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A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed.

Jonathan Swift
WRITTEN FOR THE HONOUR OF THE FAIR SEX. 1731


Corinna, pride of Drury-Lane,
For whom no shepherd sighs in vain;
Never did Covent-Garden boast
So bright a batter'd strolling toast!...
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Available Languages: English

A Cabin Tale - The Young Master Asks For A Story

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Whut you say, dah? huh, uh! chile,
You 's enough to dribe me wile.
Want a sto'y; jes' hyeah dat!
Whah' 'll I git a sto'y at?
Di'n' I tell you th'ee las' night?
Go 'way, honey, you ain't right....
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Available Languages: English

A Carol Presented To Dr. Williams, Bishop Of Lincoln As A New-Year's Gift.

Robert Herrick
Fly hence, pale care, no more remember
Past sorrows with the fled December,
But let each pleasant cheek appear
Smooth as the childhood of the year,
And sing a carol here....
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Available Languages: English

A Dan Yell

Henry Lawson
I wish I'd never gone to board
In that house where I met
The touring lady from abroad,
Who mocks my nightmares yet.
I wish, I wish that she had saved
Her news of what she'd seen,...
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Available Languages: English

Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, December 3, 1873

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hang out our banners on the stately tower
It dawns at last - the long-expected hour I
The steep is climbed, the star-lit summit won,
The builder's task, the artist's labor done;...
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Available Languages: English

A Dead Year.

Jean Ingelow
I took a year out of my life and story -
A dead year, and said, "I will hew thee a tomb!
'All the kings of the nations lie in glory;'
Cased in cedar, and shut in a sacred gloom;...
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Available Languages: English

Advice To A Young Author

Arthur Conan Doyle
First begin
Taking in.
Cargo stored,
All aboard,
Think about
Giving out.
Empty ship,
Useless trip!

Never strain
Weary brain,
Hardly fit,
Wait a bit!
After rest...
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Available Languages: English

A Few Short Years From Now.

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Say, art thou angry? words unkind
Have fallen upon thine ear,
Thy spirit hath been wounded too
By mocking jest or sneer,
But mind it not - relax at once
Thine o'ercast and troubled brow -...
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Available Languages: English

After Fifty Years

Pamela S. Vining
A MOTHER'S ADDRESS TO HER FAMILY ON HER GOLDEN-WEDDING DAY.


Just fifty years, my daughters,
Just fifty years, my son,
Since your sire and I together
The march of life begun....
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Available Languages: English

After Many Years

Henry Kendall
The song that once I dreamed about,
The tender, touching thing,
As radiant as the rose without
The love of wind and wing
The perfect verses, to the tune
Of woodland music set,...
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Available Languages: English

After Nine Years

Algernon Charles Swinburne
To Joseph Mazzini.


Prim' dicte mihi, summ' dicende Camen'.

1.
The shadows fallen of years are nine
Since heaven grew seven times more divine
With thy soul entering, and the dearth...
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Available Languages: English

After Yesterday

A. R. Ammons
After yesterday
afternoon's blue
clouds and white rain
the mockingbird
in the backyard
untied the drops from
leaves and twigs
with a long singing.
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Available Languages: English

A Ghost Of Yesterday

Madison Cawein
There is a house beside a way,
Where dwells a ghost of Yesterday:
The old face of a beauty, faded,
Looks from its garden: and the shaded
Long walks of locust-trees, that seem...
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Available Languages: English

A Happy New Year

John (Dum-Dum) Kendall
11.30 P.M., DEC. 31


Friend, when the year is on the wing,
'Tis held a fair and comely thing
To turn reflective glances
Over the days' forbidden Scroll,
See if we're better on the whole,...
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Available Languages: English

Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?

Thomas Hardy
"Ah, are you digging on my grave
My loved one? planting rue?"
- "No: yesterday he went to wed
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
'It cannot hurt her now,' he said,
'That I should not be true.'"
...
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Available Languages: English

Ah! Did You Ever Hear The Spring

Richard Le Gallienne
Ah! did you ever hear the Spring
Calling you through the snow,
Or hear the little blackbird sing
Inside its egg - or go
To that green land where grass begins,
Each tiny seed, to grow?
...
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Available Languages: English

Ah! Happy Was I Yesternight.

W. M. MacKeracher
Ah! happy was I yesternight
I trod the paths of love
Within Elysian fields of bliss,
Enchanted bowers above.

A heavenly maiden by my side,
So wondrous fair that e'en...
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Available Languages: English

Ah! Yet Consider It Again!

Arthur Hugh Clough
'Old things need not be therefore true,'
O brother men, nor yet the new;
Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,
And yet consider it again!

The souls of now two thousand years,...
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Available Languages: English

A Leap Year Episode.

Hattie Howard
Such oranges! so fresh and sweet,
So large and lovely - and so cheap!
They lay in one delicious heap,
And added to the sumptuous feast
For each and all in taste expert
The acme of all fine dessert;...
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Available Languages: English

Alec Yeaton's Son

Thomas Aldrich
GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720

The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned,
And the white caps flecked the sea;
"An' I would to God," the skipper groaned,
"I had not my boy with me!"
...
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Available Languages: English
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