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Girlfriend

Bitch!
No, she ain't a ditch,
Got right mind,
And flexible smile, bind,
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Brian Dredan

Brian Dredan
Value Of Literature

Value of literature is above precious ruby,
It voice higher than the dictation of God,
So timeless, with in-depth human undergo,
Worthy of deep cerebral feelings to deal
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Santosh Kumar

Santosh Kumar
Michael Oaktree

Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed
Out of the wood and saw the sickle moon
Floating in daylight o'er the pale green sea.

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Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes
East And West

The Day has never understood the Gloaming or the Night;
Though sired by one Creative Power, and nursed at Nature's breast;
The White Man ever fails to read the Dark Man's heart aright;
Though from the self-same Source they came, upon the self-same quest;
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Preface

A book which needs to be written is one dealing
with the childhood of authors. It would be
not only interesting, but instructive; not merely
profitable in a general way, but practical in a
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Hilda Conkling

Hilda Conkling
To A Friend

“You damn me with faint praise.”


Yes, faint was my applause and cold my praise,
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Joseph Rodman Drake

Joseph Rodman Drake
By Life Tormented

By life tormented, and by cunning hope,
When my soul surrenders in its battle with them,
Day and night I press my eyelids closed
And sometimes I'm vouchsafed peculiar visions.
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Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet
Andrew Rykman-s Prayer

Andrew Rykman's dead and gone;
You can see his leaning slate
In the graveyard, and thereon
Read his name and date.
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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
Elegy I

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly
pressed me against his heart, I would perish
in the embrace of his stronger existence.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
The Disciple

I.

The times are changed, and gone the day
When the high heavenly land,
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George Macdonald

George Macdonald
A Hymn

Clothed on with thunder and with steel
And black against the dawn
The whirling armies clash and reel. . . .
A wind, and they are gone
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Don Marquis

Don Marquis
To B. R. Haydon

HIGH is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art
(Whether the instrument of words she use,
Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,)
Demands the service of a mind and heart,
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
Uriel

(In memory of William Vaughn Moody)


I
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Percy Mackaye

Percy Mackaye
Thought.

How mystical is thought! We do but think,
Be it of heaven or hell, and we are there!
Such feet has phantasy, more fleet than light,
We flash ourselves away where'er we will,
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Robert Crawford
The Dream Of Youth

In days of yore, while yet the world was new,
And all around was beautiful to view-
When spring or summer ruled the happy hours,
And golden fruit hung down mid opening flowers;
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Sam G. Goodrich
Twenty-fourth Sunday After Trinity

The heart knoweth his own bitterness: and a stranger doth not
intermeddle with his joy. Proverbs xiv. 10.


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John Keble

John Keble
Poems On Man

Man goes into the noisy crowd
to drown his own clamour of silence.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly.
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Rabindranath Tagore
The Greatness Of The World

Through the world which the Spirit creative and kind
First formed out of chaos, I fly like the wind,
Until on the strand
Of its billows I land,
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Friedrich Schiller
Poetry

Poet exaggerate creative imagination,
Phrasing the words,
Narrating the stories,
Sing a sentimental song in rhyming rhythm,
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Norbu Dorji

Norbu Dorji
The Listener

Why, certainly. Let's listen to the cricket.
Oh, I'm quite keen. Test match, I understand.
At... What's that? Oh, Australia's at the wicket.
South Africa - a most intriguing land.
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
August

This was its promise, held to faithfully:
The early morning sun came in this way
Until the angle of its saffron beam
Between the curtains and the sofa lay,
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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak
An Inventor

Not yet!

I thought this time 'twas done at last,
the workings perfected, the life in it;
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Augusta Davies Webster
The Artists

How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,
Upon the waning century standest thou,
In proud and noble manhood's prime,
With unlocked senses, with a spirit freed,
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Friedrich Schiller
A Song Of Harvest

This day, two hundred years ago,
The wild grape by the river's side,
And tasteless groundnut trailing low,
The table of the woods supplied.
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John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
The Dream Of Youth.

