The Universal Prayer
by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Father of all! In every age,
In ev
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I Am
by John Clare (1793-1864)
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish in oblivious host,
Like shades in love and death
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A Song before Sailing
by Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
Wind of the dead men
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The Deserted Farmhouse
by Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832)
This antique dome the insatiate tooth of time
Now level with the dust has almost laid;
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Bivouacs
by Gilbert Waterhouse (1883-1916)
In Somecourt Wood, in Somecourt Wood,
The nightingales sang all night,
The stars were tangled in the trees
And marvellous intricacies
Of leaf and branch and song and light
Made magic stir in Somecourt Wood.
In Somecourt Wood, in Somecourt Wood,
We slithered in a foot of mire,
The moisture squelching in our boots;
We stumbled over tangled roots,
And ruts and [...]
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I Would I Were a Careless Child
by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
I would I were a careless child,
Still dwelling in my Highland cave,
Or roaming through the dusky wild,
Or bounding o
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The Sin Of Omission
by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1838-1912)
It isn
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The New Vestments
by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess,
Who invented a purely original dress;
And when it was perfectly made and complete,
He opened the door, and walked into the street.
By way of a hat, he
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Songs for the People
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Let me make the songs for the people,
Songs for the old and young;
Songs to stir like a battle-cry
Wherever they are sung.
Not for the clashing of sabres,
For carnage nor for strife;
But songs to thrill the hearts [...]
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