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| 3751. | To Reformers in Despair by Vachel Lindsay | | 'Tis not too late to build our young land right,
Cleaner than Holland, courtlier than Japan,
Devout like early Rome, with hearths like hers,
Hea... |
| 3752. | The Encyclopaedia by Vachel Lindsay | | "If I could set the moon upon
This table," said my friend,
"Among the standard poets
And brouchures without end,
And noble prints of old Japan,... |
| 3753. | When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich by Vachel Lindsay | | He paid a Swede twelve bits an hour
Just to invent a fancy style
To spread the celebration paint
So it would show at least a mile.
Some things ... |
| 3754. | Happy The Man by John Dryden | | Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
B... |
| 3755. | Absalom And Achitophel by John Dryden | | In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin,
Before polygamy was made a sin;
When man, on many, multipli'd his kind,
Ere one to one was cursedly con... |
| 3757. | Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music by John Dryden | | 'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won
By Philip's warlike son—
Aloft in awful state
The godlike hero sate
On his imperial throne;
His valian... |
| 3759. | Veni, Creator Spiritus by John Dryden | | Creator Spirit, by whose aid
The world's foundations first were laid,
Come, visit ev'ry pious mind;
Come, pour thy joys on human kind;
From sin, a... |
| 3760. | Song From Amphitryon by John Dryden | | Air Iris I love, and hourly I die,
But not for a lip, nor a languishing eye:
She's fickle and false, and there we agree,
For I am as false and a... |
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