Friday, February 29, 2008
On Clergymen Preaching Politics
by John Byrom (1692-1763)
Indeed, Sir Peter, I could wish, I own,
That parsons would let politics alone;
Plead, if they will, the customary plea,
For such like talk, when o
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Railroad
by Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860)
Why! why to yon arch do the people drift;
Like a sea hurrying in to a cavern
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Builders
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.
Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.
For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled;
Our to-days and yesterdays
Are [...]
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Mental Gas
by Eliza Roxcy Snow (1804-1887)
Charles to his teacher
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
The Little White Hearse
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
Somebody
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
A Last Word
by Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Let us go hence
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Love Is Not All
by Edna St. Vicent Millay (1892-1950)
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the [...]
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Work Without Hope
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
I Would Fain Die a Dry Death
by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The American public is patient,
The American public is slow,
The American public will stand as much
As any public I know.
We submit to be killed by our railroads,
We submit to be fooled by our press,
We can stand [...]
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