1. common

  • 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 simply said,
    “I dress according to the weather.”

    They argued long, and reasoned loud...

    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 play;
    A million million worlds that move in peace,
    A million mighty laws that never...

    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 calls ye to the crowd of common men.

      Devouring famine, plague, and war,
        ...

    James Shirley

  • As if I asked a common Alms,


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    As if I asked a common alms -
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  • 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

          For some response to my fond gaze and touch,

    It seems to me there is no...

  • 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 —


    "Hamlet" to Himself were Hamlet —

    Had not Shakespeare wrote —

    ...

  • 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 —

    Such bliss — had I — for all the years —

    'Twould give an Easier — pain —

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