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My Poison

You are my poison
That keeps me alive,
From all the nonsense
This world subscribes.
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Az Mo

Az Mo
Endymion: Book Iv

Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse!
O first-born on the mountains! by the hues
Of heaven on the spiritual air begot:
Long didst thou sit alone in northern grot,
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John Keats

John Keats
Only God'detect The Sorrow

626

Only God-detect the Sorrow-
Only God-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
Dependence

To keep the lamp alive,
With oil we fill the bowl;
'Tis water makes the willow thrive,
And grace that feeds the soul.
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William Cowper

William Cowper
Security

Tomorrow will have an island. Before night
I always find it. Then on to the next island.
These places hidden in the day separate
and come forward if you beckon.
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William Stafford
Vignettes 03: The Artisan

This twilight gloom. This lone retreat-
This silence to my soul is sweet!
Awhile escap'd from toil and strife,
And all the lesser ills of life,
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Matilda Betham

Matilda Betham
Vignettes 16: To Mrs A.

An Hour was before me, no creature more bright,
More airy, more joyous, e'er sprang on my sight.
To catch and to fetter I instantly tried,
And “thou art my slave, pretty vagrant,” I cried.
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Matilda Betham

Matilda Betham
Tale Iii

THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.

Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,
Who dwelt around, 'the Gentleman' would call;
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George Crabbe

George Crabbe
Ps: 116

Ime Pleasd that Heaven hears my cry,
Regards me when I pray,
Ime pleasd, & in a gratefull Joy,
Will worship every day.
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Thomas Parnell

Thomas Parnell
Richard Minutolo

IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told,
Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled;
With beauteous objects in abundance blessed.
No country round so many has possessed;
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Jean De La Fontaine
Hannah

Now Crowds more off, retiring trumpetts sound
On Eccho's dying in their last rebound,
The notes of fancy seem no longer strong,
But sweetning closes fitt a private song.
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Thomas Parnell

Thomas Parnell
The October Night

POET.
My haunting grief has vanished like a dream,
Its floating fading memory seems one
With those frail mists born of the dawn's first beam,
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Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus
Through The Metodja To Abd-el-kadr

I

As I ride, as I ride,
With a full heart for my guide,
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Robert Browning

Robert Browning
Here, Where The Daisies Fit My Head

1037

Here, where the Daisies fit my Head
'Tis easiest to lie
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
Sweet Pirate Of The Heart

1546

Sweet Pirate of the heart,
Not Pirate of the Sea,
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
I Shall Not Burn

I have done with love and lust,
I reck not for gold or fame;
I await familiar dust
These frail fingers to reclaim:
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Robert Service

Robert Service
Paradise Lost: Book 11

Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn
From his displeasure; in whose look serene,
When angry most he seemed and most severe,
What else but favour, grace, and mercy, shone?
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John Milton

John Milton
The Prayer Of Nature

Father of Light! great God of Heaven!
Hear'st thou the accents of despair?
Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven?
Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?
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George Gordon Lord Byron

George Gordon Lord Byron
The Lay Of Marie: Canto First

The guests are met, the feast is near,
But Marie does not yet appear!
And to her vacant seat on high
Is lifted many an anxious eye.
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Matilda Betham

Matilda Betham
Christmas Chimes

Once more the merry Christmas bells,
Are ringing far and wide;
Their chime in rhythmic chorus swells,
While every brazen throat foretells,
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Alfred Castner King
The Spagnoletto

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.
JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.
LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.
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Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus
The Christmas-box

THIS box, mine own sweet darling, thou wilt find
With many a varied sweetmeat's form supplied;
The fruits are they of holy Christmas tide,
But baked indeed, for children's use design'd.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Solitude

OH ye kindly nymphs, who dwell 'mongst the rocks and the thickets,
Grant unto each whatsoe'er he may in silence desire!
Comfort impart to the mourner, and give to the doubter instruction,
And let the lover rejoice, finding the bliss that he craves.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Dance At The Phoenix

To Jenny came a gentle youth
From inland leazes lone;
His love was fresh as apple-blooth
By Parrett, Yeo, or Tone.
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Nusch

The sentiments apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.

