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Laughing Rose
Author: William Henry Davies
Sat, May 26, 2012
Laughing Rose by William Henry Davies
"If I were gusty April now,
How I would blow at laughing Rose;
I'd make her ribbons slip their knots,
And all her hair come loose"...
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Alone
Author: Maya Angelou
Fri, May 25, 2012
Alone by Maya Angelou
"Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone"...
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Autumn Fires
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Thu, May 24, 2012
Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson
"In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail"...
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In Time Of Silver Rain
Author: Langston Hughes
Wed, May 23, 2012
In Time Of Silver Rain by Langston Hughes
"In time of silver rain
The earth puts forth new life again,
Green grasses grow
And flowers lift their heads,
And over all the plain
The wonder spreads"...
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Nightfall
Author: Marietta Holley
Tue, May 22, 2012
Nightfall by Marietta Holley
"Soft o'er the meadow, and murmuring mere,
Falleth a shadow, near and more near;
Day like a white dove floats down the sky,
Cometh the night, love, darkness is nigh"...
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In The Forest
Author: Oscar Wilde
Mon, May 21, 2012
In The Forest by Oscar Wilde
"Out of the mid-wood's twilight
Into the meadow's dawn,
Ivory limbed and brown-eyed,
Flashes my Faun"...
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Let Evening Come
Author: Jane Kenyon
Sun, May 20, 2012
Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon
" Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down"...
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The Twilight Turns
Author: James Joyce
Sat, May 19, 2012
The Twilight Turns by James Joyce
"The twilight turns from amethyst
To deep and deeper blue,
The lamp fills with a pale green glow
The trees of the avenue"...
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Green Rain
Author: Mary Webb
Fri, May 18, 2012
Green Rain by Mary Webb
"Into the scented woods we'll go
And see the blackthorn swim in snow.
High above, in the budding leaves,
A brooding dove awakes and grieves"...
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The Rambler
Author: Thomas Hardy
Thu, May 17, 2012
The Rambler by Thomas Hardy
"I do not see the hills around,
Nor mark the tints the copses wear;
I do not note the grassy ground
And constellated daisies there"...
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The Retreat
Author: Charles Bukowski
Wed, May 16, 2012
The Retreat by Charles Bukowski
"this time has finished me.
I feel like the German troops
whipped by snow and the communists
walking bent
with newspapers stuffed into
worn boots"...
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The Minstrel?s Grave
Author: Frances Anne Kemble
Tue, May 15, 2012
The Minstrel?s Grave
by Frances Anne Kemble
"Oh let it be where the waters are meeting,
In one crystal sheet, like the summer's sky bright!
Oh let it be where the sun, when retreating,
May throw the last glance of his vanishing light"...
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My Daughter and Apple Pie
Author: Raymond Carver
Mon, May 14, 2012
My Daughter and Apple Pie
by Raymond Carver
"She serves me a piece of it a few minutes
out of the oven. A little steam rises
from the slits on top. Sugar and spice -
cinnamon - burned into the crust"...
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The Crescent Moon
Author: Amy Lowell
Sun, May 13, 2012
The Crescent Moon by Amy Lowell
"Slipping softly through the sky
Little horned, happy moon,
Can you hear me up so high?
Will you come down soon"...
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Bowery Blues
Author: Jack Kerouac
Sat, May 12, 2012
Bowery Blues by Kerouac Jack
"The story of man
Makes me sick
Inside, outside,
I don't know why
Something so conditional
And all talk
Should hurt me so"...
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Marriage Bells
Author: Emma Lazarus
Fri, May 11, 2012
Marriage Bells by Emma Lazarus
"Music and silver chimes and sunlit air,
Freighted with the scent of honeyed orange-flower;
Glad, friendly festal faces everywhere.
She, rapt from all in this unearthly hour"...
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Eulalie
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Thu, May 10, 2012
Eulalie by Edgar Allan Poe
"I dwelt alone
In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride-
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride"...
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All That's Not Love . . .
Author: Alan Seeger
Wed, May 9, 2012
All That's Not Love . . . by Alan Seeger
"All that's not love is the dearth of my days,
The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit,
The temple in times without prayer, without praise,
The altar unset and the candle unlit"...
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A Song About Singing
Author: Anne Reeve Aldrich
Tue, May 8, 2012
A Song About Singing by Anne Reeve Aldrich
"O nightingale, the poet's bird,
A kinsman dear thou art,
Who never sings so well as when
The rose-thorns bruise his heart"...
