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Sweeney by Henry Lawson
It was somewhere in September, and the sun was going down,
When I came, in search of `copy’, to a..
Sez You' by Henry Lawson
When the heavy sand is yielding backward from your blistered feet,
And across the distant timber y..
Sunrise on the Hills by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I stood upon the hills, when heaven’s wide arch
Was glorious with the sun’s returning march,
And w..
Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands bro..
Something Left Undone by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Labor with what zeal we will,
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits t..
Sundown by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The summer sun is sinking low;
Only the tree-tops redden and glow:
Only the weathercock on the spi..
Seaweed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When descends on the Atlantic
The gigantic
Storm-wind of the equinox,
Landword in his wrath he sc..
Shakespeare by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A vision as of crowded city streets,
With human life in endless overflow;
Thunder of thoroughfar..
St. John's, Cambridge by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I stand beneath the tree, whose branches shade
Thy western window, Chapel of St. John!
And hear it..
Sir Humphrey Gilbert by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Southward with fleet of ice
Sailed the corsair Death;
Wild and gast blew the blast,
And the east-..
September by Hilaire Belloc
I, from a window where the Meuse is wide,
Looked eastward out to the September night;
The men that..
Song by Hilaire Belloc
Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year
You wear the morning like your dress..
Sea Poppies by Hilda Doolittle
Amber husk
fluted with gold,
fruit on the sand
marked with a rich grain,
treasure
spille..
Sea Rose by Hilda Doolittle
Rose, harsh rose,
marred and with stint of petals,
meagre flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,
mo..
Sheltered Garden by Hilda Doolittle
I have had enough.
I gasp for breath.
Every way ends, every road,
every foot-path leads at l..
Stars Wheel in Purple by Hilda Doolittle
Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare
as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star
as bright Aldebor..
Seasons by J. R. R. Tolkien
In the willow-meads of Tasarinan I walked in the Spring.
Ah! The sight and smell of the Spring in N..
Sing All Ye People! by J. R. R. Tolkien
Sing now, ye people of the Tower of Anor,
For the Realm of Sauron is ended for ever,
And the Dark..
Sonnet 104 - A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece by John Berryman
A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece,
Diminutive, but room enough . . like clay
To finger eager..
Sonnet 115 - All we were going strong last night this time by John Berryman
All we were going strong last night this time,
the mosts were flying & the frozen daiquiris
were d..
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