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From all division let our land be free, For God has made her one: complete she lies Within the unbroken circle of the skies,And round her indivisible the seaBreaks on her single shore; while only we, Her foster children, bound with sacred ties Of one dear blood, one storied enterprise,Are negligent of her integrity

Australia

© William Gay

She sits a queen whom none shall dare despoil, Her crown the sun, her guard the vigilant sea, And round her throne are gathered, stalwart, free,A people proud, yet stooping to the soil,Patient to swell her greatness with their toil, And swift to leave, should dire occasion be, The mine, the flock, the desk, the furrowed lea,And force the invader to a dark recoil

The Beggar's Opera

© John Gay

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Our Crocodile

© Garnett Richard

Our crocodile, (Psammarathis,A priest at Ombi, told me this,)Our crocodile is good and dear,And eats a damsel once a year

Even-Star

© Garnett Richard

First-born and final relic of the night,I dwell aloof in dim immensity;The grey sky sparkles with my fairy light;I mix among the dancers of the sea;Yet stoop not from the throne I must retainHigh o'er the silver sources of the rain

To Mr. Blanchard, the Celebrated Aeronaut

© Philip Morin Freneau

Nil Mortalibus ard unum lestCoelum ipsum petimus stuttistra. HORACE.

Abdul Abulbul Ameer

© William Percy French

The sons of the Prophet are brave men and boldAnd quite unaccustomed to fearBut the bravest by far in the ranks of the ShahWas Abdul Abulbul Ameer

City of Huge Buildings

© Frank Florence Kiper

City of huge buildings into which men have poured their souls,City of innumerable schools where little children are taught and cared for,City of the great University, discussing solemn and learned questions,City of well-dressed, beautiful women, sleek, satisfied, sure of their clothes and of themselves,And their husbands sleek and satisfied also:I, a common prostitute, in the wan morning buying cocaine,Ask you the meaning of it all

Christ's Triumph after Death

© Giles Fletcher The Younger

IBegan to glister in her beams, and nowThe roses of the day began to flow'rIn th' eastern garden; for Heav'ns smiling browHalf insolent for joy begun to show: The early Sun came lively dancing out, And the brag lambs ran wantoning about,That heav'n, and earth might seem in triumph both to shout

Oak and Olive

© Flecker James Elroy

I And bred in Gloucestershire,I walked in Hellas years ago With friends in white attire:And I remember how my soul Drank wine as pure as fire.

No Coward's Song

© Flecker James Elroy

I am afraid to think about my death,When it shall be, and whether in great painI shall rise up and fight the air for breathOr calmly wait the bursting of my brain.

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

© Edward Fitzgerald

IHas flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caughtThe Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

The Tree

© Anne Finch - Countess of Winchilsea

Fair tree! for thy delightful shade'Tis just that some return be made;Sure some return is due from meTo thy cool shadows, and to thee

Magwere, Who Waits Wondering

INear the edge of the big swamp where cane rats live,Grew Magwere the mealie.

The Doubt of Future Foes

© Elizabeth I

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy;For falsehood now doth flow, and subjects' faith doth ebb,Which should not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web

"O May I Join the Choir Invisible"

© George Eliot

Longum illud tempus, quum non ero, magis me movet, quam hoc exigium.

The Death of the Wolf

© Toru Dutt

Written in the chateau of M * * *

© John Dryden

The longest tyranny that ever sway'dWas that wherein our ancestors betray'dTheir free-born reason to the Stagirite,And made his torch their universal light