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Carrier Letter
Author: Hart Crane
Mon, May 7, 2012
Carrier Letter by Hart Crane
"My hands have not touched water since your hands, -
No; - nor my lips freed laughter since 'farewell"'...
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Coda
Author: Dorothy Parker
Sun, May 6, 2012
Coda by Dorothy Parker
"There's little in taking or giving,
There's little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine"...
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Rapids
Author: A. R. Ammons
Sat, May 5, 2012
Rapids by A. R. Ammons
"Fall's leaves are redder than
spring's flowers, have no pollen,
and also sometimes fly, as the wind"...
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Yes And No
Author: Laura Riding Jackson
Fri, May 4, 2012
Yes And No by Laura Riding Jackson
"Across a continent imaginary
Because it cannot be discovered now
Upon this fully apprehended planet?
No more applicants considered,
Alas, alas"...
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it is at moments after I have dreamed
Author: E. E. Cummings
Thu, May 3, 2012
it is at moments after I have dreamed by E. E. Cummings
" it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eyes,
when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed
with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise"...
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Send Round the Hat
Author: Henry Lawson
Wed, May 2, 2012
Send Round the Hat by Henry Lawson
"Now this is the creed from the Book of the Bush ?
Should be simple and plain to a dunce"...
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The Lower Room
Author: Edith Nesbit
Tue, May 1, 2012
The Lower Room by Edith Nesbit
"How soft the lamplight falls
On pictures, books,
And pleasant coloured walls
And curtains drawn"...
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The Ship Of Earth
Author: Sidney Lanier
Mon, Apr 30, 2012
The Ship Of Earth. By Sidney Lanier
"Thou Ship of Earth, with Death, and Birth, and Life, and Sex aboard,
And fires of Desires burning hotly in the hold"...
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Absence
Author: Elizabeth Jennings
Sun, Apr 29, 2012
Absence by Elizabeth Jennings
"I visited the place where we last met.
Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended,
The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet;
There was no sign that anything had ended
And nothing to instruct me to forget"...
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On Looking for Models
Author: Alan Dugan
Sat, Apr 28, 2012
On Looking for Models by Alan Dugan
"The trees in time
have something else to do
besides their treeing. What is it.
I'm a starving to death
man myself, and thirsty, thirsty
by their fountains but I cannot drink
their mud and sunlight to be whole"...
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In A Northern Wood
Author: Katharine Lee Bates
Fri, Apr 27, 2012
In A Northern Wood by Katharine Lee Bates
"Fragrant are the cedar-boughs stretching green and level,
Feasting-halls where waxwings flit at their spicy revel"...
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Freedom
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Thu, Apr 26, 2012
Freedom by Ambrose Bierce
"Freedom, as every schoolboy knows,
Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell;
On every wind, indeed, that blows
I hear her yell"...
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A Map Of Love
Author: Donald Justice
Wed, Apr 25, 2012
A Map Of Love by Donald Justice
"Your face more than others' faces
Maps the half-remembered places
I have come to I while I slept"...
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If I Had Known
Author: Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Tue, Apr 24, 2012
If I Had Known by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
"If I had known
Two years ago how drear this life should be,
And crowd upon itself all strangely sad,
Mayhap another song would burst from out my lips"...
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The Columbine
Author: Michael Earls
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
The Columbine by Michael Earls
"Gray lonely rocks about thee stand,
Ignored of sun and dew,
Yet is thy breath upon the land,
To thy vocation true"...
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More Than Myself
Author: Anne Sexton
Sun, Apr 22, 2012
More Than Myself by Anne Sexton
"Not that it was beautiful,
but that, in the end, there was
a certain sense of order there"...
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A Spell Before Winter
Author: Howard Nemerov
Sat, Apr 21, 2012
A Spell Before Winter by Howard Nemerov
"After the red leaf and the gold have gone,
Brought down by the wind, then by hammering rain"...
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Author: Adrienne Rich
Fri, Apr 20, 2012
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Rich
"Aunt Jennifer?s tigers prance across a screen,?
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green"...
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The Sloth
Author: Theodore Roethke
Thu, Apr 19, 2012
The Sloth by Theodore Roethke
"In moving-slow he has no Peer.
You ask him something in his Ear,
He thinks about it for a Year"...
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The Pond At Dusk
Author: Jane Kenyon
Wed, Apr 18, 2012
The Pond At Dusk by Jane Kenyon
"A fly wounds the water but the wound
soon heals. Swallows tilt and twitter
overhead, dropping now and then toward
the outward-radiating evidence of food"...
