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Of The Nature Of Things: Book II - Part 04 - Absence Of Secondary Qualities

© Lucretius

Next, they who deem that feeling objects can
From feeling objects be create, and these,
In turn, from others that are wont to feel

On Landor's "Hellenics"

© William Watson

Come hither, who grow cloyed to surfeiting

With lyric draughts o'ersweet, from rills that rise

An Irregular Ode, After Sickness

© William Shenstone

-Melius, bunny venerit ipsa, canemus.-Virg.
Imitation.
His wish'd-for presence will improve the song.

Theres a new grace up on Boot Hill, where weve planted Rowdy Pete;
He died one evenin, sudden, with his leather on his feet;
He was Cactus Centers terror with that work of art, the Colt,
But, somehow, without warnin, he up and missed his holt.

To My Good Friend W. T. H. Howe

© Madison Julius Cawein

Friend, for the sake of loves we hold in common,

The love of books, of paintings, rhyme and fiction;

The Grand Ronde Valley

© Ella Higginson

AH me! I know how like a golden flower

The Grand Ronde valley lies this August night,

In the Depths of a Forest

© Henry Kendall

Oh! well may the winds with a saddening moan
Go fitfully over the branches so dreary;
And well may I kneel by the time-shattered stone,
And rejoice that a rest has been found for the weary.

The Extent of Cookery

© William Shenstone

Aliusque et idem.
Explanation.
Another and the Same.

'Blandula, Tenulla, Vagula'

© Ezra Pound

Soul, if She meet us there, will any rumour
Of havens more high and courts desirable
Lure us beyond the cloudy peak of Riva ?

Italy : 30. Rome

© Samuel Rogers

I am in Rome! Oft as the morning-ray
Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,
Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me?
And from within a thrilling voice replies,

The Road to Avernus Scene VII: Two Exhortations

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

Surely, in the great beginning God made all things good, and still
That soul-sickness men call sinning entered not without His will.
Nay, our wisest have asserted that, as shade enhances light,
Evil is but good perverted, wrong is but the foil of right.

Shop Girl

© Ezra Pound

For a moment she rested against me
Like a swallow half blown to the wall,
And they talk of Swinburne's women,
And the shepherdess meeting with Guido.
And the harlots of Baudelaire.

Once Upon A Time

Once upon a time, a king saw fit

to send this proclamation through the land:

La Cloche Du Soir

© Jules Verne

La barque s'enfuyait sur l'onde fugitive ;
La nuit se prolongeant comme un paisible soir
A la lune du ciel pâle, méditative,
Prêtait un doux abri dans son vêtement noir ;