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| 2841. | St. Alphonsus Rodriguez by Gerard Manley Hopkins | | Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say;
And those strokes once that gashed flesh or galled shield
Should ... |
| 2842. | Sleep by Kenneth Slessor | | Do you give yourself to me utterly,
Body and no-body, flesh and no-flesh
Not as a fugitive, blindly or bitterly,
But as a child might, with ... |
| 2843. | The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Think me not unkind and rude,
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men.
Tax not my sloth that I... |
| 2844. | The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | I like a church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul,
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
Yet not... |
| 2845. | The Park by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | The prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of conscience masterful,
Which galls me everywhere.
I cannot shake off the god;
On... |
| 2846. | Compensation by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Why should I keep holiday,
When other men have none?
Why but because when these are gay,
I sit and mourn alone.
And why when mirth unseals all t... |
| 2847. | The Sphinx by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | The Sphinx is drowsy,
Her wings are furled:
Her ear is heavy,
She broods on the world.
"Who'll tell me my secret,
The ages have kept?__
I ... |
| 2848. | Alphonso Of Castile by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | I Alphonso live and learn,
Seeing nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind,
Lemons run to leaves and rind,
Meagre crop of figs and limes,
Sho... |
| 2849. | The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | I like a church; I like a cowl;
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles;
Yet ... |
| 2850. | Painting And Sculpture by Ralph Waldo Emerson | | The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm,
Because she still is naked, being drest;
The godlike sculptor will not so deform
Beauty, which bones an... |
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