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Joseph

With many children was the Patriarch blest,
Yet Joseph he preferr'd before the rest:
To tend his flock was all the youth's employ …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
A Journeying Song for the Camp of Israel

The time of winter now is o’er—
There’s verdure on the plain;
We leave our shelt’ring roofs once more, …

Eliza Roxcy Snow
Joy to have merited the Pain —

Joy to have merited the Pain —
To merit the Release —
Joy to have perished every step — …

Emily Dickinson
Judgment is justest

Judgment is justest
When the Judged,
His action laid away, …
Just as He spoke it from his Hands

Just as He spoke it from his Hands
This Edifice remain —
A Turret more, a Turret less …
Just Once! Oh least Request!

Just Once! Oh least Request!
Could Adamant refuse
So small a Grace …

Emily Dickinson
Just so — Jesus — raps —

Just so — Jesus — raps —
He — doesn't weary —
Last — at the Knocker — …

Emily Dickinson
The Kid

The Kid
Thou little Kid didst play
&c[4]

William Blake
Kill your Balm — and its Odors bless you —

Kill your Balm — and its Odors bless you —
Bare your Jessamine — to the storm —
And she will fling her maddest perfume — …
Knock with tremor —

Knock with tremor —
These are Caesars —
Should they be at Home …
La Fayette

The wail of France comes o'er the sea, --
She mourns for thee, departed chief;
And we, the children of the Free, …

Anne Lynch Botta
Lacedemonian Instruction

Come hither my boy tell me what thou seest there
A fool tangled in a religious snare[3]

William Blake
Lad of Athens, faithful be

Lad of Athens faithful be to thyself and mystery—
All the rest is perjury—
Lain in Nature — so suffice us

Lain in Nature — so suffice us
The enchantless Pod
When we advertise existence …
Lay this Laurel on the One

Lay this Laurel on the One
Too intrinsic for Renown —
Laurel — veil your deathless tree — …

Emily Dickinson
Lays of Ancient Rome/Horatius

I
Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the Nine Gods he swore …

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lays of Ancient Rome/The Prophecy of Capys

A Lay Sung at the Banquet in the Capitol, on the Day Whereon
Manius Curius Dentatus, a Second Time Consul, Triumphed Over King
Pyrrhus and the Tarentines, in the Year of the City CCCCLXXIX. …

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lays of Ancient Rome/Virginia

Straightway Virginius led the maid a little space aside,
To where the reeking shambles stood, piled up with horn and hide,
Close to yon low dark archway, where, in a crimson flood, …

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Least Bee that brew —

Least Bee that brew —
A Honey's Weight
Content Her smallest fraction help …
Least Rivers — docile to some sea.

Least Rivers — docile to some sea.
My Caspian — thee.