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The Cotter’s Saturday Night

Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq.
“Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
  Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile,
  The short but simple annals of the poor.”
—GRAY.

MY loved, my honored, much-respected...

Poet: Robert Burns

Night

Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew
Thee, from report divine, I heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,—
This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Yet ’neath a curtain of translucent dew,
Bathed in the rays of the great setting...

Poet: Joseph Blanco White

“Oft in the stilly night”

Oft in the stilly night,
  Ere slumber’s chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
  Of other days around me:
    The smiles, the tears,
    Of boyhood’s years,
  The words of love then spoken;
    The eyes that shone,
    ...

Poet: Thomas Moore