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• The Sirens’ Song

  From the “Inner Temple Masque”
  STEER hither, steer your wingèd pines,
  All beaten mariners: …

  William Browne

• Quatrains

  Moonlight Song OF THE MOCKING-BIRD
  EACH golden note of music greets
  The listening leaves, divinely stirred, …

  William Hamilton Hayne

• To-morrow

  From “Irene”
  TO-MORROW’S action! can that hoary wisdom,
  Borne down with years, still doat upon to-morrow! …

  Samuel Johnson

• Ave atque Vale

  Farewell, my Youth! for now we needs must part,
  For here the paths divide;
  Here hand from hand must sever, heart from heart,— …

  Rosamund Marriott Watson

• The Approach of Age

  Sonnet Xii.
  when I do count the clock that tells the time,
  And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; …

  William Shakespeare

• The Petrified Fern

  In a valley, centuries ago,
  Grew a little fern-leaf, green and slender,
  Veining delicate and fibres tender; …

  Mary L. Bolles Branch

• Life

  My life is like the summer rose,
  That opens to the morning sky,
  But, ere the shades of evening close, …

  Richard Henry Wilde

• Life

  I Made a posie, while the day ran by:
  “Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie
  My life within this band.” …

  George Herbert

• Life

  Life, like a romping school-boy full of glee,
  Doth bear us on his shoulders for a time:
  There is no path too steep for him to climb, …

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• L’ Allegro

  Hence, loathed Melancholy,
  Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born,
  In Stygian cave forlorn, …

  John Milton

• Excelsior

  The Shades of night were falling fast,
  As though an Alpine village passed
  A youth, who bore, ’mid snow and ice, …

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Opportunity

  He who bends to himself a joy
  Does the wingèd life destroy;
  But he who kisses the joy as it flies …

  William Blake

• The Fool’s Prayer

  The Royal feast was done; the King
  Sought some new sport to banish care,
  And to his jester cried: “Sir Fool, …

  Edward Rowland Sill

• Illusions

  Go stand at night upon an ocean craft,
  And watch the folds of its imperial train
  Catching in fleecy foam a thousand glows— …

  Robert Underwood Johnson

• Proem

  From “The Isles of the Amazons,” Part III.
  COME, lovers, come, forget your pains!
  I know upon this earth a spot …

  Joaquin Miller

• Beauty

  From “An Hymne in Honor of Beautie”
  SO every spirit, as it is most pure,
  And hath in it the more of heavenly light, …

  Edmund Spenser

• Fortune

  From the Greek by Richard Garnett
  ’TWIXT good and ill my wavering fortune see
  Swayed in capricious instability, …

  Sophocles

• “’T is but a little faded flower”

  ’t Is but a little faded flower,
  But oh, how fondly dear!
  ’T will bring me back one golden hour, …

  Ellen Clementine Howarth

• Proem

  From “Myth and Romance”
  THERE is no rhyme that is half so sweet
  As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat; …

  Madison Cawein

• On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

  Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
  And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
  Round many western islands have I been …

  John Keats

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