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Nathan The Wise - Act II

© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

But out of my dilemma
'Tis not so easy to escape unhurt.
Well, you must have the knight.

Now I was hangin' round Nashville writin' songs and playin' 'em for all of the stars
Watchin' 'em laugh and hand 'em back livin' on hope and Hershey bars
So I pawned my guitar and bought a ticket home and I's headin' for the Trailway bus
When I seen an old fountain pen laying in the gutter so I stopped and picked it up

The Coming By-and-By

© William Schwenck Gilbert

Silvered is the raven hair,
Spreading is the parting straight,
Mottled the complexion fair,
Halting is the youthful gait,

Stinkomalee Triumphans

© Richard Harris Barham

WHENE'ER with pitying eye I view
Each operative sot in town.
I smile to think how wondrous few
Get drunk who study at the U-
-niversity we've Got in town,
-niversity we've Got in town.

Die Mutter

© Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Strenge Phyllis dich zu kuessen,

Dich ein einzigmal zu kuessen,

An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras To His Lady

© Samuel Butler

I who was once as great as Caesar,

Am now reduc'd to Nebuchadnezzar;

Joan Of Arc, In Rheims

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Thou hast a charmed cup, O Fame!
A draught that mantles high,
And seems to lift this earth-born frame
Above mortality:
Away! to me a woman bring
Sweet waters from affection's spring.

Stellas Birth-Day. 1724-5

© Jonathan Swift

As when a beauteous nymph decays,
We say she's past her dancing days;
So poets lose their feet by time,
And can no longer dance in rhyme.

Male Phoenix Pleads With Female Phoenix

© Ssu-mu Hsiang-ju

Lady phoenix, lady phoenix: come with me and nest,
be supported, breed with me, forever be my wife,
exchange love in the usual way, our hearts harmonious:
at midnight if you follow me who will know?
Our wings together will rise, fluttering as high we fly.
If your are unmoved by my feelings, I will be miserable.

The Sea Wind

© Sara Teasdale

I am a pool in a peaceful place,
I greet the great sky face to face,
I know the stars and the stately moon
And the wind that runs with rippling shoon-
But why does it always bring to me
The far-off, beautiful sound of the sea?

Fragments - Lines 0983 - 0988

© Theognis of Megara

Let us devote our hearts to merriment and feasting
While the enjoyment of delights still brings pleasure.
For quick as thought does radiant youth pass by;
Nor does the rush of horses prove to be swifter
When carrying their master to the labor of men's spears
With furious energy, taking joy in the plain that brings forth wheat.

Motto

© Langston Hughes

I play it cool
I dig all jive
That's the reason
I stay alive

To Build A Quiet City In His Mind

© Weldon Kees

To build a quiet city in his mind:
A single overwhelming wish; to build,
Not hastily, for there is so much wind,
So many eager smilers to be killed,
Obstructions one might overlook in haste:
The ruined structures cluttering the past,

The Laurustinus

Fair tree of winter! fresh and flowering,

When all around is dead and dry;

A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XVII

For lo! the nations, the imperial nations
Of Europe, all imagine a vain thing,
Sitting thus blindly in their generations,
Serving an idol for their God and King.

Dover Cliffs

On these white cliffs, that calm above the flood

Uprear their shadowing heads, and at their feet

Faun's Head

Among the foliage, green casket flecked with gold;
in the uncertain foliage that blossoms
with gorgeous flowers where sleeps the kiss,
vivid, and bursting through the sumptuous tapestry,
a startled faun shows his two eyes
and bites the crimson flowers with his white teeth.