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Come My Cantilations
Author: Ezra Pound
Tue, Apr 17, 2012
Come My Cantilations by Ezra Pound
"Come my cantilations,
Let us dump our hatreds into one bunch and be done with them"...
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One Worse Thing
Author: Margaret Widdemer
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
One Worse Thing by Margaret Widdemer
"Last Spring I walked these ways, and a sharp grief walked with me,
For you had broken my heart with a light kiss, carelessly"...
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Forth went the candid man
Author: Stephen Crane
Sun, Apr 15, 2012
Forth went the candid man by Stephen Crane
"Forth went the candid man
And spoke freely to the wind --
When he looked about him he was in a far strange country"...
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Harvest
Author: Kathleen Raine
Sat, Apr 14, 2012
Harvest by Kathleen Raine
"Day is the hero's shield,
Achilles' field,
The light days are the angels.
We the seed"...
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Fear Is What Quickens Me
Author: James Wright
Fri, Apr 13, 2012
Fear Is What Quickens Me by James Wright
"Many animals that our fathers killed in America
Had quick eyes.
They stared about wildly,
When the moon went dark"...
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Dream Land
Author: Christina Rossetti
Thu, Apr 12, 2012
Dream Land by Christina Rossetti
"Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves into the deep,
She sleeps a charmed sleep:
Awake her not.
Led by a single star,
She came from very far
To seek where shadows are
Her pleasant lot"...
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Out Of The Night That Covers Me
Author: William Ernest Henley
Wed, Apr 11, 2012
Out Of The Night That Covers Me
By William Ernest Henley
"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul"...
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A Wounded Deer
Author: Emily Dickinson
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
A Wounded Deer by Emily Dickinson
"A Wounded Deer ? leaps highest ?
I've heard the Hunter tell ?
'Tis but the Ecstasy of death ?
And then the Brake is still"...
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When First We Faced, And Touching Showed
Author: Philip Larkin
Mon, Apr 9, 2012
When First We Faced, And Touching Showed by Philip Larkin
"When first we faced, and touching showed
How well we knew the early moves"...
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Late Evening Song
Author: Weldon Kees
Sun, Apr 8, 2012
Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
"For a while
Let it be enough:
The responsive smile,
Though effort goes into it"...
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Happiness
Author: Carl Sandburg
Sat, Apr 7, 2012
Happiness by Carl Sandburg
"I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of
thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though
I was trying to fool with them"...
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Nahant
Author: Sara Teasdale
Fri, Apr 6, 2012
Nahant by Sara Teasdale
"Bowed as an elm under the weight of its beauty,
So earth is bowed, under her weight of splendor"...
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Losing Track
Author: Denise Levertov
Thu, Apr 5, 2012
Losing Track by Denise Levertov
"Long after you have swung back
away from me
I think you are still with me"...
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The Hope Of The Resurrection
Author: Vachel Lindsay
Wed, Apr 4, 2012
The Hope Of The Resurrection
by Vachel Lindsay
"Though I have watched so many mourners weep
O'er the real dead, in dull earth laid asleep?
Those dead seemed but the shadows of my days"...
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Creed
Author: Gabriela Mistral
Tue, Apr 3, 2012
Creed by Gabriela Mistral
"I believe in my heart that when
The wounded heart sunk within the depth of God sings
It rises from the pond alive
As if new-born"...
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The Night In Isla Negra
Author: Pablo Neruda
Mon, Apr 2, 2012
The Night In Isla Negra by Pablo Neruda
"Ancient night and the unruly salt
beat at the walls of my house.
The shadow is all one, the sky
throbs now along with the ocean"...
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When I'm Killed
Author: Robert Graves
Sun, Apr 1, 2012
When I'm Killed by Robert Graves
"When I?m killed, don?t think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion think of me
With the Intolerable Good"...
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There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods
Author: Lord Byron
Fri, Mar 30, 2012
There Is Pleasure In The Pathless Woods
by Lord Byron
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar"...
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The Enemies
Author: Elizabeth Jennings
Thu, Mar 29, 2012
The Enemies by Elizabeth Jennings
"Last night they came across the river and
Entered the city. Women were awake
With lights and food. They entertained the band,
Not asking what the men had come to take"...
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When I Was One-and-Twenty
Author: A. E. Housman
Wed, Mar 28, 2012
When I Was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman
"When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away"...
