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Monthly Archives: June 2008

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To Sea! To Sea!
by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
To sea, to sea! The calm is o

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A Scrap of Paper
by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929)
Just a little scrap of paper
In a yellow envelope,
And the whole world is a ruin,
Even Hope.

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The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child

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To Everlasting Oblivion
by John Marston (1576-1634)
Thou mighty gulf, insatiate cormorant,
Deride me not, though I seem petulant
To fall into thy chops. Let others pray
Forever their fair poems flourish may.
But as for me, hungry Oblivion,
Devour me quick. Accept my orison,
My earnest prayers which do importune thee,
With gloomy shade of thy still empery
To veil both me and my [...]

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Freedom
by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
Freedom, as every schoolboy knows,
Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell;
On every wind, indeed, that blows
I hear her yell.
She screams whenever monarchs meet,
And parliaments as well,
To bind the chains about her feet
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From the Flats
by Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
What heartache

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Le caf

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Upon a Dead Man

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Life! I Know Not What Thou Art
by Anna L

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The House by the Side of the Road
by Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze the paths
Where highways never ran