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Ulysses  (by: Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892))
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore...
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Unequal Fetters, The  (by: Anonymous)
Cou'd we stop the time that's flying
Or recall it when 'tis past
Put far off the day of Dying
Or make Youth forever last
To Love wou'd then be worth our cost.
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Unless  (by: James Whitcomb Riley (1849 - 1916))
And that most dear of everything,
I hold, is love; and who can sit
With lightest heart and laugh and sing,
Knows not the worth of it.--
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Uriel  (by: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882))
It fell in the ancient periods
Which the brooding soul surveys,
Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself
Into calendar months and days.
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Wayside Flowers  (by: William Allingham (1824-1889))
Pluck not the wayside flower,
It is the traveller's dower;
A thousand passers-by
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Life Poems Books

We to Sigh Instead of Sing  (by: James Whitcomb Riley (1849 - 1916))
We to sigh instead of sing,
Yesterday in sorrow,
While the lord was fashioning
This for our To-morrow!
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Went Up A Year This Evening  (by: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
Went up a year this evening!
I recollect it well!
Amid no bells nor bravoes
The bystanders will tell!
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Wet Sheet And A Flowing Sea, A  (by: Allan Cunningham (1784-1842))
A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sail...
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What Is Life?  (by: John Clare (1793 - 1864))
When stripped of its disguise,
A thing to be desired it cannot be;
Since everything that meets our foolish eyes
Gives proof sufficient of its vanity.
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Whether My Bark Went down At Sea  (by: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
Whether my bark went down at sea --
Whether she met with gales...
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