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Monthly Archives: August 2008

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Upon Time and Eternity
by John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Eternity is like unto a Ring.
Time, like to Measure, doth it self extend;
Measure commences, is a finite thing.
The Ring has no beginning, middle, end.

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The Emulation
by Sarah Fyge (1670-1723)
Say, Tyrant Custom, why must we obey
The impositions of thy haughty Sway;
From the first dawn of Life, unto the Grave,
Poor Womankind

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A Summer Day
by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
Love from the mountains led his sheep,
Once, on a summer day,
Into a valley green and deep,
Under rock-ramparts gray;
Sat on a stone where the waters run
Rippling the hours away,
Touched his lute in the light of the sun,

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Address to a Haggis
by Robert Burns (1759-1796)
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Fair fa

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Brahma no piensa
by Amado Nervo (1870-1919)
Ego sum quo sum
Brahma no piensa: pensar limita.
Brahma no es bueno ni malo, pues
las cualidades en su infinita
substancia huelgan. Brahma es lo que es.
Brahma, en un

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Le pont Mirabeau
by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu

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Der Mond
by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
Und gr

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The Argument of his Book
by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
I sing of Brooks, of Blossomes, Birds, and Bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July-Flowers.
I sing of May-poles, Hock-carts, Wassails, Wakes,
Of Bride-grooms, Brides, and of their Bridall-cakes.
I write of Youth, of Love, and have Accesse
By these, to sing of cleanly-Wantonnesse.
I sing of Dewes, of Raines, and piece by [...]

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Before
by William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
Behold me waiting

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Twilight at Sea
by Amelia B. Welby (1819-1852)
The twilight hours, like birds, flew by
As lightly and as free,
Ten thousand stars were in the sky,
Ten thousand on the sea;
For every wave, with dimpled face,
That leaped upon the air,
Had caught a star in its embrace,
And held [...]