep-sea dory has found a harbor"...
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Solitude
Author: Anna Akhmatova
Sun, Feb 12, 2012
Solitude by Anna Akhmatova
"So many stones have been thrown at me,
That I'm not frightened of them anymore,
And the pit has become a solid tower,
Tall among tall towers"...
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Drying Their Wings
Author: Vachel Lindsay
Sat, Feb 11, 2012
Drying Their Wings by Vachel Lindsay
"What the Carpenter Said
The moon's a cottage with a door.
Some folks can see it plain.
Look, you may catch a glint of light,
A sparkle through the pane"...
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Wedding-Ring
Author: Denise Levertov
Fri, Feb 10, 2012
Wedding-Ring by Denise Levertov
"My wedding-ring lies in a basket
as if at the bottom of a well.
Nothing will come to fish it back up
and onto my finger again"...
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In The Poppy Field
Author: James Stephens
Thu, Feb 9, 2012
In The Poppy Field by James Stephens
"Mad Patsy said, he said to me,
That every morning he could see
An angel walking on the sky;
Across the sunny skies of morn
He threw great handfuls far and nigh"...
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The Right Thing
Author: Theodore Roethke
Wed, Feb 8, 2012
The Right Thing by Theodore Roethke
"Let others probe the mystery if they can.
Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will?
The right thing happens to the happy man"...
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Pretty Cow
Author: Jane Taylor
Tue, Feb 7, 2012
Pretty Cow by Jane Taylor
"Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread
Every day and every night,
Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white"...
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The Dog Lovers
Author: Spike Milligan
Mon, Feb 6, 2012
The Dog Lovers by Spike Milligan
"So they bought you
And kept you in a
Very good home
Central heating
TV
A deep freeze
A very good home"...
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Her Kind
Author: Anne Sexton
Sun, Feb 5, 2012
Her Kind by Anne Sexton
"I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light"...
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Mistrust
Author: George William Russell
Sat, Feb 4, 2012
Mistrust by George William Russell
"You look at me with wan, bright eyes
When in the deeper world I stray:
You fear some hidden ambush lies
In wait to call me, ?Come away?...
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I Dug And Dug Amongst The Snow
Author: Christina Rossetti
Fri, Feb 3, 2012
I Dug And Dug Amongst The Snow by Christina Rossetti
"I dug and dug amongst the snow,
And thought the flowers would never grow;
I dug and dug amongst the sand,
And still no green thing came to hand"...
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Still Life
Author: Carl Sandburg
Thu, Feb 2, 2012
Still Life by Carl Sandburg
"Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car.
Let the engineer open her up for ninety miles an hour"...
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The Wreck
Author: Albert Laighton
Wed, Feb 1, 2012
The Wreck by Albert Laighton
"The Ocean sang to my heart last night,
When I folded my hands in rest,
A tune as sweet as a mother sings
To the child upon her breast"...
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The Wish
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
The Wish By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Should some great angel say to me tomorrow,
'Thou must re-tread thy pathway from the start"...
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The Prisoner And The Angel
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Mon, Jan 30, 2012
The Prisoner And The Angel
by Henry Van Dyke
"Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul;
Love is the only angel who can bid the gates unroll"...
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The Life Beyond
Author: Rupert Brooke
Sun, Jan 29, 2012
The Life Beyond by Rupert Brooke
"He wakes, who never thought to wake again,
Who held the end was Death. He opens eyes
Slowly, to one long livid oozing plain"...
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Paradise Seed
Author: Kathleen Raine
Sat, Jan 28, 2012
Paradise Seed by Kathleen Raine
"Where is the seed
Of the tree felled,
Of the forest burned,
Or living root
Under ash and cinders"...
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Sleepless Nights
Author: Frances Anne Kemble
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
Sleepless Nights by Frances Anne Kemble
"In sleepless nights my sad forgotten lute
Breathes with low strains of broken melody"...
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The Window
Author: Conrad Aiken
Thu, Jan 26, 2012
The Window by Conrad Aiken
"She looks out in the blue morning
and sees a whole wonderful world
she looks out in the morning
and sees a whole world"...
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Luminous mind, bright devil
Author: Pablo Neruda
Wed, Jan 25, 2012
Luminous mind, bright devil by Pablo Neruda
"Luminous mind, bright devil
of absolute clusterings, of upright noon---:
here we are at last, alone, without loneliness,
far from the savage city's delirium"...
