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The Visionary

© Emily Jane Brontë

Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:

One alone looks out oer the snow-wreaths deep,

A Backward Look

© James Whitcomb Riley

As I sat smoking, alone, yesterday,

And lazily leaning back in my chair,

Limbo

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den
It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men--
For skimming in the wake it mock'd the care
Of the old Boat-God for his Farthing Fare;

Of The Nature Of Things: Book III - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal

© Lucretius

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know

That minds and the light souls of all that live

Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: I

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

When is life other than a tragedy,
Whether it is played in tears from the first scene,
In sable robes and grief's mute pageantry,
For loves that died ere they had ever been,

DEAR goddess of the shining shrine
Where all my votive tapers burn,
Where every gold-embroidered thought
And all my flowers of life are brought
--With many, alas! that are not mine--
What will you give me in return?

The Friend Of Humanity And The Rhymer

© Henry Austin Dobson

R. To hear you talk,
You'd make it easier to fly than walk.
You seem to think that rhyming is a thing
You can produce if you but touch a spring;

The Precipitate Cock And The Unappreciated Pearl

© Guy Wetmore Carryl

A rooster once pursued a worm

That lingered not to brave him,

Dryas

© André Marie de Chénier

'Tout est-il prêt? partons. Oui, le mât est dressé;
Adieu donc.' Sur les bancs le rameur est placé;
La voile, ouverte aux vents, s'enfle et s'agite et flotte;