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Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Tame Cat
by Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972)

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Abend
by Johann Georg Jacobi (1740-1814)
Komm, Liebchen, es neigen
Die W

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In der Fremde
by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Ich hatte einst ein sch

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Stanzas on Drachenfels (excerpted from Childe Harold

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

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Anthony and Cleopatra
by William Haines Lytle (1826-1863)
I am dying, Egypt, dying.
Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast,
And the dark Plutonian shadows
Gather on the evening blast;
Let thine arms, O Queen, enfold me,
Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear;
Listen to the [...]

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North Wind in October
by Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
In the golden glade the chestnuts are fallen all;
From the sered boughs of the oak the acorns fall:
The beech scatters her ruddy fire;
The lime hath stripped to the cold,
And standeth naked above her yellow attire:
The larch thinneth her spire
To lay the ways of the wood with cloth of gold.
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The Eolian Harp
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined
Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is
To sit beside our Cot, our Cot o