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Gibberish
Author: Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Tue, Jan 24, 2012
Gibberish by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
"Many a flower have I seen blossom,
Many a bird for me will sing.
Never heard I so sweet a singer,
Never saw I so fair a thing"...
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Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles
Author: W H Auden
Mon, Jan 23, 2012
Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles
by W H Auden
"Warm are the still and lucky miles,
White shores of longing stretch away,
A light of recognition fills
The whole great day, and bright
The tiny world of lovers' arms"...
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A Chorus
Author: Elizabeth Jennings
Sun, Jan 22, 2012
A Chorus by Elizabeth Jennings
"Over the surging tides and the mountain kingdoms,
Over the pastoral valleys and the meadows,
Over the cities with their factory darkness"...
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The Prisoners
Author: Robert Hayden
Sat, Jan 21, 2012
The Prisoners by Robert Hayden
"Steel doors ? guillotine gates ?
of the doorless house closed massively.
We were locked in with loss"...
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The Glow-Worm
Author: Charlotte Smith
Fri, Jan 20, 2012
The Glow-Worm by Charlotte Smith
"When on some balmy-breathing night of Spring
The happy child, to whom the world is new,
Pursues the evening moth, of mealy wing"...
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Longing
Author: Matthew Arnold
Thu, Jan 19, 2012
Longing by Matthew Arnold
"Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day"...
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A Night Thought
Author: William Wordsworth
Wed, Jan 18, 2012
A Night Thought by William Wordsworth
"Lo! where the Moon along the sky
Sails with her happy destiny;
Oft is she hid from mortal eye
Or dimly seen"...
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Laggard
Author: Margaret Widdemer
Tue, Jan 17, 2012
Laggard by Margaret Widdemer
"My mind is very swift and gay;
She flutters to and fro,
She knows a thousand things to play,
A thousand roads to go"...
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What if you slept ...
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mon, Jan 16, 2012
What if you slept ...
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then?"
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The Worst And The Best
Author: Charles Bukowski
Sun, Jan 15, 2012
The Worst And The Best by Charles Bukowski
"in the hospitals and jails
it's the worst
in madhouses
it's the worst
in penthouses
it's the worst
in skid row flophouses
it's the worst"...
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The Bee is not afraid of me
Author: Emily Dickinson
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
The Bee is not afraid of me. by Emily Dickinson
"The Bee is not afraid of me.
I know the Butterfly.
The pretty people in the Woods
Receive me cordially --
The Brooks laugh louder when I come --
The Breezes madder play;
Wherefore mine eye thy silver mists,
Wherefore, Oh Summer's Day?"
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The Quest
Author: Laura Benet
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
The Quest by Laura Benet
"I am seeking for my pool.
It lies among the heather,
Where misty mountains gather
Still and cool"...
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I threw my arms about those shoulders
Author: Joseph Brodsky
Thu, Jan 12, 2012
I threw my arms about those shoulders by Joseph Brodsky
"I threw my arms about those shoulders, glancing
at what emerged behind that back,
and saw a chair pushed slightly forward,
merging now with the lighted wall"...
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Mysterious Doings
Author: Eugene Field
Wed, Jan 11, 2012
Mysterious Doings by Eugene Field
"As once I rambled in the woods
I chanced to spy amid the brake
A huntsman ride his way beside
A fair and passing tranquil lake"...
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My Jealousy
Author: Patience Worth
Tue, Jan 10, 2012
My Jealousy by Patience Worth
"I would that sorrow were not
A common lot. I would that she
Might never fellow with all creation"...
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The Blue Ridge
Author: Harriet Monroe
Mon, Jan 9, 2012
The Blue Ridge by Harriet Monroe
"Still and calm,
In purple robes of kings,
The low-lying mountains sleep at the edge of the world.
The forests cover them like mantles"...
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a pretty a day
Author: E. E. Cummings
Sun, Jan 8, 2012
a pretty a day by E. E. Cummings
"a pretty a day
(and every fades)
is here and away
(but born are maids
to flower an hour
in all,all)"...
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A Pinch of Salt
Author: Robert Graves
Sat, Jan 7, 2012
A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves
"When a dream is born in you
With a sudden clamorous pain,
When you know the dream is true
And lovely, with no flaw nor stain"...
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Romance
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Fri, Jan 6, 2012
Romance by Edgar Allan Poe
"Romance, who loves to nod and sing
With drowsy head and folded wing
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake"...
