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Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3)

© William Cowper

Night! how I love thy silent shades,
My spirits they compose;
The bliss of heaven my soul pervades,
In spite of all my woes.

The Debate In The Sennit

© James Russell Lowell

SOT TO A NUSRY RHYME

'Here we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder!

Grabschrift Marianae Gryphiae,

© Andreas Gryphius

Geboren in der Flucht, umringt mit Schwert und Brand,

Schier in dem Rauch erstickt, der Mutter herbes Pfand,

THESE many years since we began to be,
What have the gods done with us? what with me,
What with my love? they have shown me fates and fears,
Harsh springs, and fountains bitterer than the sea,
Grief a fixed star, and joy a vane that veers,
These many years.

A flame is in my blood

© Osip Emilevich Mandelstam

A flame is in my blood
burning dry life, to the bone.
I do not sing of stone,
now, I sing of wood.

Reading Laozi

© Bai Juyi

Those who speak do not know, those who know are silent,
I heard this saying from the old gentleman.
If the old gentleman was one who knew the way,
Why did he feel able to write five thousand words?

Daddy What If?

© Sheldon Allan Silverstein

(Daddy what if the sun stop shinin' what would happen then?)

If the sun stopped shinin' you'd be so surprised

The Wreck Of The Birkenhead,

© Frances Anne Kemble

As well as I am able, I'll relate how it befell,
And I trust, sirs, you'll excuse me, if I do not speak it well.
I've lived a hard and wandering life, serving our gracious Queen,
And have nigh forgot my schooling since a soldier I have been.

Lynchers

© Madison Julius Cawein

At the moon's down-going let it be

On the quarry hill with its one gnarled tree.

The Crow

© Virna Sheard

Hail, little herald!--Art thou then returning
From summer lands, this wild and wind-torn day?
Hast brought the word for which our hearts are yearning,
That spring is on the way?
Hark! Now there comes a clear, insistent calling,

My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet

© Robert Burns

My love, she's but a lassie yet,
My love, she's but a lassie yet!
We'll let her stand a year or twa,
She'll no be half sae saucy yet!

To His Verse

© Robert Herrick

What will ye, my poor orphans, do,

When I must leave the world and you;

The Berriers

© Madison Julius Cawein

MORN.

Down silver precipices drawn

Baucis And Philemon

© Jonathan Swift

IN ancient times, as story tells,
The saints would often leave their cells,
And stroll about, but hide their quality,
To try good people's hospitality.

Psalm LXXXVI. (86)

© John Milton

Thy gracious ear, O Lord, encline,
O hear me I thee pray,
For I am poor, and almost pine
With need, and sad decay.

Davy Jones' Door-Bell

A Chant for Boys with Manly Voices

(Every line sung one step deeper than the line preceding)

On St. David's Day

To Mrs. E.C. Morrieson

The Good Of It

SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold,
Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame;
I creep along, braving hunger and cold,
To keep my heart stainless as well as my name;
So, so, where is the good of it?

Horatian Lyrics Odes I, 11.

© Eugene Field

What end the gods may have ordained for me,
And what for thee,
Seek not to learn, Leuconoe; we may not know;
Chaldean tables cannot bring us rest--
'Tis for the best
To bear in patience what may come, or weal or woe.