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Upon the Infant Martyrs

© Richard Crashaw

To see both blended in one flood,
The mothers’ milk, the children’s blood,
Make me doubt if heaven will gather
Roses hence, or lilies rather.

And twelve o'clock arrived just once too often,
just the same he wore one gray tweed suit, bought one straw hat, drank one straight Scotch, walked one short step, took one long look, drew one deep breath,
just one too many,

The Rivers

© Felicia Dorothea Hemans

GO! trace th' unnumbered streams, o'er earth
That wind their devious course,
That draw from Alpine heights their birth,
Deep vale, or cavern source.

Nomad Exquisite

© Edwin Muir

As the immense dew of Florida

Brings forth

The Perfect Hat

© William Henry Ogilvie

The Bowler and the Wide-awake,
The Topper and the Straw,
The Homburg and the Helmet

The Ghost of Heaven

© Carolyn Forche

Sleep to sleep through thirty years of night,
a child herself with child,
for whom we searched

At Camelot.

© Robert Crawford

Her maiden eyes were redolent of love,
Warm-bosomed as she breathed the passioned air
Of old romance, and did in fancy move
'Mong the gay knights who died for ladies fair;

Myrrha to the Source

© Heather McHugh

O fluent one, o muscle full of hydrogen,
o stuff of grief, whom the Greeks
accuse of spoiling souls,

Where I've Been All My Life

© John Betjeman

Off Rough Point

© Emma Lazarus

We sat at twilight nigh the sea,
The fog hung gray and weird.
Through the thick film uncannily
The broken moon appeared.

In Celebration

© Mark Strand

You sit in a chair, touched by nothing, feeling

the old self become the older self, imagining

The Joy Of The Lord Is Your Strength

© John Newton

Joy is a fruit that will not grow
In nature's barren foil;
All we can boast, till Christ we know,
Is vanity and toil.

Drinking

© Li Yu

Last night, the wind and rain -

Those autumnal sounds

Prejudice

How strangely blind is prejudice, the Negro's greatest foe!
It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know.
'Tis blind to all that's lofty, yea, to truth it is opposed,
Degrading things will ope his eyes, while good will keep them closed.