Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Young Author
by Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
When first the peasant, long inclin
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Ulysses
by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole,
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. [...]
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
To a Dead Crow
by Kasiprasad Ghose (1809-1873)
Gay minstrel of the Indian clime!
How oft at morning
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Disorder
by Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932)
My life is governed by the clock,
All duly mapped and plotted;
And only with a nervous shock
I miss the time allotted.
My course without has always been
Set straight to hedge and border;
But I confess that all within
Is vast and vague disorder.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness
by John Donne (1572-1631)
Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be made thy music; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
And [...]
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Theophile Gautier
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Pour mettre une couronne au front d
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Two in the Campagna
by Robert Browning (1612-1889)
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I wonder do you feel to-day
As I have felt since, hand in hand,
We sat down on the grass, to stray
In spirit better through the [...]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Cruelty and Love
by D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
What large, dark hands are those at the window
Lifted, grasping in the yellow light
Which makes its way through the curtain web
At my heart to-night?
Ah, only the leaves! So leave me at rest,
In the west I see a redness come
Over the evening
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