Saturday, October 20, 2007
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Afternoon on a Hill
by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And [...]
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Castles in the Air
by Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
My thoughts by night are often filled
With visions false as fair:
For in the past alone I build
My castles in the air.
I dwell not now on what may be:
Night shadows o
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Song of the Shirt
by Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katy
by Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
Now wat ye wha I met yestreen
Coming down the street, my Jo,
My mistress in her tartan screen,
Fow bonny, braw and sweet, my Jo.
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the Cambridge ladies
by e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds
(also, with the church
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
To Corinna
by Robert Nugent (1702-1788)
While I those hard commands obey,
Which tear me from thee far away;
Never did yet love-tortur
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“Segadores, afuera, afuera”
by Tirso de Molina (1571?-1648)
Segadores, afuera, afuera:
dejen llegar a la espigaderuela.
Si en las manos que bendigo
fuera yo espiga de trigo
que me hiciera harina digo
y luego torta o bondigo,
porque luego me comiera.
Segadores, afuera, afuera:
dejen llegar a la espigaderuela.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Auf seinen Geburtstag
by Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664)
(today is his birthday)
Da
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