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| 1871. | Advice to a Prophet by Richard Wilbur | | When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city,
Mad-eyed from stating the obvious,
Not proclaiming our fall but begging us
In God's na... |
| 1873. | Parable by Richard Wilbur | | I read how Quixote in his random ride
Came to a crossing once, and lest he lose
The purity of chance, would not decide
Whither to fare, but wishe... |
| 1874. | Puritans by Richard Wilbur | | Sidling upon the river, the white boat
Has volleyed with its cannon all the morning,
Shaken the shore towns like a Judgment warning,
Telling the pa... |
| 1875. | The Prisoner of Zenda by Richard Wilbur | | At the end a
"The Prisoner of Zenda,"
The King being out of danger,
Stewart Granger
(As Rudolph Rassendyll)
Must swallow a bitter pill
By renoun... |
| 1876. | Epistemology by Richard Wilbur | | I.
Kick at the rock, Sam Johnson, break your bones:
But cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones.
II.
We milk the cow of the world, and as we do
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| 1877. | Ode to Stephen Bowling Dots, Dec'd by Mark Twain | | And did young Stephen sicken,
And did young Stephen die?
And did the sad hearts thicken,
And did the mourners cry?
No; such was not the fate of
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| 1878. | The Aged Pilot Man by Mark Twain | | On the Erie Canal, it was,
All on a summer's day,
I sailed forth with my parents
Far away to Albany.
From out the clouds at noon that day
There... |
| 1879. | The Prodigal Son by Rudyard Kipling | | Here come I to my own again,
Fed, forgiven and known again,
Claimed by bone of my bone again
And cheered by flesh of my flesh.
The fatted calf... |
| 1880. | Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal by Rudyard Kipling | | Speakin' in general, I'ave tried 'em all
The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world.
Speakin' in general, I'ave found them good
For such as ca... |
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