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Vidrik Verlandson (From The Old Danish)

© George Borrow

King Diderik sits in the halls of Bern,
And he boasts of his deeds of might;
So many a swain in battle hes felld,
And taken so many a knight.

Vanity Of Life

© John Newton

The evils that beset our path
Who can prevent or cure?
We stand upon the brink of death
When most we seem secure.

Verses, Supposed To Be Written By Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode In The Island Of Juan

© William Cowper

I am monarch of all I survey;

My right there is none to dispute;

Vision

© Joyce Kilmer

(For Aline)Homer, they tell us, was blind and could not see the beautiful
faces
Looking up into his own and reflecting the joy of his dream,
Yet did he seem

Verses

© Anne Kingsmill Finch

Observe this Piece, which to our Sight does bring
The fittest Posture for the Swedish King;
(Encompass'd, as we think, with Armies round,
Tho' not express'd within this narrow Bound)

Virtue is Its Own Reward

© Harry Graham

Virtue its own reward? Alas!
And what a poor one as a rule!
Be Virtuous and Life will pass
Like one long term of Sunday-School.
(No prospect, truly, could one find
More unalluring to the mind.)

Very True, the Linnets Sing

© Walter Savage Landor

Very true, the linnets sing
Sweetest in the leaves of spring:
You have found in all these leaves
That which changes and deceives,

"Vision of peace, Joy without stain"

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Vision of peace, Joy without stain,
That on my vext heart sweetly shinest,
Hast thou, too, known the touch of pain,
Cares and dark hours, when in vain
For thy lost quiet thou repinest?

Vomit

© Russell Edson

The house grows sick in its dining room and begins to vomit.
Father cries, the dining room is vomiting.
No wonder, the way you eat, it's enough to make anybody sick,
says his wife.

Voices Of The Night : Flowers

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the Castle Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden
Stars, that in the earth's firmament do shine.

Verses Sent To The Corps Of Wantage Volunteer Cavalry On Their Offering Their Services In Any Part O

© Henry James Pye

When loud Invasion with infuriate roar,

With boastful threatening shakes Britannia's shore;

VI: To The Same

© Benjamin Jonson

Kisse mee, Sweet: The wary lover

Can your favours keepe, and cover,

My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps
To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps
You'd care to join us? In a pig's arse, friend.
Day comes to an end.
The gas fire breathes, the trees are darkly swayed.
And so Dear Warlock-Williams: I'm afraid-

View From The Inner City

© Barry Tebb

Leeds this silent solemn Sunday

Virginia

Fragments of a Lay Sung in the Forum on the Day Whereon Lucius Sextius Sextinus Lateranus and Caius Licinius Calvus Stolo Were Elected Tribunes of the Commons the Fifth Time, in the Year of the City CCCLXXXII.

Ye good men of the Commons, with loving hearts and true,