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An answer to Various Bards by Andrew Barton Paterson
Well, I’ve waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in,
Mister Lawson, Mister Dyson, and..
After Prayers, Lie Cold by C. S. Lewis
Arise my body, my small body, we have striven
Enough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven.
Arise..
An Expostulation by C. S. Lewis
Against too many writers of science fiction
Why did you lure us on like this,
Light-year on li..
As the Ruin Falls by C. S. Lewis
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.
I never had a selfless thought since I was born.
I a..
Au Lecteur by Charles Baudelaire
La sottise, l’erreur, le péché, la lésine,
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
Et nous..
A FORMER LIFE by Charles Baudelaire
LONG since, I lived beneath vast porticoes,
By many ocean-sunsets tinged and fired,
Where mighty..
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
..
A Daughter Of Eve by Christina Rossetti
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A..
A Study (A Soul) by Christina Rossetti
She stands as pale as Parian statues stand;
Like Cleopatra when she turned at bay,
And felt her st..
A Better Ressurection by Christina Rossetti
I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for hopes or..
An Apple-Gathering by Christina Rossetti
I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree
And wore them all that evening in my hair:
Then in du..
At Home by Christina Rossetti
When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house:
I passed the door, and saw my..
A Pause by Christina Rossetti
They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves,
And the bed sweet with flowers on which I lay..
Aloof by Christina Rossetti
THE irresponsive silence of the land,
The irresponsive sounding of the sea,
Speak both one messa..
Adam's Complaint by Denise Levertov
Some people,
no matter what you give them,
still want the moon.
The bread,
the salt,
white me..
A Tree Telling of Orpheus by Denise Levertov
White dawn. Stillness.When the rippling began
I took it for sea-wind, coming to our valley with rum..
Aware by Denise Levertov
When I found the door
I found the vine leaves
speaking among themselves in abundant
whispers.
My..
An Embroidery by Denise Levertov
Rose Red’s hair is brown as fur
and shines in firelight as she prepares
supper of honey and apples..
An excerpt from "Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus" by Denise Levertov
iiGloria
Praise the wet snow
falling early.
Praise the shadow
my neighor’s chimney casts on th..
And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and t..
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