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Camomile Tea
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Thu, Jan 5, 2012
Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield
"Outside the sky is light with stars;
There's a hollow roaring from the sea.
And, alas! for the little almond flowers,
The wind is shaking the almond tree"...
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Good Hours
Author: Robert Frost
Wed, Jan 4, 2012
Good Hours by Robert Frost
"I had for my winter evening walk--
No one at all with whom to talk,
But I had the cottages in a row
Up to their shining eyes in snow"...
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Stars Wheel in Purple
Author: Hilda Doolittle
Tue, Jan 3, 2012
Stars Wheel in Purple by Hilda Doolittle
"Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare
as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star
as bright Aldeboran or Sirius,
nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War"...
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The Darkling Thrush
Author: Thomas Hardy
Mon, Jan 2, 2012
The Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy
"I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day"...
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New Year's Morning
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
Sun, Jan 1, 2012
New Year's Morning by Helen Hunt Jackson
"Only a night from old to new!
Only a night, and so much wrought!
The Old Year's heart all weary grew,
But said: The New Year rest has brought."
The Old Year's hopes its heart laid down,
As in a grave; but trusting, said:
"The blossoms of the New Year's crown
Bloom from the ashes of the dead." ...
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A Song for New Year's Eve
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Sat, Dec 31, 2011
A Song for New Year's Eve
by William Cullen Bryant
"Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay?
Stay till the good old year,
So long companion of our way,
Shakes hands, and leaves us here.
Oh stay, oh stay,
One little hour, and then away"...
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Ring Out, Wild Bells
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fri, Dec 30, 2011
"Ring Out, Wild Bells"
from In Memoriam
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die"
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Grown Up
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Thu, Dec 29, 2011
Grown Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?"
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Winter Trees
Author: William Carlos Williams
Wed, Dec 28, 2011
Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams
"All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold."
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December Night
Author: W. S. Merwin
Tue, Dec 27, 2011
December Night by W. S. Merwin
"The cold slope is standing in darkness
But the south of the trees is dry to the touch
The heavy limbs climb into the moonlight bearing feathers
I came to watch these
White plants older at night
The oldest
Come first to the ruins"...
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Winter Complaint
Author: Ogden Nash
Mon, Dec 26, 2011
inter Complaint by Ogden Nash
"Now when I have a cold
I am careful with my cold,
I consult a physician
And I do as I am told.
I muffle up my torso
In woolly woolly garb,
And I quaff great flagons
Of sodium bicarb"...
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Christmas Bells
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sun, Dec 25, 2011
Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas
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Sat, Dec 24, 2011
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
by Clement C. Moore
" 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there"...
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The Holidays
Author: Jane Taylor
Fri, Dec 23, 2011
The Holidays by Jane Taylor
"Ah! don't you remember, 'tis almost December,
And soon will the holidays come;
Oh, 'twill be so funny, I've plenty of money,
I'll buy me a sword and a drum."...
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Candles
Author: Constantine P. Cavafy
Thu, Dec 22, 2011
Candles by Constantine P. Cavafy
The days of our future stand in front of us
like a row of little lit candles --
golden, warm, and lively little candles"...
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Gingerbread
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
Gingerbread by Louisa May Alcott
"Gingerbread,
Go to the head.
Your task is done;
A soul is won.
Take it and go
Where muffins grow,
Where sweet loaves rise
To the very skies"...
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Like Snow
Author: Robert Graves
Tue, Dec 20, 2011
Like Snow by Robert Graves
"She, then, like snow in a dark night,
Fell secretly. And the world waked
With dazzling of the drowsy eye,
So that some muttered 'Too much light'"...
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Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
Author: Louise Bogan
Mon, Dec 19, 2011
Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
by Louise Bogan
"Men loved wholly beyond wisdom
Have the staff without the banner.
Like a fire in a dry thicket
Rising within women's eyes
Is the love men must return"...
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Misgivings
Author: Herman Melville
Sun, Dec 18, 2011
Misgivings by Herman Melville
"When ocean-clouds over inland hills
Sweep storming in late autumn brown,
And horror the sodden valley fills,
And the spire falls crashing in the town,
I muse upon my country's ills"...
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The Dance
Author: Rupert Brooke
Fri, Dec 16, 2011
The Dance by Rupert Brooke
"As the Wind, and as the Wind,
In a corner of the way,
Goes stepping, stands twirling,
Invisibly, comes whirling,
Bows before, and skips behind,
In a grave, an endless play"...
