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Monthly Archives: August 2009

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Hope
by Emily Jane Bront

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Love

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The Bookworm
by Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
With spectacles upon his nose,
He shuffles up and down;
Of antique fashion are his clothes,
His napless hat is brown.
A mighty watch, of silver wrought,
Keeps time in sun or rain
To the dull ticking of the thought
Within his dusty brain.
To see [...]

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Written at Florence
by Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)
O world, in very truth thou art too young;
When wilt thou learn to wear the garb of age?
World, with thy covering of yellow flowers,
Hast thou forgot what generations sprung
Out of thy loins and loved thee and are gone?
Hast thou no place in all their heritage
Where thou dost only weep, [...]

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The Night Cometh
by Annie Louisa Walker (1836-1907)
Work, for the night is coming,
Work thro

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Bonnie Dundee
by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Tae the lairds i

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Destiny
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
That you are fair or wise is vain,
Or strong, or rich, or generous;
You must add the untaught strain
That sheds beauty on the rose.
There

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Sally in Our Alley
by Henry Carey (1687-1743)
Of all the girls that are so smart
   There

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The Cataract of Lodore
by Robert Southey (1774-1843)

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The Christening
by Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919)
In vain we broider cap and cloak, and fold
   The long robe, white and rare;
In vain we serve on dishes of red gold,
   Perhaps, the rich man