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Five Flights Up
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Tue, Mar 27, 2012
Five Flights Up by Elizabeth Bishop
"Still dark.
The unknown bird sits on his usual branch.
The little dog next door barks in his sleep
inquiringly, just once"...
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In the Trenches
Author: Isaac Rosenberg
Mon, Mar 26, 2012
In the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
"I snatched two poppies
From the parapet?s ledge,
Two bright red poppies
That winked on the ledge"...
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The Night I Was Going To Die
Author: Charles Bukowski
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
The Night I Was Going To Die by Charles Bukowski
"the night I was going to die
I was sweating on the bed
and I could hear the crickets
and there was a cat fight outside"...
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The Alchemist
Author: Louise Bogan
Sat, Mar 24, 2012
The Alchemist by Louise Bogan
"I burned my life, that I may find
A passion wholly of the mind,
Thought divorced from eye and bone
Ecstasy come to breath alone"...
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A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty
Author: Ogden Nash
Fri, Mar 23, 2012
A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty by Ogden Nash
"Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
Feels the sun with terror,
One unwilling step she takes,
Shuddering to the mirror"...
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A Fallen Leaf
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thu, Mar 22, 2012
A Fallen Leaf by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"A trusting little leaf of green,
A bold audacious frost;
A rendezvous, a kiss or two,
And youth for ever lost"...
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Tree At My Window
Author: Robert Frost
Wed, Mar 21, 2012
Tree At My Window by Robert Frost
"Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me"...
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The Village Green
Author: Jane Taylor
Tue, Mar 20, 2012
The Village Green by Jane Taylor
"Skirted round with houses small,
All the boys and girls are seen,
Playing there with hoop and ball"...
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Liberty
Author: Archibald MacLeish
Mon, Mar 19, 2012
Liberty by Archibald MacLeish
"When liberty is headlong girl
And runs her roads and wends her ways
Liberty will shriek and whirl
Her showery torch to see it blaze"...
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My Kingdom
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Sun, Mar 18, 2012
My Kingdom by Louisa May Alcott
"A little kingdom I possess
where thoughts and feelings dwell,
And very hard I find the task
of governing it well"...
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Nantucket
Author: William Carlos Williams
Sat, Mar 17, 2012
Nantucket by William Carlos Williams
"Flowers through the window
lavender and yellow
changed by white curtains?
Smell of cleanliness"...
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The Balance Wheel
Author: Anne Sexton
Fri, Mar 16, 2012
The Balance Wheel by Anne Sexton
"Where I waved at the sky
And waited your love through a February sleep,
I saw birds swinging in, watched them multiply"...
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Continual Conversation With A Silent Man
Author: Wallace Stevens
Thu, Mar 15, 2012
Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens
"The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die--
The broken cartwheel on the hill"...
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The Uncertainty Of Happiness
Author: Susannah Hawkins
Wed, Mar 14, 2012
The Uncertainty Of Happiness
by Susannah Hawkins
"O! I have seen the morning sun,
Adorn the rising day;
Then I have seen a dark'ning cloud
O'ershed his golden ray"...
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A Fickle Woman
Author: Eugene Field
Tue, Mar 13, 2012
A Fickle Woman by Eugene Field
"Her nature is the sea's, that smiles to-night
A radiant maiden in the moon's soft light"...
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Love And The Butterfly
Author: Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
Love And The Butterfly
By Alice Dunbar-Nelson
"I heard a merry voice one day
And glancing at my side,
Fair Love, all breathless, flushed with play,
A butterfly did ride"...
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Traveling Through The Dark
Author: William Stafford
Sun, Mar 11, 2012
Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford
"Traveling through the dark I found a deer
dead on the edge of the Wilson River road.
It is usually best to roll them into the canyon:
that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead"...
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To You
Author: Walt Whitman
Sat, Mar 10, 2012
To You. by Walt Whitman
"Let us twain walk aside from the rest;
Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,
Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none?Tell me the whole story,
Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband, or physician."
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My Youth
Author: William Henry Davies
Fri, Mar 9, 2012
My Youth by William Henry Davies
"My youth was my old age,
Weary and long;
It had too many cares
To think of song"...
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A Little Boy's Dream
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Thu, Mar 8, 2012
A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield
"To and fro, to and fro
In my little boat I go
Sailing far across the sea
All alone, just little me.
And the sea is big and strong
And the journey very long"...