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Love is Enough
Author: William Morris
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Love is Enough by William Morris
"Love is enough: though the World be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining"...
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Learning To Laugh
Author: Patience Worth
Wed, Dec 14, 2011
Learning To Laugh by Patience Worth
"Since I have learned to laugh
At the pack day hath lain upon me,
And to wink and jest and whistle a whit,
I find my wisdom is not so drear-browed"...
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The Old, Old Song
Author: Charles Kingsley
Tue, Dec 13, 2011
The Old, Old Song by Charles Kingsley
"When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen"...
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Snowfall
Author: Sara Teasdale
Mon, Dec 12, 2011
Snowfall by Sara Teasdale
"She can't be unhappy," you said,
"The smiles are like stars in her eyes,
And her laughter is thistledown
Around her low replies"...
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The Garret
Author: Ezra Pound
Sun, Dec 11, 2011
The Garret by Ezra Pound
"Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
that the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers"...
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Blindness
Author: George William Russell
Sat, Dec 10, 2011
Blindness by George William Russell
"Our true hearts are forever lonely:
A wistfulness is in our thought:
Our lights are like the dawns which only
Seem bright to us and yet are not"...
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Peace.
Author: Henry Alford
Fri, Dec 9, 2011
Peace. By Henry Alford
"I have found Peace in the bright earth
And in the sunny sky:
By the low voice of summer seas,
And where streams murmur by"
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A little Snow was here and there
Author: Emily Dickinson
Thu, Dec 8, 2011
A little Snow was here and there by Emily Dickinson
"A little Snow was here and there
Disseminated in her Hair --
Since she and I had met and played
Decade had gathered to Decade"...
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Sway With Me
Author: Charles Bukowski
Wed, Dec 7, 2011
Sway With Me by Charles Bukowski
"sway with me, everything sad ?
madmen in stone houses
without doors,
lepers steaming love and song
frogs trying to figure
the sky"...
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First Lesson
Author: Phyllis McGinley
Tue, Dec 6, 2011
First Lesson by Phyllis McGinley
"The first thing to remember about fathers is, they're men.
A girl has to keep it in mind"...
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Evening In A Sugar Orchard
Author: Robert Frost
Mon, Dec 5, 2011
Evening In A Sugar Orchard by Robert Frost
"From where I lingered in a lull in march
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch"...
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All That's Past
Author: Walter de la Mare
Sun, Dec 4, 2011
All That's Past by Walter de la Mare
"Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs,
When March winds wake"...
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The Seeker
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Sat, Dec 3, 2011
The Seeker by Lucy Maud Montgomery
"I sought for my happiness over the world,
Oh, eager and far was my quest;
I sought it on mountain and desert and sea,
I asked it of east and of west"...
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While Yet These Tears
Author: Louise Labe
Fri, Dec 2, 2011
While Yet These Tears by Louise Labe
"While yet these tears have power to flow
For hours for ever past away;
While yet these swelling sighs allow
My faltering voice to breathe a lay"...
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Each Day A Life
Author: Robert William Service
Thu, Dec 1, 2011
Each Day A Life by Robert William Service
"I count each day a little life,
With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife
And keep it sane and sweet"...
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Dirge For A Joker
Author: Sylvia Plath
Wed, Nov 30, 2011
Dirge For A Joker by Sylvia Plath
"Always in the middle of a kiss
Came the profane stimulus to cough;
Always from the pulpit during service
Leaned the devil prompting you to laugh"...
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Politics
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
Politics by Ambrose Bierce
"That land full surely hastens to its end
Where public sycophants in homage bend"...
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Night
Author: Anne Bronte
Mon, Nov 28, 2011
Night by Anne Bronte
"I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes"...
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She Dried Her Tears
Author: Emily Bronte
Sun, Nov 27, 2011
She Dried Her Tears by Emily Bronte
"She dried her tears and they did smile
To see her cheeks' returning glow
How little dreaming all the while
That full heart throbbed to overflow"...
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The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm
Author: Wallace Stevens
Sat, Nov 26, 2011
The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm by Wallace Stevens
"The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night"...
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Bed in Summer
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Fri, Nov 25, 2011
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
"In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day"...
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A Thanksgiving Fable
Author: Oliver Herford
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
A Thanksgiving Fable
by Oliver Herford
"It was a hungry pussy cat,
upon Thanksgiving morn,
And she watched a thankful little mouse,
that ate an ear of corn"...
