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A Ballad Of The Kind Little Creatures

Richard Le Gallienne
I had no where to go,
I had no money to spend:
"O come with me," the Beaver said,
"I live at the world's end."

"Does the world ever end!"
To the Beaver then said I:...
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Available Languages: English

A Ballad To The Tune Of The Cut-Purse

Jonathan Swift
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WRITTEN IN AUGUST, 1702


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Once on a time, as old stories rehearse,
A friar would need show his talent in Latin;
But was sorely put to 't in the midst of a verse,...
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Available Languages: English

A Ballad With A Serious Conclusion

James Whitcomb Riley
Crowd about me, little children -
Come and cluster 'round my knee
While I tell a little story
That happened once with me.

My father he had gone away
A-sailing on the foam,...
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Available Languages: English

A Barkeeper's Coarse Complaint

Alfred Lichtenstein
It's enough to make me throw the chair through the panes of the
mirror Into the street -
There I sit with raised eyebrows:
All bars are full,
My bar is empty - isn't that terrific......
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Available Languages: English

A B C

Walter Crane
A, B, C, die Katze lief im Schnee,
Und wie sie wieder 'raus kam,
Da hatt' sie weisse Stieflein an:
O jemine, O jemine, O jemine, O je!

A, B, C, die Katze lief zur Hoh',...
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A, B, C.

Charles Stuart Calverley
A is an Angel of blushing eighteen:
B is the Ball where the Angel was seen:
C is her Chaperone, who cheated at cards:
D is the Deuxtemps, with Frank of the Guards:
E is the Eye which those dark lashes cover:...
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Available Languages: English

Abel And Cain

Charles Baudelaire
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Race of Abel, sleep and eat;
God smiles on you complacently.

Race of Cain, in mud and filth
You crawl and die in misery.

Abel's race, your sacrifice...
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Available Languages: English

A Belgian Christmas

Madison Cawein
The "happy year" of 1914

An hour from dawn:
The snow sweeps on
As it swept with sleet last night:
The Earth around
Breathes never a sound,
Wrapped in its shroud of white.
...
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Available Languages: English

A Birthday Tribute - To J. F. Clarke

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who is the shepherd sent to lead,
Through pastures green, the Master's sheep?
What guileless "Israelite indeed"
The folded flock may watch and keep?

He who with manliest spirit joins...
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Available Languages: English

A Bit Of Coast

Madison Cawein
One tree, storm-twisted, like an evil hag,
The sea-wind in its hair, beside a path
Waves frantic arms, as if in wild-witch wrath
At all the world. Gigantic, grey as slag,...
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Available Languages: English

A Bit Of Color

Arthur Macy
[PARIS, 1896]


Oh, damsel fair at the Porte Maillot,
With the soft blue eyes that haunt me so,
Pray what should I do
When a girl like you
Bestows her smile, her glance, and her sigh...
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Available Languages: English

A Boat Comes In

Edward Powys Mathers
Although I shall not see his face
For the low riding of the ship,
The three armorial oak-leaves on his cloak
Will be enough.
But what if I make a mistake
And call to the wrong man?...
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Available Languages: English

Abolition Of Slavery In The District Of Columbia, 1862

John Greenleaf Whittier
When first I saw our banner wave
Above the nation's council-hall,
I heard beneath its marble wall
The clanking fetters of the slave!
In the foul market-place I stood,
And saw the Christian mother sold,...
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Available Languages: English

A Botticelli Madonna III The Loving Christ

Ethel Allen Murphy
The little hands returning wistfully
From birdlike wand'rings, ever come to rest,
On fostering hand on tender cheek or breast;
The upturned eyes, with loving certainty...
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Available Languages: English

About Emma Lazarus. (Written For "The Century Magazine")

Emma Lazarus
Born July 22, 1849; Died November 19, 1887.



One hesitates to lift the veil and throw the light upon a life so
hidden and a personality so withdrawn as that of Emma Lazarus; but...
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Available Languages: English

Above Crow's Nest - Sydney

Henry Lawson
A blanket low and leaden,
Though rent across the west,
Whose darkness seems to deaden
The brightest and the best;
A sunset white and staring
On cloud-wrecks far away,...
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Available Languages: English

Above The Clouds.

Jean Ingelow
And can this be my own world?
'Tis all gold and snow,
Save where scarlet waves are hurled
Down yon gulf below.
'Tis thy world, 'tis my world,
City, mead, and shore,
For he that hath his own world...
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A Boy In Church

Robert Graves
"Gabble-gabble,... brethren,... gabble-gabble!"
My window frames forest and heather.
I hardly hear the tuneful babble,
Not knowing nor much caring whether
The text is praise or exhortation,...
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Available Languages: English

A Brook In The City

Robert Lee Frost
The firm house lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear A number in.
But what about the brook
That held the house as in an elbow-crook?...
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Available Languages: English

A Bush Christening

Banjo Paterson
On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few,
And men of religion are scanty,
On a road never cross'd 'cept by folk that are lost,
One Michael Magee had a shanty.
...
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Available Languages: English
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