Poet:
Raymond A Foss
Poem:
Specimen Moments
Poem lines:
A radio show crackling in the cartalking about specimen daysdays to remember, to treasureBut they have it wronghave you seen the flash of a fireflythe [...]
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Raymond A Foss poems
Poet:
Joseph Mayo Wristen
Poem:
Falling Water
Poem lines:
The nights are lonely here without her,I will be with her soon;Our happiness.
She is, in my life, the shining light,in the days of my struggles,a [...]
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Joseph Mayo Wristen poems
Poet:
Rainer Maria Rilke
Poem:
Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy
Poem lines:
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes?We are not of one mind. Are not like birdsin unison migrating. And overtaken,overdue, we thrust ourselves [...]
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Rainer Maria Rilke poems
Poet:
Emily Dickinson
Poem:
At Last, To Be Identified!
Poem lines:
At last, to be identified!At last, the lamps upon thy sideThe rest of Life to see!
Past Midnight! Past the Morning Star!Past Sunrise!Ah, What leagues there [...]
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Emily Dickinson poems
Poet:
Thomas Moore
Poem:
War Song
Poem lines:
Remember the Glories of Brien the Brave
Remember the glories of Brien the brave, Though the days of the hero are o’er, Though lost to Mononia [...]
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Poet:
Robert Burns
Poem:
159. Song—My Lord A Hunting He Is Gane
Poem lines:
Chorus.—MY lady’s gown, there’s gairs upon’t,And gowden flowers sae rare upon’t;But Jenny’s jimps and jirkinet,My lord thinks meikle mair upon’t.
My lord a-hunting he is gone,But [...]
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Robert Burns poems
Poet:
David Berman
Poem:
The Moon
Poem lines:
A web of sewer, pipe, and wire connects each house to the others.
In 206 a dog sleeps by the stove where a small gas leak [...]
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David Berman poems
Poet:
Siegfried Sassoon
Poem:
Stand To: Good Friday Morning
Poem lines:
I’d been on duty from two till four. I went and stared at the dug-out door. Down in the frowst I heard them snore. ‘Stand [...]
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Siegfried Sassoon poems
Poet:
Robert Herrick
Poem:
TO LIVE FREELY
Poem lines:
Let’s live in haste; use pleasures while we may;Could life return, ‘twould never lose a day.
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Robert Herrick poems
Poet:
Robert William Service
Poem:
The Petit Vieux
Poem lines:
“Sow your wild oats in your youth,” so we’re always told;But I say with deeper sooth: “Sow them when you’re old.”I’ll be wise till I’m [...]
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Robert William Service poems