Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Circe
by Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
It was easy enough
to bend them to my wish,
it was easy enough
to alter them with a touch,
but you
adrift on the great sea,
how shall I call you back?
Cedar and white ash,
rock-cedar and sand plants
and tamarisk
red cedar and white cedar
and black cedar from the inmost forest,
fragrance upon fragrance
and all of my sea-magic is for [...]
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Amaze
by Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Everyone Sang
by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
Winging wildly across the white
Orchards and dark-green fields; on
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Written on a Wall at Woodstock
by Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
Oh fortune, thy wresting wavering state
Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit,
Whose witness this present prison late
Could bear, where once was joy
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
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Friday, September 5, 2008
Puer Stans ad Mensam
by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)
Attend my words, my gentle knave,
And you shall learn from me
How boys at dinner may behave
With due propriety.
Guard well your hands: two things have been
Unfitly used by some;
The trencher for a tambourine,
The table for a drum.
We [...]
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
When Lovely Woman
by Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)
When lovely woman wants a favor,
And finds, too late, that man won
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and [...]
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A Song
by William Somerville (1675-1742)
As o
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Anthony Findlay
by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
Both for the country and for the man,
And for a country as well as a man,
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