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Opening of the Railway Line by Andrew Barton Paterson
The opening of the railway line...
The Governor and all,
With flags and banners down the street,..
Our New Horse by Andrew Barton Paterson
The boys had come back from the races
All silent and down on their luck;
They’d backed ’em, stra..
Only a Jockey by Andrew Barton Paterson
Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light,
Out on the track where the night shades stil..
Over The Range by Andrew Barton Paterson
Little bush maiden, wondering-eyed,
Playing alone in the creek-bed dry,
In the small green flat..
Our Mat by Andrew Barton Paterson
It came from the prison this morning,
Close-twisted, neat-lettered, and flat;
It lies the hall d..
On Kiley's Run by Andrew Barton Paterson
The roving breezes come and go
On Kiley’s Run,
The sleepy river murmurs low,
And far away one..
On the Trek by Andrew Barton Paterson
Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day,
With sun above and silent veldt below;
..
On a Vulgar Error by C. S. Lewis
No. It’s an impudent falsehood. Men did not
Invariably think the newer way Prosaic
mad, inelegant..
On Being Human by C. S. Lewis
Angelic minds, they say, by simple intelligence
Behold the Forms of nature. They discern
Unerrin..
On Angels by Czeslaw Milosz
All was taken away from you: white dresses,
wings, even existence.
Yet I believe you,
messengers...
On the Mystery of the Incarnation by Denise Levertov
It’s when we face for a moment
the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know
the taint in our own..
On a Theme by Thomas Merton by Denise Levertov
"Adam, where are you?"
God’s hands
palpate darkness, the void
that is Adam’s inattention,
his co..
On A Wedding Anniversary by Dylan Thomas
The sky is torn across
This ragged anniversary of two
Who moved for three years in tune
Down the..
O Make Me A Mask by Dylan Thomas
O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies
Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the spectacled..
Once It Was The Colour Of Saying by Dylan Thomas
Once it was the colour of saying
Soaked my table the uglier side of a hill
With a capsized field w..
Our Eunuch Dreams by Dylan Thomas
I
Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light,
Of light and love the tempers of the heart,
Wha..
On No Work Of Words by Dylan Thomas
On no work of words now for three lean months in the
bloody
Belly of the rich year and the big pur..
On Quitting by Edgar Albert Guest
How much grit do you think you’ve got?
Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?
You may talk of p..
Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give me back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my..
Ode To Silence by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Aye, but she?
Your other sister and my other soul
Grave Silence, lovelier
Than the three lovelies..
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