Richard Francis Burton

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  • 1.
    A POET writ a song of May
    That checked his breath awhile;
    He kept it for a summer day,
    Then spake with half a smile:
    ...
  • 2.
    HERE at the country inn,
    I lie in my quiet bed,
    And the ardent onrush of armies
    Throbs and throbs in my head.
    ...
  • 3.
    UNCONQUERABLY, men venture on the quest
    And seek an ocean amplitude unsailed,
    Cold, virgin, awful. Scorning ease and rest,
    And heedless of the heroes who have failed,
    ...
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In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 073
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So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be,
How know I what had need of thee,
For thou wert strong as thou wert true?

The fame is quench'd that I foresaw,
The head hath miss'd an earthly wreath:
I curse not nature, no, nor death;
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