Sunday, November 30, 2008
A Description of a City Shower
by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Careful observers may foretell the hour,
(By sure prognostics,) when to dread a shower.
While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o
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Friday, November 28, 2008
The Lamb
by William Blake (1757-1827)
Little Lamb, who made thee?
Dost thou know who made thee?
Gave thee life & bid thee feed
By the stream & o
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
The Private of the Buffs
by Francis Hasting Doyle (1810-1888)
Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
In the Woods
by Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Let me carve my fantasy
Of this web like broken glass
Gleaming through the fretted leaves
In a quaint intimacy
Diamond tipping all the grass.
Hearken as the spirit heaves
Through the branches and the leaves
In the shudder of their pulse.
Delicate nature trembles so
To a ruder nature
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Monday, November 24, 2008
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Count That Day Lost
by George Eliot (1819-1880)
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went
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Friday, November 21, 2008
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
by Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
In Virgyn
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Upon a Quiet Conscience
attributed to Charles I (1600-1649)
Close thine eyes and sleep secure,
Thy soul is safe, thy body sure:
He that guards thee, He thee keeps,
Who never slumbers, never sleeps.
A quiet conscience in a quiet breast
Has only peace, has only rest.
The music and the mirth of Kings
Are out of tune unless she sings.
Then close thine eyes [...]
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