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The Lion and the Lamb

The Lion and the LambWhen the boys were gone a lull fell upon Plumfield, and the family scattered to various places for brief outings, as August had come and all felt the need of change. The…

The Seven Ravens

The Seven Ravens There was once a man who had seven sons, and last of all one daughter. Although the little girl was very pretty, she was so weak and small that they thought she could not…

Olive Tilford Dargan: Path Flower

Path FlowerOlive Tilford DarganA red-cap sang in Bishop's wood, A lark o'er Golder's lane, As I the April pathway trod Bound west for Willesden.At foot each tiny blade grew big And taller…

Coleridge: Part I

Part IIPart I An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a wedding-feast, and detaineth one. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long grey beard…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Invocation to Misery

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Song for 'Tasso'Stanzas Written in Dejection, ...Invocation to Misery Published by Medwin, "The Athenaeum", September 8, 1832. Reprinted (as "Misery, a Fragment")…

John Donne: The Good-Morrow

The Good-MorrowI wonder by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den…

John Donne: Love's Usury

Love's UsuryFor every hour that thou wilt spare me now, I will allow, Usurious god of love, twenty to thee, When with my brown my gray hairs equal be. Till then, Love, let…

Walt Whitman: Night on the Prairies

Night on the PrairiesNight on the prairies, The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low, The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets; I walk by myself—I stand and look at…

Christina Rossetti: Dream Land

Dream LandWhere sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmèd sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her…

William Blake: The Book of Thel, IV

by WilliamBlakeIIIIV The eternal gates terrific porter lifted the northern bar: Thel enter'd in & saw the secrets of the land unknown; She saw the couches of the dead, & where the…