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Returning, We Hear the Larks
Author: Isaac Rosenberg
Wed, Nov 23, 2011
Returning, We Hear the Larks by Isaac Rosenberg
"Sombre the night is.
And though we have our lives, we know
What sinister threat lies there"...
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Into My Heart an Air that Kills
Author: A E Housman
Tue, Nov 22, 2011
Into My Heart an Air that Kills
by A E Housman
"Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those"...
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Pity The Moon
Author: Laura Benet
Mon, Nov 21, 2011
Pity The Moon by Laura Benet
"A withered crone is the moon to-night
Bent, unloved and proud,
Shuffling in the windy light
Through dipping vales of cloud"...
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The Great Figure
Author: William Carlos Williams
Sun, Nov 20, 2011
The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams
"Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city."
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The Things We Dare Not Tell
Author: Henry Lawson
Sat, Nov 19, 2011
The Things We Dare Not Tell by Henry Lawson
"The fields are fair in autumn yet, and the sun's still shining there,
But we bow our heads and we brood and fret, because of the masks we wear"...
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The Young Man?s Resolution
Author: Janet Little
Fri, Nov 18, 2011
The Young Man?s Resolution by Janet Little
"BY Cupid and Bacchus I'm sadly perplex'd,
Both parties to hear I incline:
The urchin for ever comments on this text,
Beware of the juice of the vine"...
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August
Author: Mary Oliver
Thu, Nov 17, 2011
August by Mary Oliver
"When the blackberries hang
swollen in the woods, in the brambles
nobody owns, I spend
all day among the high
branches, reaching"...
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The Three Drinkers
Author: Robert Graves
Wed, Nov 16, 2011
The Three Drinkers by Robert Graves
"Blacksmith Green had three strong sons,
With bread and beef did fill 'em,
Now John and Ned are perished and dead,
But plenty remains of William"...
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The Skyscraper Loves Night
Author: Carl Sandburg
Tue, Nov 15, 2011
The Skyscraper Loves Night by Carl Sandburg
"ONE by one lights of a skyscraper fling their checkering cross work on the velvet gown of night"...
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On Such a Day
Author: Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Mon, Nov 14, 2011
On Such a Day by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
"Some hang above the tombs,
Some weep in empty rooms,
I, when the iris blooms,
Remember"...
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Prelude
Author: Richard Aldington
Sun, Nov 13, 2011
Prelude by Richard Aldington
"How could I love you more?
I would give up
Even that beauty I have loved too well
That I might love you better.
Alas, how poor the gifts that lovers give"...
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Not From This Anger
Author: Dylan Thomas
Sat, Nov 12, 2011
Not From This Anger by Dylan Thomas
"Not from this anger, anticlimax after
Refusal struck her loin and the lame flower
Bent like a beast to lap the singular floods
In a land strapped by hunger"...
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Denial
Author: Margaret Widdemer
Fri, Nov 11, 2011
Denial by Margaret Widdemer
"IT never would have hurt God
To have made the world today
So that your footsteps turned my way"...
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Let Us Have Madness
Author: Kenneth Patchen
Thu, Nov 10, 2011
Let Us Have Madness by Kenneth Patchen
"Let us have madness openly.
O men Of my generation.
Let us follow
The footsteps of this slaughtered age:
See it trail across Time's dim land
Into the closed house of eternity"...
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A Lament
Author: Oscar Wilde
Wed, Nov 9, 2011
A Lament by Oscar Wilde
"O well for him who lives at ease
With garnered gold in wide domain,
Nor heeds the splashing of the rain,
The crashing down of forest trees."...
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Overcast
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Tue, Nov 8, 2011
Overcast by Charles Baudelaire
"Are they blue, gray or green? Mysterious eyes
(as if in fact you were looking through a mist)
in alternation tender, dreamy, grim
to match the shiftless pallor of the sky"...
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Evening
Author: Charlotte Smith
Mon, Nov 7, 2011
Evening by Charlotte Smith
"OH ! soothing hour, when glowing day,
Low in the western wave declines,
And village murmurs die away,
And bright the vesper planet shines"...
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Recovery
Author: A. R. Ammons
Sun, Nov 6, 2011
Recovery by A. R. Ammons
"All afternoon
the tree shadows, accelerating,
lengthened
till
sunset
shot them black into infinity:
next morning
darkness
returned from the other
infinity and the
shadows caught ground
and through the morning, slowing,
hardened into noon."
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