Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was specter-gray,
And Winter
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
La divina Provvidenza
by Vincenzo da Filicaja (1642-1707)
Qual Madre i Figli con pietoso affetto
Mira, e d
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Monday, December 29, 2008
The Irresponsive Land
by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
The irresponsive silence of the land,
The irresponsive soundings of the sea,
Speak both one message of one sense to me:
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Youth and Calm
by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Thoughtless Cruelty
by Charles Lamb (1779-1834)
There, Robert, you have kill
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Friday, December 26, 2008
The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode
by Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
I.1
Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake,
And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.
From Helicon
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Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas Bells
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
The Night Before Christmas
attributed to Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Cliff Klingenhagen
by Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Cliff Klingenhagen had me in to dine
With him one day; and after soup and meat,
And all the other things there were to eat,
Cliff took two glasses and filled one with wine
And one with wormwood. Then, without a sign
For me to choose at all, he took the draught
Of bitterness himself, and [...]
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