CLASSIC POETRY

Guiltless Heart

                Guiltless Heart The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is freeFrom all dishonest deeds and thoughts of vanity:The man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude, nor fortune discontent;That man needs neither towers nor armor for defense,Nor secret vaults to fly from thunder’s violence:He only can...Read More »

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To Mrs. M.B. On Her Birthday

                  To Mrs. M.B. On Her Birthday Oh be thou blest with all that Heav’n can send,Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend:Not with those Toys the female world admire,Riches that vex, and Vanities that tire.With added years if Life bring nothing new,But, like a Sieve, let ev’ry blessing thro’,Some...Read More »

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Roman

                  Roman On n’est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans. – Un beau soir, foin des bocks et de la limonade, Des cafés tapageurs aux lustres éclatants ! – On va sous les tilleuls verts de la promenade. Les tilleuls sentent bon dans les bons soirs de juin ! L’air est...Read More »

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The Stolen Child

                    The Stolen Child Where dips the rocky highlandOf Sleuth Wood in the lake,There lies a leafy islandWhere flapping herons wakeThe drowsy water rats;There we’ve hid our faery vats,Full of berrysAnd of reddest stolen cherries.Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more...Read More »

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Brucia la Terra

              Brucia la terra Brucia la luna n’cielu E ju bruciu d’amuri Focu ca si consuma Comu lu me cori L’anima chianci Addulurata Non si da paci Ma cchi mala nuttata Lu tempu passa Ma non agghiorna Non c’e mai suli S’idda non torna Brucia la terra mia E abbrucia lu me cori Cchi siti d’acqua idda...Read More »

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Auld Lang Syne

                      Auld Lang Syne Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And auld lang syne!   Chorus.—     For auld lang syne, my dear,       For auld lang syne.     We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,       For auld lang syne. And surely ye’ll be your pint stowp!...Read More »

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A Song For New Year's Eve

                    A Song For New Year’s Eve Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay –             Stay till the good old year, So long companion of our way,           Shakes hands and leaves us here.                 Oh stay, oh stay,...Read More »

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Into my arms

                     Into my arms I don’t believe in an interventionist GodBut I know, darling, that you doBut if I did I would kneel down and ask HimNot to intervene when it came to youNot to touch a hair on your headTo leave you as you areAnd if He felt He had to...Read More »

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Christmas Morning

                      Christmas Morning I. Come all you weary wanderers, Beneath the wintry sky; This day forget your worldly cares, And lay your sorrows by; Awake, and sing The church bells ring; For this is Christmas morning! II. With grateful hearts salute the morn, And swell the streams of song,...Read More »

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Piano

                Piano Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she...Read More »

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