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A dozen poems

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My Childhood Home I See Again, by Abraham Lincoln



I

My childhood's home I see again,
And sadden with the view;
And still, as memory crowds my brain,
There's pleasure in it too.

Complete Poem


Dead!, by Quedell Paramore



stranded in a sea of nihility
beyound mortal pellucid ocullus,
density,obdurated,and occlude
everything;oscillating abyss

Complete Poem


The Four Marys, by Anonymous



Child Ballad 173

Last night there were four Marys
Tonight there'll be but three
There was Mary Seaton and Mary Beaton
And Mary Carmichael and me.

Complete Poem


Spring Bereaved 3, by William Drummond, of Hawthornden



ALEXIS, here she stay'd; among these pines,
Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair;
Here did she spread the treasure of her hair,
More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines.
She set her by these musked eglantines,

Complete Poem


Valley Song, by Carl Sandburg



Your eyes and the valley are memories.
Your eyes fire and the valley a bowl.
It was here a moonrise crept over the timberline.
It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down.
And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

Complete Poem


Ubique, by Joshua Sylvester



WERE I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,
Ascend to heaven in honour of my love.
Were I as high as heaven above the plain,

Complete Poem

A Night in Italy, by Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton



SWEET are the rosy memories of the lips
That first kiss'd ours, albeit they kiss no more:
Sweet is the sight of sunset-sailing ships,
Altho' they leave us on a lonely shore:
Sweet are familiar songs, tho' Music dips

Complete Poem


A Divine Rapture, by Francis Quarles



E'EN like two little bank-dividing brooks,
That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,
And having ranged and search'd a thousand nooks,
Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames,
Where in a greater current they conjoin:

Complete Poem


The Rosary, by Robert Cameron Rogers



The hours I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over, every one apart,
My rosary.

Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer,

Complete Poem


To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair, by Richard Lovelace



AMARANTHA sweet and fair,
Ah, braid no more that shining hair!
As my curious hand or eye
Hovering round thee, let it fly!

Let it fly as unconfined

Complete Poem


Philomel, by Richard Barnefield



AS it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap and birds did sing,

Complete Poem


Iron Horse of Winter, by Patrick Boyd



I keep my opium
In a box of suns and moons,
Among stars of floating fire
And black ice.
My hand descends,

Complete Poem

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