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Common Sense

She came among the gathering crowd,
A maiden fair, without pretence,
And when they asked her humble name,
She whispered mildly, “Common Sense.”

Her modest garb drew every eye,
Her ample cloak, her shoes of leather;
And, when they sneered, she...

Poet: James Thomas Fields

A Common Inference

A night: mysterious, tender, quiet, deep;
Heavy with flowers; full of life asleep;
Thrilling with insect voices; thick with stars;
No cloud between the dewdrops and red Mars;
The small earth whirling softly on her way,
The moonbeams and the waterfalls at...

Poet: Charlotte Perkins Stetson

The Common Doom

Victorious men of earth, no more
  Proclaim how wide your empires are:
Though you bind in every shore,
  And your triumphs reach as far
        As night or day,
  Yet you proud monarchs must obey,
And mingle with forgotten ashes, when
Death...

Poet: James Shirley

As if I asked a common Alms,

Version 1 As if I... Poet:
Poems of Passion/The Common Lot It is a common fate—a woman's lot— To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole. As I look up into your eyes and wait ... Poet:	Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day Drama's Vitallest Expression is the Common Day That arise and set about Us — Other Tragedy Perish in the Recitation — This — the best enact When the Audience is scattered And the Boxes shut — ... Poet:	It would never be Common — more — I said — It would never be Common — more — I said — Difference — had begun — Many a bitterness — had been — But that old sort — was done — Or — if it sometime — showed — as 'twill — Upon the Downiest — Morn — ... Poet: