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• Charity (Botta)

  O Thou who once on earth beneath the weight
  Of our mortality didst live and move,
  The incarnation of profoundest love; …

  Anne Lynch Botta

• Charity Never Faileth

  THE sparkling eye that ruled the heart
  Hath lost its magic beam,
  And in the socket, heavily, …

  Lydia Sigourney

• Charley's Death

  The wind got up moaning, and blew to a breeze;
  I sat with my face closely pressed on the pane;
  In a minute or two it began to rain, …

• Charmides (Wilde)

  I
  HE was a Grecian lad, who coming home
  With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily …

  Oscar Wilde

• The Cheerful Giver

  "WHAT shall I render Thee! Father Supreme,
  For thy rich gifts, and this the best of all?"
  Said a young mother, as she fondly watched …

  Lydia Sigourney

• Cheney (Botta)

  The Paint-King, envious of his cunning art,
  To him the tinted palette would not lend;
  So has he dipped the pencil in his heart, …

  Anne Lynch Botta

• Child's Prayer at entering Church

  LORD, lead my heart to learn;
  Prepare my ears to hear;
  And let me useful knowledge seek, …

  Lydia Sigourney

• The Choice (Pomfret)

  If heaven the grateful liberty would give
  That I might choose my method how to live,
  And all those hours propitious fate should lend, …

  John Pomfret

• Christ betrayed

  Eighteen hundred years agone
  Was that deed of darkness done --
  Was that sacred, thorn-crowned head …

  Anne Lynch Botta

• Our American Holidays - Christmas/A Christmas Carmen

  The dark night is ending and dawn has begun;
  Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun,
  All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one! …

• Christmas Eve (Field)

  Oh, hush thee, little Dear-my-Soul,
  The evening shades are falling,---
  Hush thee, my dear, dost thou not hear …

  Eugene Field

• The City of Sleep

  Over the edge of the purple down,
  Where the single lamplight gleams,
  Know ye the road to the Merciful Town …

  Rudyard Kipling

• Civilization — spurns — the Leopard!

  Civilization — spurns — the Leopard!
  Was the Leopard — bold?
  Deserts — never rebuked her Satin — …

• Clancy of the Overflow

  I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better,
  Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,
  He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, …

  Banjo Paterson

• Climbing to reach the costly Hearts

  Climbing to reach the costly Hearts
  To which he gave the worth,
  He broke them, fearing punishment …

• Cocoon above! Cocoon below!

  Cocoon above! Cocoon below!
  Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so
  What all the world suspect? …

• Come not, when I am dead

  Come not, when I am dead,
  To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave,
  To trample round my fallen head, …

  Alfred Tennyson

• Come show thy Durham Breast

  Come show thy Durham Breast
  To her who loves thee best,
  Delicious Robin — …

• Come slowly - Eden!

  Come slowly - Eden!
  Lips unused to Thee -
  Bashful - sip they Jessamines - …

  Emily Dickinson

• Come-by-Chance

  As I pondered very weary o'er a volume long and dreary --
  For the plot was void of interest; 'twas the Postal Guide, in fact --
  There I learnt the true location, distance, size and population …

  Banjo Paterson

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