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Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As sweet a song as joy confined. Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. Joy's...
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Pray to the Lord to keep us steady, On the winding road, Remembering the promise, Of the sweetness we can hold. Keep him there behind my eyes, unto my very soul, God has these little things for me to do before I go. Who would have thought, He'd have me write a little pun, or two, Delivering some li...
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june breeze
a hole in the cloud
mends itself
an'ya
Published at the Heron's Nest, and in wind blown clouds by Alec Finlay
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Because she's a girl , and a girl of today,
She wants to go forward, brisk, confident, gay,
To taste of adventure
To strive and achieve,
Though Grundies may censure
And faint-hearts may grieve,
She isn't afraid of the world's busy whirl,
Nor daunted at all just because she's a girl.
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I gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when I came to lie
At rest within the ground,
'T were pleasant, that in flowery June,
When brooks send up a cheerful tune,
And groves a joyous sound,
The sexton's hand, my grave to make,
The rich,...
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A Calendar of Sonnets: January O Winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn Of death! Far sooner in midsummer tire The streams than under ice. June could not hire Her roses to forego the strength they lear...
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A Calendar of Sonnets: July Some flowers are withered and some joys have died; The garden reeks with an East Indian scent From beds where gillyflowers stand weak and spent; The white heat pales the skies from side to side; But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content, Like starry blooms on a n...
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A Calendar of Sonnets: June O month whose promise and fulfilment blend, And burst in one! it seems the earth can store In all her roomy house no treasure more; Of all her wealth no farthing have to spend On fruit, when once this stintless flowering end. And yet no tiniest flower shall fall bef...
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Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in. Time, you thief! who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad; Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add- Jenny kissed me! -James Henri Leigh Hunte
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Jane Austen's popular quotations and words of praise.
An adaption was made in a TV Series (1995), directed by Simon Langton.
[Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet — Colin Firth as Darcy]
Pride and Prejudice comes in three volumes.
It is her most popular and w...
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1795 - John Keats born October 31 at Finsbury, just north of London, the eldest child of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats. His father, Thomas Keats was headkeeper at a livery stable.1707-1803 -Birth of three younger brothers and sisters; George in 1797, Thomas in 1799, Frances Mary (F...
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"In my heart dwells Jesus of Galilee,
the Man above men,
the Poet who makes poets of us all,
the Spirit who knocks at our door that
we may wake and rise and walk out to meet truth ..."
Khalil Gibran,
from the Chapter: Various Appellations Of Jesus
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The cool summer breeze
Whispers over my skin
Tickling the sensors to life
A surge moves through to my core
The spirit within is aroused
and a smile grows upon my face
Bare feet surrender to the dew-laden grass
as my legs stretch and dance
Fingertips stretch to the fragrant bloom
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I'll be okay without you; I just wanted to see what it was like To remember the feel of your touch, To hold you in my arms at night. I knew it wasn't forever; I knew we would end again. It was only a few moments together, A time between two friends. I miss you in my soul, In the deepest part of me....
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The late night silence was strangely soothing –
until I thought it was all that I had to hold onto.
The void of noise oppressed me.
I could not speak or turn on the television.
A voice would violate the laws of this night.
I was restless.
Quietly, I roamed from my bed
down...
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Just Think
Just think! some night the stars will gleam
Upon a cold, grey stone,
And trace a name with silver beam,
And lo! 'twill be your own.
That night is speeding on to greet
Your epitaphic rhyme.
Your life is but a little beat
Within the heart of Time.
A little ga...
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I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair, Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air; I see her tripping where the bright streams play, Happy as the daisies that dance on her way. Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour. Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er: Oh! I dream of J...
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Joy! shipmate—joy! (Pleas’d to my Soul at death I cry;) Our life is closed—our life begins; The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last—she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore; Joy! shipmate—joy! - Walt Whitman
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