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Monthly Archives: December 2007
poem of the day
Sunday, December 9, 2007
At a Solemn Musick
by John Milton (1608-1674)
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav
poem of the day
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Madness
by Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
(For Sara Teasdale)
The lonely farm, the crowded street,
The palace and the slum,
Give welcome to my silent feet
As, bearing gifts, I come.
Last night a beggar crouched alone,
A ragged helpless thing;
I set him on a moonbeam throne
poem of the day
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
At Home
by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange boughs;
From hand to hand they pushed the wine,
They sucked the pulp of plum and peach;
They sang, they jested, and they [...]
poem of the day
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Hypocrisy
by Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Hypocrisy will serve as well
To propogate a church as zeal;
As persecution and promotion
Do equally advance devotion:
So round white stones will serve, they say,
As well as eggs to make hens lay.
poem of the day
Monday, December 3, 2007
Requiem
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
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poem of the day
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Song Before Death
by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
(From the French)
1795
Sweet mother, in a minute