In days of yore, while yet the world was new,
And all around was beautiful to view
When spring or summer ruled the happy hours,
And golden fruit hung down mid opening flowers;
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Samuel Griswold Goodrich
The Pleasures Of Imagination - The Second Book

When shall the laurel and the vocal string
Resume their honours? When shall we behold
The tuneful tongue, the Promethéan hand
Aspire to ancient praise? Alas! how faint,
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Mark Akenside

Mark Akenside
The Prelude - Book Second

SCHOOL-TIME (continued)

Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much
Unvisited, endeavoured to retrace
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The Excursion - Book First - The Wanderer

'Twas summer, and the sun had mounted high:
Southward the landscape indistinctly glared
Through a pale steam; but all the northern downs,
In clearest air ascending, showed far off
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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
The Artists.

How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,
Upon the waning century standest thou,
In proud and noble manhood's prime,
With unlocked senses, with a spirit freed,
.....

Friedrich Schiller
The Power Of Words

‘Oinos.'

Pardon, Agathos, the weakness of a spirit new-fledged with
immortality!
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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
The Squanderer

God gave him passions, splendid as the sun,
Meant for the lordliest purposes; a part
Of nature's full and fertile mother heart,
From which new systems and new stars are spun.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Domestic Affections

WHENCE are those tranquil joys, in mercy giv'n,
To light the wilderness with beams of Heav'n?
To sooth our cares, and thro' the cloud diffuse,
Their tempered sun-shine, and celestial hues?
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story: Part V

Said the high hill, in the morning: “Look on me-
“Behold, sweet earth, sweet sister sky, behold
“The red flames on my peaks, and how my pines
“Are cressets of pure gold; my quarried scars
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Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford
Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story: Part Vi

“Who curseth Sorrow knows her not at all.
Dark matrix she, from which the human soul
Has its last birth; whence, with its misty thews,
Close-knitted in her blackness, issues out;
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Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford
The Diary Of An Old Soul: 05 ' May.

1.

What though my words glance sideways from the thing
Which I would utter in thine ear, my sire!
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George Macdonald

George Macdonald
The Diary Of An Old Soul: 07 ' July.

1.

Alas, my tent! see through it a whirlwind sweep!
Moaning, poor Fancy's doves are swept away.
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George Macdonald

George Macdonald
The Diary Of An Old Soul: 08 ' August.

1.

So shall abundant entrance me be given
Into the truth, my life's inheritance.
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George Macdonald

George Macdonald
As The Indian

Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind
Sees God in the clouds and hears Him in the wind.
-Pope.

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Alfred Castner King
The Poet's Possession

Think not, oh master of the well-tilled field,
This earth is only thine; for after thee,
When all is sown and gathered and put by,
Comes the grave poet with creative eye,
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Archibald Lampman
The Nativity Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ

Where is this stupendous stranger,
Swains of Solyma, advise?
Lead me to my Master's manger,
Show me where my Saviour lies.
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Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart
Nothing Remains

Nothing remains of unrecorded ages
That lie in the silent cemetery time;
Their wisdom may have shamed our wisest sages,
Their glory may have been indeed sublime.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Memory

I

Serene and beautiful and very wise,
Most erudite in curious Grecian lore,
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Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer
Ornithanthropos

'Let John P. Irish rise!' the edict rang
As when Creation into being sprang!
Nature, not clearly understanding, tried
To make a bird that on the air could ride.
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Ambrose Bierce
Resolve

Build on resolve, and not upon regret,
The structure of thy future. Do not grope
Among the shadows of old sins, but let
Thine own soulâ??s light shine on the path of hope
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poetry (sonnet)

The lifeâ??s chance and creative spirit
United painfully in you,
And midst the beautyâ??s hitting views
Thereâ??s not so airy and exquisiteâ?¦
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Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky
Definition Of Creative Art

With shirt wide open at the collar,
Maned as Beethoven's bust, it stands;
Our conscience, dreams, the night and love,
Are as chessmen covered by its hands.
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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak
The Poet's Possession

Think not, oh master of the well-tilled field,
This earth is only thine; for after thee,
When all is sown and gathered and put by,
Comes the grave poet with creative eye,
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Archibald Lampman
America

NOR force nor fraud shall sunder us! O ye
Who north or south, on east or western land,
Native to noble sounds, say truth for truth,
Freedom for freedom, love for love, and God
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Sydney Thompson Dobell
To My Mother

Once more the Christian festival is near,
And I, for whom each day repeats all days
Continuously in ecstasy of praise,
Love's birthday lasting through the unending year,
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John Le Gay Brereton
Grandeur

Dedicated to the mountains of the San Juan district,
Colorado, as seen from the summit of Mt. Wilson.


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Alfred Castner King