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Prayer To Persephone by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was..
Portrait By A Neighbour by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you’ll find her
A-sunning in the sun!
..
Portrait By a Neighbor by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you’ll find her
A-sunning in the sun!
..
Passer Mortuus Est by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness,—presently
Every bed..
Pastoral by Edna St. Vincent Millay
If it were only still!—
With far away the shrill
Crying of a cock;
Or the shaken bell
From a cow..
Portrait d'Une Femme by Ezra Pound
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
London has swept about you this score years
And bright shi..
Preciosa Y El Aire by Federico Garcia Lorca
Su luna de pergamino
Preciosa tocando viene
por un anfibio sendero
de cristales y laureles.
El s..
Paisaje by Federico Garcia Lorca
El campo
de olivos
se abre y se cierra
como un abanico.
Sobre el olivar
hay un cielo hundido
y..
Prayer by Henry David Thoreau
Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf
Than that I may not disappoint myself,
That in my action I m..
Pray to What Earth by Henry David Thoreau
Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong,
Which asks no duties and no conscience?
The moon g..
Past Carin' by Henry Lawson
Now up and down the siding brown
The great black crows are flyin’,
And down below the spur, I kn..
Peter Anderson And Co. by Henry Lawson
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago,
And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson a..
Prelude by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
And winds were soft and low,
To lie amid some sylvan scene..
Picture-Writing by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In those days said Hiawatha,
"Lo! how all things fade and perish!
From the memory of the old men
..
Pau-Puk-Keewis by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,
He, the handsome Yenadizze,
Whom the people called the Storm-Fo..
Pear Tree by Hilda Doolittle
Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted.
O silver,
h..
PRAY AND PROSPER by Robert Herrick
First offer incense; then, thy field and meads
Shall smile and smell the better by thy beads.
The..
PEACE NOT PERMANENT by Robert Herrick
Great cities seldom rest; if there be none
T’ invade from far, they’ll find worse foes at home...
Proof to No Purpose by Robert Herrick
You see this grntle stream that glides,
Shoved on, by quick-succeeding tides:
Try if this sober..
PARDONS by Robert Herrick
Those ends in war the best contentment bring,
Whose peace is made up with a pardoning...
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