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Monthly Archives: June 2007

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Expes
By John Swinnerton Phillimore (1873-1926)
Why sing of suns you cannot see, in vain?

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Missing

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An Evening Contemplation in a College
by John Duncombe (1729-1786)
A Parody of Gray

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To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady

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The Mathematician in Love
By William J. Macquorn Rankine (1820-1872)
A mathematician fell madly in love
With a lady, young, handsome, and charming:
By angles and ratios harmonic he strove
Her curves and proportions all faultless to prove.
As he scrawled hieroglyphics alarming.
He measured with care, from the ends of a base,
The [...]

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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan

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Le troisi

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Hertha
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
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