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St. Alphonsus Rodriguez by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Laybrother of the Society of Jesus
Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say;
And those stroke..
Summa by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The best ideal is the true
And other truth is none.
All glory be ascrib?d to
The holy Three in..
Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Earnest, earthless, equal, attuneable, ’ vaulty, voluminous, ... stupendous
Evening strains to be t..
Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s..
Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With..
Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s..
Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With..
Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law by Adrienne Rich
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You, once a belle in Shreveport,
with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud,
still have yo..
Stepping Backward by Adrienne Rich
Good-by to you whom I shall see tomorrow,
Next year and when I’m fifty; still good-by.
This is the..
Shattered Head by Adrienne Rich
A life hauls itself uphill
through hoar-mist steaming
the sun’s tongue licking
leaf upon leaf int..
Solitude by Alexander Pope
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
..
Sound And Sense by Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
..
Solitude: An Ode by Alexander Pope
I.
How happy he, who free from care
The rage of courts, and noise of towns;
Contented breaths..
Summer by Alexander Pope
See what delights in sylvan scenes appear!
Descending Gods have found Elysium here.
In woods brig..
Santa Claus by Andrew Barton Paterson
"HALT! Who goes there?” The sentry’s call
Rose on the midnight air
Above the noises of the camp,..
Sunrise on the Coast by Andrew Barton Paterson
Grey dawn on the sand-hills -- the night wind has drifted
All night from the rollers a scent of th..
Swinging the Lead by Andrew Barton Paterson
Said the soldier to the Surgeon, "I’ve got noises in me head
And a kind o’ filled up feeling after..
Santa Claus in the Bush by Andrew Barton Paterson
It chanced out back at the Christmas time,
When the wheat was ripe and tall,
A stranger rode to..
"Shouting" for a Camel by Andrew Barton Paterson
It was over at Coolgardie that a mining speculator,
Who was going down the township just to make a..
Saltbush Bill's Gamecock by Andrew Barton Paterson
’Twas Saltbush Bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way to town;
He crossed them over t..
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