The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
by Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
The time I’ve lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing
The light, that lies
In woman’s eyes,
Has been my heart’s undoing.
Though Wisdom oft has sought me,
I scorn’d the lore she brought me,
My only books
Were woman’s looks,
And folly’s all they’ve taught me.
Her smile when Beauty granted,
I hung with gaze enchanted,
Like him, [...]
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Requiescat
by Edmund Vance Cooke (1866-1932)
The man who fears to go his way alone,
But follows where the greater number tread,
Should hasten to his rest beneath a stone;
The great majority of men are dead.
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Richard Cory
by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.
And he [...]
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Lycidas
by John Milton (1608-1674)
In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Sea, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their height.
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Sex
by Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
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A Girl Strike-Leader
by Florence Kiper Frank (1885-1976)
A white-face, stubborn little thing
Whose years are not quite twenty years,
Eyes steely now and done with tears,
Mouth scornful of its suffering
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Westminster Abbey
by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Bring me my dead!
To me that have grown
Stone laid upon stone,
As the stormy brood
Of English blood
Has waxed and spread
And filled the world,
With sails unfurled;
With men that may not lie;
With thoughts that cannot die.
Bring me my dead!
Into the storied hall,
Where I have garnered all
My harvest without weed;
My chosen fruits of seed;
And [...]
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President Bush and other conservatives charge that gay marriage “redefines” marriage. True enough, but the notion that marriage has always been fixed is false. Marriage has always been changing.
Consider William Blackstone, whose “Commentaries on the Laws of England” (1765) defined English and American common law for nearly a century. For Blackstone the essence of marriage [...]
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Life in a Love
by Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Escape me?
Never
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Love in a Life
by Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her
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