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We Are Lonely In Your Crowd

We are lonely in your crowd
just like the deaf community
we are searching for humility,
we are lonely in your crowd
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Francis Ngwenya

Francis Ngwenya
The Brus Book X

[Preparations for battle against John of Lorn]
Quhen Thomas Randell on this wis
Wes takyn as Ik her devys
And send to dwell in gud keping
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John Barbour
The Hostage

The tyrant Dionys to seek,
Stern Moerus with his poniard crept;
The watchful guard upon him swept;
The grim king marked his changeless cheek:
.....

Friedrich Schiller
The Song Of Hiawatha Xiii: Blessing The Cornfields

Sing, O Song of Hiawatha,
Of the happy days that followed,
In the land of the Ojibways,
In the pleasant land and peaceful!
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Dark Palace

There beams no light from thy hall to-night,
Oh, House of Fame;
No mead-vat seethes and no smoke upwreathes
O'er the hearth's red flame;
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Alice Milligan
Night

The night proceeds and dwindling
Prepares the day's rebirth.
An airman is ascending
Above the sleeping earth.
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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak
Metamorphoses: Book 08

Now shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies.
.....
Ovid

Ovid
Despair

I have experienc'd
The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst
That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb
With whisper'd Discontents the dying prayer--
.....
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnet 79: Sweet Kiss, Thy Sweets I Fain

Sweet kiss, thy sweets I fain would sweetly endite,
Which even of sweetness sweetest sweet'ner art:
Pleasing'st consort, where each sense holds a part;
Which, coupling doves, guides Venus' chariot right;
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Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet Lxiii: Truce, Gentle Love

Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave;
Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun;
Nor thou nor I the better yet can have;
Bad is the match where neither party won.
.....
Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton
Blessing The Cornfields

Sing, O Song of Hiawatha,
Of the happy days that followed,
In the land of the Ojibways,
In the pleasant land and peaceful!
.....
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Funeral

The gods held talk together, group'd in knots,
Round Balder's corpse, which they had thither borne;
And Hermod came down towards them from the gate.
And Lok, the Father of the Serpent, first
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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold
Snow-bound - A Winter Idyl

"As the Spirits of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits, which be Angels of Light, are augmented not only by the Divine light of the Sun, but also by our common Wood Fire: and as the Celestial Fire drives away dark spirits, so also this our Fire of Wood doth the same."
- Cor. AGRIPPA, Occult Philosophy, Book I. ch. v

"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
.....
John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
Marmion: Canto V. - The Court

I.

The train has left the hills of Braid;
The barrier guard have open made
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Walter Scott (sir)
Rokeby: Canto Vi.

I.
The summer sun, whose early power
Was wont to gild Matilda's bower,
And rouse her with his matin ray
.....

Walter Scott (sir)
Into The Country Of The Gadarenes

Arthritic fingers of the olive trees
Accuse the sun of ancient injuries.

The shallows harden to an ochre crust
.....

Am Juster
The Lady And The Earthenware Head

Fired in sanguine clay, the model head
Fit nowhere: brickdust-complected, eye under a dense lid,
On the long bookshelf it stood
Stolidly propping thick volumes of prose: spite-set
.....

Sylvia Plath
The Lady Of The Lake: Canto V. - The Combat

I.
Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light,
When first, by the bewildered pilgrim spied,
It smiles upon the dreary brow of night
.....

Walter Scott (sir)
The Lay Of The Last Minstrel: Canto Iv

I
Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide
The glaring bale-fires blaze no more;
No longer steel-clad warrior ride
.....

Walter Scott (sir)
Sonet 55

Truce gentle loue, a parly now I craue,
Me thinks, 'tis long since first these wars begun,
Nor thou nor I, the better yet can haue:
Bad is the match where neither party wone.
.....
Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton
The Feud: A Border Ballad

PLATE I
Rixa super mero

They sat by their wine in the tavern that night,
.....
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adam Lindsay Gordon
Metamorphoses: Book The Eighth

NOW shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies.
.....
Ovid

Ovid
Metamorphoses: Book The Eighth

NOW shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies.
.....
Ovid

Ovid
Metamorphoses: Book The Eighth

NOW shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies.
.....
Ovid

Ovid
The Song Of Hiawatha - Xiii - Blessing The Cornfields

Sing, O Song of Hiawatha,
Of the happy days that followed,
In the land of the Ojibways,
In the pleasant land and peaceful!
.....
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Hostage. A Ballad

The tyrant Dionys to seek,
Stern Moerus with his poniard crept;
The watchful guard upon him swept;
The grim king marked his changeless cheek:
.....

Friedrich Schiller
Sonnets: Idea Lxiii

Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave,
Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun;
Nor thou, nor I, the better yet can have;
Bad is the match where neither party won.
.....
Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton
Mabel, A Sketch

Mabel, A Sketch.


DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
.....

Walter R. Cassels
The Hard Strait Of The Feinne

Now of the hard strait of the Feinne this legend's verse shall tell:
When Fionn's men had fought and won, and all with them was well,
And victory on Erin's shores had given spoil which they
Alone could win whose swords of old were mightiest in the fray:
.....

John Campbell
The Foundling

Beautiful Mother, I have toiled all day;
And I am wearied. And the day is done.
Now, while the wild brooks run
Soft by the furrows--fading, gold to gray,
.....
Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody
The Wolf And The Fox (prose Fable)

A fox once remarked to a wolf, "Dear friend, do you know that the utmost I can get for my meals is a tough old cock or perchance a lean hen or two. It is a diet of which I am thoroughly weary. You, on the other hand, feed much better than that, and with far less danger. My foraging takes me close up to houses; but you keep far away. I beg of you, comrade, to teach me your trade. Let me be the first of my race to furnish my pot with a plump sheep, and you will not find me ungrateful."

"Very well," replied the obliging wolf. "I have a brother recently dead, suppose you go and get his skin and wear it." This the fox accordingly did and the wolf commenced to give him lessons. "You must do this and act so, when you wish to separate the dogs from the flocks." At first Reynard was a little awkward, but he rapidly improved, and with a little practice he reached at last the perfection of wolfish strategy. Just as he had learned all that there was to know a flock approached. The sham wolf ran after it spreading terror all around, even as Patroclus wearing[1] the armour of Achilles spread alarm throughout camp and city, when mothers, wives, and old men hastened to the temples for protection. "In this case, the bleating army made sure there must be quite fifty wolves after them, and fled, dog and shepherd with them, to the neighbouring village, leaving only one sheep as a hostage.

.....

Jean De La Fontaine
The Abyss Of Drug Addiction

In an errant venture in curiosity -
lured from savvy of cooler judgment,  
he oversteps the bounds of reality 
into a state of altered awareness.
.....
Dike Chinedu

Dike Chinedu
I Kept Waiting

When you said you needed time,
I thought you asked me-
To hide for a while.
When time felt so sophisticated
.....
Praisely Okoche

Praisely Okoche
The Poet's Tale - The Wayside Inn - Part Third

CHARLEMAGNE

Olger the Dane and Desiderio,
King of the Lombards, on a lofty tower
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Wolves And The Sheep

[1]

By-gone a thousand years of war,
The wearers of the fleece
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Jean De La Fontaine