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The Fairest, Brightest, Hues Of Ether Fade

© William Wordsworth

The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade;
The sweetest notes must terminate and die;
O Friend! thy flute has breathed a harmony
Softly resounded through this rocky glade;

Under a Statue of Peisander, Who Wrote the Labours of Heracles

© Theocritus

He whom ye gaze on was the first
That in quaint song the deeds rehearsed
Of him whose arm was swift to smite,
Who dared the lion to the fight:

I stood upon the peak, amid the air;
Below me lay the peopled, busy earth.
Life, life, and life again was everywhere,
And everywhere were melody and mirth,
Save on that peak, and silence brooded there.

Night Thoughts In Age

© John Hall Wheelock

Light, that out of the west looked back once more

Through lids of cloud, has closed a sleepy eye;

The Flag of our Destinies

© Henry Lawson

With our boundaries swung to the circling seas and a nation named to the world!
And the six-starred flag of our destinies on every port unfurled!
God grant from Greed or the dust of sleep or the right by a lie maintained
From all save our blood, if we must, well keep the silver and blue unstained!

The Kalevala - Rune XXXIII

© Elias Lönnrot

KULLERVO AND THE CHEAT-CAKE.

My Garden

© Emily Dickinson

New feet within my garden go
New fingers stir the sod
A Troubadour upon the Elm
Betrays the solitude.

Speech For Psyche In The Golden Book Of Apuleius

© Ezra Pound

All night, and as the wind lieth among

The cypress trees, he lay,

Dearest, this one day we own

© Augusta Davies Webster

DEAREST, this one day we own,
Stolen from the crowd and press,
Let it be sweet silence's.
We two, heart in heart, alone;
Any speech were less.

Before Action

© Leon Gellert

We always had to do our work at night.
I wondered why we had to be so sly.
I wondered why we couldn't have our fight
Under the open sky.

Like Crusoe, Walking By The Lonely Strand

© Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Like Crusoe, walking by the lonely strand

And seeing a human footprint on the sand,

The Waterfall

© Henry Kendall

THE SONG of the water
Doomed ever to roam,
A beautiful exile,
Afar from its home.

Bowed With a Sense of Sin

© Augustus Montague Toplady

Bowed with a sense of sin, I faint
Beneath the complicated load;
Father, attend my deep complaint,
I am Thy creature, Thou my God.

Christmas Song of the Old Children

© George MacDonald

Well for youth to seek the strong,
Beautiful, and brave!
We, the old, who walk along
Gently to the grave,
Only pay our court to thee,
Child of all Eternity!

Returning To Brussels

Upon a Flemish road, when noon was deep,

I passed a little consecrated shrine,

To The Gnat

When by the green-wood side, at summer eve,
Poetic visions charm my closing eye;
And fairy-scenes, that Fancy loves to weave,
Shift to wild notes of sweetest Minstrelsy;

Upon A Sheet Of White Paper

© John Bunyan

This subject is unto the foulest pen,
Or fairest handled by the sons of men.
'Twill also show what is upon it writ,
Be it wisely, or nonsense for want of wit,
Each blot and blur it also will expose
To thy next readers, be they friends or foes.

Until You've Found Pain

Until you've found pain, you won't reach the cure
Until you've given up life, you won't unite with
the supreme soul
Until you've found fire inside yourself, like the Friend,
You won't reach the spring of life, like Khezr.