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WE were all one heart and one rac… When the Abbey trumpets blew. For a moment’s breathing—space We had forgotten you. Now you return to your honoured pl…
Nothing in life has been made by m… But it was shown long since to man… Lost as the name of the maker of i… Who received oppression and shame… Hate, avoidance, and scorn in his…
WHEN all the world would keep a… Since Truth is seldom friend to a… Men write in fable, as old Æsop di… Jesting at that which none will na… And this they needs must do, or it…
THE FEAR was on the cattle, for… An’ the pens broke up on the lower… An’ the lights went out on the low… I had been singin’ to them to keep… For the lower deck is the dangerou…
I have made for you a song And it may be right or wrong, But only you can tell me if it’s t… I have tried for to explain Both your pleasure and your pain,
"GO WASH thyself in Jordan —go,… Nay, not for any Prophet will I p… For the banks of curious Jordan a… Commanded and embellished and patr… There rise her timeless capitals o…
Our sister sayeth such and such, And we must bow to her behests. Our sister toileth overmuch, Our little maid that hath no breas… A field untilled, a web unwove,
They are fools who kiss and tell"… Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he’ll only hold his tongue. Jenny and Me were engaged, you se…
WHO in the Realm to—day lays dow… And, unconcerned for his own estat… Let him approach. It is proven he… Our King asks nothing of any man… For to him above all was Life goo…
I’ve danced till my shoes are outw… From ten till the hours called sma… I’ve cantered with Beauty at morn… At even made love at the ball. Light Loves for five months were…
I am made all things to all men— Hebrew, Roman, and Greek— In each one’s tongue I speak, Suiting to each my word, That some may be drawn to the Lor…
We knit a riven land to strength b… We drove the road for all men’s fe… We cleared the waste of force and… And whereso’er that will was good,… The Wisdom of the West is theirs—…
WE’VE FOUGHT with many men ac… An’ some of 'em was brave an’ some… The Paythan an’ the Zulu an’ Bur… But the Fuzzy was the finest o’ t… We never got a ha’porth’s change o…
To the Heavens above us O look and behold The Planets that love us All harnessed in gold! What chariots, what horses
What is a woman that you forsake h… And the hearth-fire and the home-a… To go with the old grey Widow-mak… She has no house to lay a guest in… But one chill bed for all to rest…