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Monthly Archives: February 2008

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The Factory Girl
by John Arthur Phillips (1842-1907)
She wasn

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The Lip and the Heart
by John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
One day between the Lip and the Heart
A wordless strife arose,
Which was expertest in the art
His purpose to disclose.
The Lip called forth the vassal Tongue,
And made him vouch

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Morphine
by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Gro

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A Description of the Morning
by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Now hardly here and there a hackney-coach
Appearing, showed the ruddy morn

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There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind
by Thomas Ford (1580?-1648)
There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never a face so pleas

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On the Massacre of Glencoe
by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

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Follow Thy Fair Sun
by Thomas Campion (1567-1630)
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow,
Though thou be black as night
And she made all of light,
Yet follow thy fair sun unhappy shadow.
Follow her whose light thy light depriveth,
Though here thou liv

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Dead Love
by Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862)
Oh never weep for love that

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Why So Pale and Wan
by John Suckling (1609-1642)
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can