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Bantams in Pine-Woods

© Edwin Muir

Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan

Of tan with henna hackles, halt!

Invitation to Love

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it rest
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

Rules For The Road

© Edwin Markham

Stand straight:
Step firmly, throw your weight:
The heaven is high above your head,
The good gray road is faithful to your tread.

Let us consider the farmer who makes his straw hat his
sweetheart; or the old woman who makes a floor lamp her son;
or the young woman who has set herself the task of scraping
her shadow off a wall....

Ninny Nanny Netticoat

© Beatrix Potter

Ninny Nanny Netticoat,
In a white petticoat,
With a red nose, -
The longer she stands,
The shorter she grows.

Sonnet CXXXIX: O, call not me to justify the wrong

© William Shakespeare

O, call not me to justify the wrong

That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;

Human Life, On The Denial Of Immortality

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom
Swallow up life's brief flash for aye, we fare
As summer-gusts, of sudden birth and doom,
Whose sound and motion not alone declare,

Travel Papers

© Carolyn Forche

Au silence de celle qui laisse rêveur.
—René Char
By boat to Seurasaari where
the small fish were called vendace.
A man blew a horn of birchwood
toward the nightless sea.

The Passing Show

© Ambrose Bierce

I
I know not if it was a dream. I viewed
A city where the restless multitude,
Between the eastern and the western deep
Had reared gigantic fabrics, strong and rude.

Charms for Love

© Pierre Reverdy

Sweet boy
don't send so much longing—
send a little less
and come with it yourself

Moral Lessons From Natural Facts

© Confucius

All true words fly, as from yon reedy marsh
The crane rings o'er the wild its screaming harsh.
Vainly you try reason in chains to keep;--
Freely it moves as fish sweeps through the deep.

Currants On A Bush

© Christina Georgina Rossetti

Currants on a bush,
And figs upon a stem,
And cherries on a bending bough,
And Ned to gather them.

The Lost Pilot

© James Tate

for my father, 1922-1944
Your face did not rot
like the others—the co-pilot,
for example, I saw him

Philosophy

© Nissim Ezekiel

There is a place to which I often go,
Not by planning to, but by a flow
Away from all existence, to a cold
Lucidity, whose will is uncontrolled.
Here, the mills of God are never slow.

Over the Roofs

Oh chimes set high on the sunny tower
Ring on, ring on unendingly,
Make all the hours a single hour,
For when the dusk begins to flower,
The man I love will come to me! ...

George Moore

So far as the future is concerned,
Shall not one say, with the Russian philosopher,
How is one to know what one doesnt know?
So far as the present is concerned,

A Wood Song

Now one and all, you Roses,
Wake up, you lie too long!
This very morning closes
The Nightingale his song;

Alls Well

The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake

Our thirsty souls with rain;

Poems

© Anselm Hollo

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thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger. I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter; I forgot that there abides the old in the new, and that there also thou abidest.
Through birth and death, in this world or in others, wherever thou leadest me it is thou, the same, the one companion of my endless life who ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar. When one knows thee, then alien there is none, then no door is shut. Oh, grant me my prayer that I may never lose the bliss of the touch of the One in the play of the many.
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There's A Moon Inside My Body

© Kabir

THE moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:
The moon is within me, and so is the sun.
The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.