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Monthly Archives: January 2009

poem of the day

Wonder and Joy
by Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
The things that one grows tired of

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The City in the Sea
by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by [...]

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Rose Leaves
by Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
I intended an Ode,
And it turned to a Sonnet.
It began

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The Student

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The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna
by Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note,
As his corpse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O

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The Nation Builders
by George Essex Evans (1863-1909)
A handful of workers seeking the star of a strong intent

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Dead Boy
by John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
The little cousin dead, by foul subraction,
A green bough from Virginia

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poem of the day

Bedouin Song
by Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
From the Desert I come to thee
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under your window I stand,
And the midnight hears my cry:
I love thee, I love but thee,
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