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Thro Grief And Thro Danger

© Thomas Moore

THRO grief and thro danger thy smile hath cheerd my way,

Till hope seemd to bud from each thorn that round me lay;

Baby Villon

© Philip Levine

He tells me in Bangkok he’s robbed
Because he’s white; in London because he’s black;
In Barcelona, Jew; in Paris, Arab:
Everywhere and at all times, and he fights back.

Song Of The Furies

© Aeschylus

Up and lead the dance of Fate!

Lift the song that mortals hate!

The Look

© Sara Teasdale

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Rendez-vous

© Charles Cros

Ma belle amie est morte,
Et voilà quon la porte
En terre, ce matin,
En souliers de satin.

Maple Syrup

© Donald Hall

August, goldenrod blowing. We walk

into the graveyard, to find

Sonnet To George Keats: Written In Sickness

© John Keats

Brother belov'd if health shall smile again,
Upon this wasted form and fever'd cheek:
If e'er returning vigour bid these weak
And languid limbs their gladsome strength regain,

They are hostile nations

© Margaret Atwood

In view of the fading animals
the proliferation of sewers and fears
the sea clogging, the air
nearing extinction

The Butterfly

© Augusta Davies Webster

VIATOR loquitur

"Royal in purple and gold and red,

from The Vanity of Human Wishes

© Henry James Pye

Yet still one genral cry the skies assails,
And gain and grandeur load the tainted gales,
Few know the toiling statesmans fear or care,
Th insidious rival and the gaping heir.

The Philosophic Pill

© William Schwenck Gilbert

I've wisdom from the East and from the West,

That's subject to no academic rule;

From 'Love And The Universe'

© Albert Durrant Watson

THE voiceless symphony of moor and highland,

The rainbow on the mist,

Sea Fever

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,

And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;

A Riddle

© Anonymous

Legs I have got, yet seldom do I walk;
I backbite many, yet I never talk:
In secret places most I seek to hide me,
For he who feeds me never can abide me.

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

Marsh Song -- At Sunset.

Over the monstrous shambling sea,
Over the Caliban sea,
Bright Ariel-cloud, thou lingerest:
Oh wait, oh wait, in the warm red West, --
Thy Prospero I'll be.

from The Bridge: The Tunnel

© Hart Crane

Or can’t you quite make up your mind to ride;
A walk is better underneath the L a brisk
Ten blocks or so before? But you find yourself
Preparing penguin flexions of the arms,—
As usual you will meet the scuttle yawn:
The subway yawns the quickest promise home.