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Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time]

© William Wordsworth

OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze,

A visitant that while it fans my cheek

The Man Who Couldn't Save

© Edgar Albert Guest

He spent what he made, or he gave it away,

Tried to save money, and would for a day,

Don Juan: Canto The Sixteenth

© George Gordon Byron

The antique Persians taught three useful things,

To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.

My Birthday

© Charles Lamb

A dozen years since in this house what commotion,
What bustle, what stir, and what joyful ado;
Every soul in the family at my devotion,
When into the world I came twelve years ago.

Don Juan: Canto The Eighth

© George Gordon Byron

Oh blood and thunder! and oh blood and wounds!

These are but vulgar oaths, as you may deem,

Generous, and ardent, and as romantic as he could be,
Montorio was in his earliest youth, when, on a summer-
evening, not many years ago, he arrived at the Baths of
* * *. With a heavy heart, and with many a blessing on

Religious Musings : A Desultory Poem Written On The Christmas Eve Of 1794

© Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What tho' first,
In years unseason'd, I attuned the lay
To idle passion and unreal woe?
Yet serious truth her empire o'er my song

The Stick-Together Families

© Edgar Albert Guest

The stick-together families are happier by far
Than the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.
The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make
A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break.
And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun
Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done.

The Cenci : A Tragedy In Five Acts

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

Scene I.
-An Apartment in the Cenci Palace.
Enter Count Cenci, and Cardinal Camillo.

Lac Souci

© William Henry Drummond

Talk about lakes! deres none dat lies in

Laurentide mountain or near de sea,

The Winner

© Sheldon Allan Silverstein

The hulk of a man with a beer in his hand looked like a drunk old fool,
And I knew that if I hit him right, I could knock him off that stool.
But everybody said, "Watch out, that's Tiger Man McCool.
He's had a whole lot of fights, and he always come out the winner.
Yeah, he's a winner."

Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Power. Book III.

© Matthew Prior

Come then, my soul: I call thee by that name,
Thou busy thing, from whence I know I am;
For, knowing that I am, I know thou art,
Since that must needs exist which can impart:
But how thou camest to be, or whence thy spring,
For various of thee priests and poets sing.

Lazy Man's Song

© Bai Juyi

I could have a job, but am too lazy to choose it;

I have got land, but am too lazy to farm it.

The Monitions of the Unseen

© Jean Ingelow

Now, in an ancient town, that had sunk low,-
Trade having drifted from it, while there stayed
Too many, that it erst had fed, behind,-
There walked a curate once, at early day.

The Lord Is His Devotees' Slave

© Sant Surdas

Whatever is a devotee's
caste, clan, family, or name,
Rama's love for him is the same.

Josephs Dreams and Reuben's Brethren [A Recital in Six Chapters]

© Henry Lawson

CHAPTER I

I cannot blame old Israel yet,

The Society Upon The Stanislaus

I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;
I am not up to small deceit or any sinful games;
And I'll tell in simple language what I know about the row
That broke up our Society upon the Stanislow.