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As I Grew Older
Author: Langston Hughes
Wed, Mar 7, 2012
As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes
"It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun?
My dream"...
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Who Said That Love Was Fire?
Author: Patience Worth
Tue, Mar 6, 2012
Who Said That Love Was Fire?
By Patience Worth
"Who said that love was fire?
I know that love is ash.
It is the thing which remains
When the fire is spent,
The holy essence of experience."
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Vision
Author: Aldous Huxley
Mon, Mar 5, 2012
Vision by Aldous Huxley
"I had been sitting alone with books,
Till doubt was a black disease,
When I heard the cheerful shout of rooks
In the bare, prophetic trees"...
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Interior
Author: Hart Crane
Sun, Mar 4, 2012
Interior by Hart Crane
"It sheds a shy solemnity,
This lamp in our poor room.
O grey and gold amenity, --
Silence and gentle gloom"...
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The Reason
Author: Stevie Smith
Sat, Mar 3, 2012
The Reason by Stevie Smith
"My life is vile
I hate it so
I'll wait awhile
And then I'll go"...
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A Worshipper
Author: Cicely Fox Smith
Fri, Mar 2, 2012
A Worshipper by Cicely Fox Smith
"Against the oaken pew he leant,
A child of summers three or four,
And smiled to see each stained-glass saint
Cast by the sunlight on the floor"...
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The Voice
Author: Thomas Hardy
Thu, Mar 1, 2012
The Voice by Thomas Hardy
"Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
Saying that now you are not as you were
When you had changed from the one who was all to me,
But as at first, when our day was fair"...
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New-Born
Author: Harriet Monroe
Wed, Feb 29, 2012
New-Born by Harriet Monroe
"She is so wee,
So wise and dear
Her eyes can see,
Her ears can hear,
The flowers that grow
Below the snow"...
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Minuscule Things
Author: William Matthews
Tue, Feb 28, 2012
Minuscule Things by William Matthews
"There?s a crack in this glass so fine we can?t see it,
and in the blue eye of the candleflame?s needle"...
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Otherwise
Author: Jane Kenyon
Mon, Feb 27, 2012
Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
"I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise"...
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Give Me a Doctor
Author: W. H. Auden
Sun, Feb 26, 2012
Give Me a Doctor by W. H. Auden
"Give me a doctor partridge-plump,
Short in the leg and broad in the rump,
An endomorph with gentle hands
Who'll never make absurd demands
That I abandon all my vices"...
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This Morning
Author: Raymond Carver
Sat, Feb 25, 2012
This Morning by Raymond Carver
"This morning was something. A little snow
lay on the ground. The sun floated in a clear
blue sky. The sea was blue, and blue-green,
as far as the eye could see"...
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The Reward
Author: James Weldon Johnson
Fri, Feb 24, 2012
The Reward by James Weldon Johnson
"No greater earthly boon than this I crave,
That those who some day gather 'round my grave"
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Petals
Author: Amy Lowell
Thu, Feb 23, 2012
Petals by Amy Lowell
"Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start"...
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Homes
Author: Margaret Widdemer
Wed, Feb 22, 2012
Homes by Margaret Widdemer
"The lamplight's shaded rose
On couch and chair and wall,
The drowsy book let fall,
The children's heads, bent close"...
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Poetic Eggs
Author: Ezra Pound
Tue, Feb 21, 2012
Poetic Eggs by Ezra Pound
"I am a grave poetic hen
That lays poetic eggs
And to enhance my temperament
A little quiet begs"...
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Fall of the Evening Star
Author: Kenneth Patchen
Mon, Feb 20, 2012
Fall of the Evening Star by Kenneth Patchen
"Speak softly; sun going down
Out of sight. Come near me now"...
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Does It Pay?
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Sun, Feb 19, 2012
Does It Pay? by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"If one poor burdened toiler o?er life?s road,
Who meets us by the way,
Goes on less conscious of his galling load,
Then life, indeed, does pay"...
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Those Two
Author: Allen Ginsberg
Sat, Feb 18, 2012
Those Two by Allen Ginsberg
'That tree said
I don't like that white car under me,
it smells gasoline
That other tree next to it said
O you're always complaining
you're a neurotic
you can see by the way you're bent over."
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Ebb
Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Fri, Feb 17, 2012
Ebb by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool"...
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First Day at School
Author: Roger McGough
Thu, Feb 16, 2012
First Day at School by Roger McGough
"A millionbillionwillion miles from home
Waiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)
Why are they all so big, other children"...
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