Ye Commons and Peers,
Pray lend me your ears,
I'll sing you a song, (if I can,)
How Lewis le Grand
Was put to a stand,
By the arms of our gracious Queen Anne.

I rosebecause He sank

© Emily Dickinson

I rosebecause He sank
I thought it would be opposite
But when his power dropped
My Soul grew straight.

The Return Of Youth

© William Cullen Bryant

My friend, thou sorrowest for thy golden prime,

For thy fair youthful years too swift of flight;

One Home

© William Stafford

Mine was a Midwest homeyou can keep your world.
Plain black hats rode the thoughts that made our code.
We sang hymns in the house; the roof was near God.

Elegy XVI: The Expostulation

© John Donne

TO make the doubt clear, that no woman's true,

Was it my fate to prove it strong in you?

The Bells

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

T is but a wave, whose spreading circle beats,
With the same impulse, every nerve it meets,
Yet who shall count the varied shapes that ride
On the round surge of that aerial tide!

The Legion Dispossessed

© John Newton

Legion was my name by nature,

Satan raged within my breast;

In Southern Seas

© Dora Sigerson Shorter

In southern seas we sailed, my love and I,

In southern seas.

There Is A Bondage Worse, Far Worse, To Bear

THERE is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear
Than his who breathes, by roof, and floor, and wall,
Pent in, a Tyrant's solitary Thrall:
'Tis his who walks about in the open air,

For Myself Alone, I Would Not Be

"For myself alone, I would not be
Ambitious in my wish; but, for you,
I would be trebled twenty times myself;
A thousand times more fair,
Ten thousand times more rich."

The First Of April

© Charles Lamb

"Tell me what is the reason you hang down your head?
From your blushes I plainly discern
You have done something wrong. Ere you go up to bed,
I desire that the truth I may learn."