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Monthly Archives: January 2009

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The Skater
by Charles G. D. Roberts (1860-1943)
My glad feet shod with the glittering steel
I was the god of the wing

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On King Arthur

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The Lyric
by John G. Neihardt (1881-1973)
Give the good gaunt horse the rein,
Sting him with the steel!
Set his nervous thews a-strain,
Let him feel the winner

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A Lost Chord
by Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)
Seated one day at the Organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy keys.
I do not know what I was playing,
Or what I was dreaming then;
But I struck one chord of music,
Like the sound of a great Amen.
It flooded the crimson twilight
Like the close [...]

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I am the People, the Mob
by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
I am the people

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Accroupissements
by Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
Bien tard, quand il se sent l

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Love Among the Ruins
by Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles
Miles and miles
On the solitary pastures where our sheep
Half-asleep
Tinkle homeward thro

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Mumps
by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)
I had a feeling in my neck,
And on the sides were two big bumps;
I couldn

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New Year