Tuesday, December 9, 2008
When Cold December
by Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
When cold December
Froze to grisamber
The jangling bells on the sweet rose-trees
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Integer Vitae
by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
by John Dryden (1631-1700)
Farewell, too little, and too lately known,
Whom I began to think and call my own:
For sure our souls were near ally
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A Birthday
by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Cui Bono
by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
What is Hope? A smiling rainbow
Children follow through the wet;
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
December
by Dollie Radford (1858-1920)
No gardener need go far to find
The Christmas rose,
The fairest of the flowers that mark
The sweet Year
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Song Written to a Hindoo Air
by Amelia Opie (1769-1853)
Ask not, whence springs my ceaseless sadness,
But let me still the secret keep:
Ask not, why thus in restless madness
Pass the long hours once given to sleep:
And strive not thus my looks to read:….
For
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War Song
by John Davidson (1857-1909)
In anguish we uplift
A new unhallowed song:
The race is to the swift;
The battle to the strong.
Of old it was ordained
That we, in packs like curs,
Some thirty million trained
And licensed murderers,
In crime should live and act,
If cunning [...]
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