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| 4781. | Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor | | The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by,
Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve,
Some froward, some sedater, some adorn'd
For festiv... |
| 4782. | Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor | | An ancient chestnut’s blossoms threw
Their heavy odour over two:
Leucippe, it is said, was one;
The other, then, was Alciphron.
‘Come, come! w... |
| 4783. | Why, Why Repine by Walter Savage Landor | | Why, why repine, my pensive friend,
At pleasures slipp'd away?
Some the stern Fates will never lend,
And all refuse to stay.
I see the rainb... |
| 4785. | The Surprise by William Barnes | | As there I left the road in May,
And took my way along a ground,
I found a glade with girls at play,
By leafy boughs close-hemmed around,
And ther... |
| 4786. | The Open Sea by Dorothea Mackeller | | From my window I can see,
Where the sandhills dip,
One far glimpse of open sea.
Just a slender slip
Curving like a crescent moon—
Yet a gr... |
| 4787. | The Zeppelin by Laurence Binyon | | Guns! far and near
Quick, sudden, angry,
They startle the still street,
Upturned faces appear,
Doors open on darkness,
There is a hurrying o... |
| 4788. | When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly by Oliver Goldsmith | | When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
T... |
| 4789. | Morning Worship by Mark van Doren | | I wake and hearing it raining.
Were I dead, what would I give
Lazily to lie here,
Like this, and live?
Or better yet: birdsong,
Brightening and... |
| 4790. | Our Lady Peace by Mark van Doren | | How far is it to peace, the piper sighed,
The solitary, sweating as he paused.
Asphalt the noon; the ravens, terrified,
Fled carrion thunder that p... |
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