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Unnumbered Ward

© James Schuyler

And accustomed ungentle hands of two blue-uniformed attendants

wrap the patient in suffering’s white bed gown

Homer's Battle Of The Frogs And Mice. Book I

So pass'd Europa thro' the rapid Sea,
Trembling and fainting all the vent'rous Way;
With oary Feet the Bull triumphant rode,
And safe in Crete depos'd his lovely Load.
Ah safe at last! may thus the Frog support
My trembling Limbs to reach his ample Court.

The Secret

© Pierre Reverdy

We have a secret, just we three,
The robin, and I, and the sweet cherry-tree;
The bird told the tree, and the tree told me,
And nobody knows it but just us three.

As If A Phantom Caress'd Me

© Walt Whitman

As if a phantom caress'd me,

I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore;

The Stockman's Last Bed

© Anonymous

Be ye stockmen or no, to my story give ear.
Alas! for poor Jack, no more shall we hear
The crack of his stockwhip, his steed's lively trot,
His clear "Go ahead, boys," his jingling quart pot.

Dolly

© Robert Bloomfield

The Bat began with giddy wing
His circuit round the Shed, the Tree;
And clouds of dancing Gnats to sing
A summer-night's serenity.

I Shall Not Die For Thee

© Douglas Hyde

FOR thee, I shall not die,

Woman of high fame and name;

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier

© Rupert Brooke

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Lines In Memory Of Edmund Morris

© Duncan Campbell Scott

How shall we transmit in tendril-like images,
The tenuous tremor in the tissues of ether,
Before the round of colour buds like the dome of a shrine,
The preconscious moment when love has fluttered in the bosom,
Before it begins to ache?

Poems, Chiefly Scientific

© Eli Siegel

1. To Settle As Chalk
Blankness and thickness
Took a walk;
And while walking decided

Picture of a Nativity

© Geoffrey Hill

Sea-preserved, heaped with sea-spoils,
Ribs, keels, coral sores,
Detached faces, ephemeral oils,
Discharged on the world’s outer shores,

Almswomen

© Edmund Blunden

Many a time they kiss and cry, and pray
That both be summoned in the self-same day,
And wiseman linnet tinkling in his cage
End too with them the friendship of old age,
And all together leave their treasured room
Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom.

A Valediction of the Book

© John Donne

I’ll tell thee now (dear Love) what thou shalt do

To anger destiny, as she doth us,

Delia L

© Samuel Daniel

Let others sing of knights and paladins

In agèd accents, and untimely words;

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd a way!

A Farewell

© Edith Nesbit

Good-bye, good-bye; it is not hard to part!
You have my heart--the heart that leaps to hear
Your name called by an echo in a dream;
You have my soul that, like an untroubled stream,
Reflects your soul that leans so dear, so near -
Your heartbeats set the rhythm for my heart.