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Saturday, September 5, 2009

A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens In the Eighteenth Century Manner
by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)
VERSE I
In a famed town of Caledonia

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Friday, September 4, 2009

September
by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
Now every day the bracken browner grows,
Even the purple stars
Of clematis, that shone about the bars,
Grow browner; and the little autumn rose
Dons, for her rosy gown,
Sad weeds of brown.
Now falls the eve; and ere the morning sun,
Many a flower her sweet life will have lost,
Slain by the bitter frost,
Who slays the [...]

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Remonstrance
by James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897)
Oh! why those narrow rules extol?
   These but restrain from ill,
True virtue lies in strength of soul
   And energy of will.
To all that

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Kissing Time
by Eugene Field (1850-1895)

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty
by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
Brittle beauty, that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season;
Flow

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