Saturday, February 28, 2009
At Seventeen
by Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
You were a child, and liked me, yesterday.
To-day you are a woman, and perhaps
Those softer eyes betoken the sweet lapse
Of liking into loving: who shall say?
Only I know that there can be for us
No liking more, nor any kisses now,
But they shall wake sweet shame upon your brow
Sweetly, or in a [...]
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Friday, February 27, 2009
The Bridge of Cloud
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Burn, O evening hearth, and waken
Pleasant visions, as of old!
Though the house by winds be shaken,
Safe I keep this room of gold!
Ah, no longer wizard Fancy
Builds her castles in the air,
Luring me by necromancy
Up the never-ending stair!
But, instead, she builds me bridges
Over many a dark ravine,
Where beneath the [...]
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Le Lendemain
by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Un vase, flanqu
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
My Education
by James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
At school I sometimes read a book,
And learned a lot of lessons;
Some small amount of pains I took,
And showed much acquiescence
In what my masters said, good men!
Yet after all I quite
Forgot the most of it: but then
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Monday, February 23, 2009
Villanelle of Sunset
by Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Come hither, Child! and rest:
This is the end of day,
Behold the weary West!
Sleep rounds with equal zest
Man
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
I Dreamed Your Face
by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838-1912)
I dreamed your face, one night, when Heaven seemed resting,
Against the troubled fever of the earth;
I dreamed that vivid throated birds were nesting,
In trees that shook with elfin-hearted mirth.
I dreamed that star-like purple flowers were springing
A-throb with perfume all [...]
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Pillar of the Cloud
by John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Lead, kindly light, amid th
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Chess promoters and players are always trying to reach out to the general public and attract their interest. It
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Jottings of New York
by William McGonagall (1825-1902)
Oh mighty City of New York! you are wonderful to behold,
Your buildings are magnificent, the truth be it told,
They were the only things that seemed to arrest my eye,
Because many of them are thirteen storeys high.
And as for Central Park, it is lovely to be seen
Especially in the summer [...]
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