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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
The Martyr Poets — did not tell —			English	The Martyr Poets — did not tell — But wrought their Pang in syllable — That when their mortal name be numb — Their mortal fate — encourage Some — The Martyr Painters — never spoke — Bequeathing — rather — to...
The Martyrs’ Hymn	Martin Luther		English	From the German by William Johnson Fox FLUNG to the heedless winds, Or on the waters cast, The martyrs’ ashes, watched, Shall gathered be at last; And from that scattered dust, Around us and abroad, Shall spring a plenteous seed...
The Maryland Battalion	John Williamson Palmer		English	Spruce macaronis, and pretty to see, Tidy and dapper and gallant were we; Blooded, fine gentlemen, proper and tall, Bold in a fox-hunt and gay at a ball; Prancing soldados so martial and bluff, Billets for bullets, in scarlet and buff— But our...
The Massasauga	Hamlin Garland		English	A cold coiled line of mottled lead, He lies where grazing cattle tread, And lifts a fanged and spiteful head. His touch is deadly, and his eyes Are hot with hatred and surprise— Death waits and watches where he lies! His hate is turned toward...
The Master's Invitation	Anson Davies Fitz Randolph		English	Dear lord, thy table is outspread; What other could such feast afford? And thou art waiting at the head, But I am all unworthy, Lord; Yet do I hear thee say,— (Was ever love so free?) Come hither, son, to-day And sit...
The Master’s Touch	Horatius Bonar		English	In the still air the music lies unheard; In the rough marble beauty hides unseen: To make the music and the beauty, needs The master’s touch, the sculptor’s chisel keen. Great Master, touch us with thy skilful hand; Let not the music that is in us...
The May Queen	Alfred, Lord Tennyson		English	You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow ’ll be the happiest time of all the glad new-year,— Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May. There ’s...
The May Sun Sheds an Amber Light	William Cullen Bryant	1814	English	The may sun sheds an amber light On new-leaved woods and lawns between; But she who, with a smile more bright, Welcomed and watched the springing green, Is in her grave, Low in her grave. The fair white blossoms of the wood...
The Mayflower	Erastus Wolcott Ellsworth		English	Down in the bleak December bay The ghostly vessel stands away; Her spars and halyards white with ice, Under the dark December skies. A hundred souls, in company, Have left the vessel pensively,— Have touched the frosty desert there, And...
The Meadow Lark	Hamlin Garland		English	A brave little bird that fears not God, A voice that breaks from the snow-wet clod With prophecy of sunny sod, Set thick with wind-waved goldenrod. From the first bare clod in the raw, cold spring, From the last bare clod, when fall winds sting, ...
The Means to attain Happy Life	Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey	1536	English	Martial, the things that do attain The happy life be these, I find,— The riches left, not got with pain; The fruitful ground, the quiet mind, The equal friend; no grudge, no strife; No charge of rule, nor governance; Without disease, the...
The Meeting	John Greenleaf Whittier	1827	English	The Elder folk shook hands at last, Down seat by seat the signal passed. To simple ways like ours unused, Half solemnized and half amused, With long-drawn breath and shrug, my guest His sense of glad relief expressed. Outside, the hills lay warm in...
The Memory of the Heart	Daniel Webster		English	If stores of dry and learnèd lore we gain, We keep them in the memory of the brain; Names, things, and facts,—whate’er we knowledge call,— There is the common ledger for them all; And images on this cold surface traced Make slight impression, and are soon...
The Men behind the Guns	John Jerome Rooney		English	A Cheer and salute for the Admiral, and here ’s to the Captain bold, And never forget the Commodore’s debt when the deeds of might are told! They stand to the deck through the battle’s wreck when the great shells roar and screech— And never they fear when the foe is near...
The Merchant of the Picturesque				The Merchant of the Picturesque A Counter has and sales But is within or negative Precisely as the calls — To Children he is small in price And large in courtesy — It suits him better than a check ...
The Milking-Maid	Christina Georgina Rossetti	1850	English	The Year stood at its equinox, And bluff the North was blowing, A bleat of lambs came from the flocks, Green hardy things were growing; I met a maid with shining locks Where milky kine were lowing. She wore a kerchief on her neck,...
The Milkmaid	Jeffreys Taylor	1812	English	A Milkmaid, who poised a full pail on her head, Thus mused on her prospects in life, it is said: “Let me see,—I should think that this milk will procure One hundred good eggs, or fourscore, to be sure. “Well then,—stop a bit,—it must not be forgotten, ...
The Milkmaid’s Song	Sydney Dobell	1844	English	Turn, turn, for my cheeks they burn, Turn by the dale, my Harry! Fill pail, fill pail, He has turned by the dale, And there by the stile waits Harry. Fill, fill, Fill pail, fill, For there by the stile waits Harry! The world may go...
The Mind lives on the Heart			English	The Mind lives on the Heart Like any Parasite — If that is full of Meat The Mind is fat. But if the Heart omit Emaciate the Wit — The Aliment of it So absolute.
The Ministry of Angels	Edmund Spenser	1572	English	From “The Faërie Queene,” Book II. Canto 8. AND is there care in heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move? There is:—else much more wretched were the case Of men than beasts: but...