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| 2531. | The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence by W. S. Merwin | | Moored to the same ring:
The hour, the darkness and I,
Our compasses hooded like falcons.
Now the memory of you comes aching in
With a wash of b... |
| 2532. | The Scholar Gypsy by Matthew Arnold | | Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill;
Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes!
No longer leave thy wistful flock unfed,
Nor let thy baw... |
| 2533. | Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold | | Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask—thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill,
Who to the sta... |
| 2534. | The Pagan World by Matthew Arnold | | In his cool hall, with haggard eyes,
The Roman noble lay;
He drove abroad, in furious guise,
Along the Appian way.
He made a feast, drank fierce... |
| 2535. | Philomela by Matthew Arnold | | Hark! ah, the nightingale—
The tawny-throated!
Hark, from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
What triumph! hark!—what pain!
O wanderer from a... |
| 2536. | The Song Of Empedocles by Matthew Arnold | | And you, ye stars,
Who slowly begin to marshal,
As of old, in the fields of heaven,
Your distant, melancholy lines!
Have you, too, survived yourse... |
| 2537. | Worldly Place by Matthew Arnold | | Even in a palace, life may be led well!
So spake the imperial sage, purest of men,
Marcus Aurelius. But the stifling den
Of common life, where, cro... |
| 2538. | Self-Dependence by Matthew Arnold | | Weary of myself, and sick of asking
What I am, and what I ought to be,
At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me
Forwards, forwards, o'er the s... |
| 2539. | Rugby Chapel by Matthew Arnold | | Coldly, sadly descends
The autumn-evening. The field
Strewn with its dank yellow drifts
Of wither'd leaves, and the elms,
Fade into dimness apace,... |
| 2540. | To a Republican Friend by Matthew Arnold | | God knows it, I am with you. If to prize
Those virtues, priz'd and practis'd by too few,
But priz'd, but lov'd, but eminent in you,
Man's fundament... |
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