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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The Triumph of Life
by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
A great poem, put behind a cut because of its length. It was left unfinished at Shelley

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Monday, July 7, 2008
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Sunday, July 6, 2008

To His Mistress
by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
Why dost thou shade thy lovely face? O why
Does that eclipsing hand of thine deny
The sunshine of the Sun

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Looking Forward
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
When I am grown to man

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Friday, July 4, 2008

My Low and Humble Home
by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
I left my low and humble home,
Far from my Father

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

On Michael Angelo

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Wi

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

The Land God Forgot
by Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lordly mountains soar in scorn
As still as death, as stern as fate.
The lonely sunsets flame and die;
The giant valleys gulp the night;
The monster mountains scrape the sky,
Where eager [...]

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