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Paul Eluard
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Admonition 02

Confide not to a friend every secret thou possessest. How knowest thou that he will not some time become thy foe? Inflict not every injury thou canst upon an enemy because it is possible that one day he may become thy friend.



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Saadi Shirazi
Olney Hymn 62: Dependence

To keep the lamp alive,
With oil we fill the bowl;
'Tis water makes the willow thrive,
And grace that feeds the soul.
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William Cowper

William Cowper
To A Youthful Friend

Few years have pass'd since thou and I
Were firmest friends, at least in name,
And Childhood's gay sincerity
Preserved our feelings long the same.
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George Gordon Lord Byron

George Gordon Lord Byron
A Hymn To The Moon

Written in July, in an arbour


Thou silver deity of secret night,
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The Loving One Once More

WHY do I o'er my paper once more bend?
Ask not too closely, dearest one, I pray
For, to speak truth, I've nothing now to say;
Yet to thy hands at length 'twill come, dear friend.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Partners

(”Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that
property which is the result of the husband's earnings and
the wife's savings becomes their joint property…. In this
most important of all partnerships there is no partnership
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Alice Duer Miller
To A Friend, Written At A Very Early Age

I've read, my friend, of Dioclesian,
And many another noble Grecian,
Who wealth and palaces resigned,
In cots the joys of peace to find;
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Henry Kirk White
The Puzzler

The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo,
His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do,
And can logically predicate his finish by his start;
But the English--ah, the English!--they are quite a race apart.
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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
Tatiana's Letter

FROM 'EUGENE ONIEGIN'

I write to you . . . when that is said
What more is left for me to say ?
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
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Dana Gioia
Take Not The Gods To Task, For They Are Wise

Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise
When they refuse no less than when they grant.
Thou canst but know, with all thy bursting sighs,
What is thy whim, but never what thy want.
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Alfred Austin
Witch Of Our Wilderness

I know not why I love your baffling face,
Or, lonely, to your cold caresses steal,
Or what the charm persuades my wearied eyes
Follow the clues that gleam and, wavering, go,
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Bernard O'dowd
I Shall Not Burn

I have done with love and lust,
I reck not for gold or fame;
I await familiar dust
These frail fingers to reclaim:
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Robert William Service
The Rule Of Life Expanded

IF thou wouldst live unruffled by care,
Let not the past torment thee e'er;
If any loss thou hast to rue,
Act as though thou wert born anew;
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
From Menander

Fond youth! who dream'st that hoarded gold
Is needful not alone to pay
For all thy various items sold,
To serve the wants of every day;
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William Cowper

William Cowper
The Rule Of Life

IF thou wouldst live unruffled by care,
Let not the past torment thee e'er;
As little as possible be thou annoy'd,
And let the present be ever enjoy'd;
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only God-detect The Sorrow

626

Only Godâ??detect the Sorrowâ??
Only Godâ??
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
As Bronze May Be Much Beautified

As bronze may be much beautified
By lying in the dark damp soil,
So men who fade in dust of warfare fade
Fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.
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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen
The Two Guides Of Life - The Sublime And The Beautiful

Two genii are there, from thy birth through weary life to guide thee;
Ah, happy when, united both, they stand to aid beside thee?
With gleesome play to cheer the path, the one comes blithe with beauty,
And lighter, leaning on her arm, the destiny and duty.
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Friedrich Schiller
The Ballad Of Mabel Clare

Ye children of the Land of Gold,
I sing a song to you,
And if the jokes are somewhat old,
The main idea is new.
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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson
A Carol Of Harvest, For 1867

A song of the good green grass!
A song no more of the city streets;
A song of farms--a song of the soil of fields.

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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
Descriptive Sketches

Were there, below, a spot of holy ground
Where from distress a refuge might be found,
And solitude prepare the soul for heaven;
Sure, nature's God that spot to man had given
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The Recluse - Book First

HOME AT GRASMERE

Once to the verge of yon steep barrier came
A roving school-boy; what the adventurer's age
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
To Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart From The South-west Coast Or Cumberland 1811

Far from our home by Grasmere's quiet Lake,
From the Vale's peace which all her fields partake,
Here on the bleakest point of Cumbria's shore
We sojourn stunned by Ocean's ceaseless roar;
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth