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Plighted

© Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
Love for love's sake, - as mine to thee.

Father Ranney, the Cheese Pioneer

© James McIntyre

When Father Ranney left the States,

In Canada to try the fates,

Epigram - To John I Owed Great Obligation

© Matthew Prior

To John I owed great obligation,
But John unhappily thought fit
To publish it to all the nation:
Sure John and I are more than quit.

Mongst the worlds wonders, there doth yet remain
One greater than the rest, that's all those o're again,
And her own self beside: A Lady, whose soft breast
Is with vast honours soul and virtues life possest.

Sleep

© Archibald Lampman

If any man, with sleepless care oppressed,

On many a night had risen, and addressed

Vigils

© Aline Murray Kilmer

ONCE I knelt in my shining mail
Here by Thine altar all the night.
My heart beat proudly, my prayer rose loudly,
But I looked to my armor to win the fight.

"Tiempo, tiempo"

© Cesar Vallejo

Mediodía estancado entre relentes.
Bomba aburrida del cuartel achica
tiempo tiempo tiempo tiempo.

George Chapman:XI

© Algernon Charles Swinburne

HIGH priest of Homer, not elect in vain,

Deep trumpets blow before thee, shawms behind

The Deans Answer

© Jonathan Swift

The nymph who wrote this in an amorous fit,
I cannot but envy the pride of her wit,
Which thus she will venture profusely to throw
On so mean a design, and a subject so low.

St. Luke

© John Keble

Two clouds before the summer gale
In equal race fleet o'er the sky:
Two flowers, when wintry blasts assail,
Together pins, together die.

Once Gods Walked...

© Friedrich Hölderlin

Once gods walked among humans,
The splendid Muses and youthful Apollo
Inspired and healed us, just like you.
And you are to me as if one of the Holy Ones

Lines Written On Leaving New Rochelle

© Joseph Rodman Drake

WHENE'ER thy wandering footstep bends
Its pathway to the Hermit tree,
Among its cordial band of friends,
Sweet Mary! wilt thou number me?

Peace

© Swami Vivekananda

Behold, it comes in might,
The power that is not power,
The light that is in darkness,
The shade in dazzling light.

Les enfants pauvres (Poor Little Children)

Prenez garde à ce petit être ;
Il est bien grand, il contient Dieu.
Les enfants sont, avant de naître,
Des lumières dans le ciel bleu.

Voices Of The Night : Hymn To The Night

Aspasie, trillistos.
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!

On Sacrificing To The Kings Woo, Ching, And K'ang

© Confucius

The arm of Woo was full of might;
None could his fire withstand;
And Ching and K'ang stood forth to sight,
As kinged by God's own hand.

Sing Heigh-Ho!

There sits a bird on every tree;
Sing heigh-ho!
There sits a bird on every tree,
And courts his love as I do thee;
Sing heigh-ho, and heigh-ho!
Young maids must marry.

Moonlight

It will not hurt me when I am old,
A running tide where moonlight burned
Will not sting me like silver snakes;
The years will make me sad and cold,
It is the happy heart that breaks.