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Astrologer's Song, An  (by: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936))
To the Heavens above us
O look and behold
The Planets that love us
All harnessed in gold!
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At an Old Drawer  (by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919))
Before this scarf was faded,
What hours of mirth it knew;
How gayly it paraded
From smiling eyes to view.
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At The Window  (by: D.H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930))
The pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters
Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter;
While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters.
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Auld Lang Syne  (by: Robert Burns (1759 - 1796))
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne.
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Autumn  (by: Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864))
Mild is the parting year, and sweet
The odour of the falling spray
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Life Poems Books

Azure And Gold  (by: Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925))
April had covered the hills
With flickering yellows and reds,
The sparkle and coolness of snow
Was blown from the mountain beds.
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Bacchus  (by: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882))
I thank the joyful juice
For all I know;
Winds of remembering
Of the ancient being blow,
And seeming-solid walls of use
Open and flow.
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Ballade Of Unfortunate Mammals  (by: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967))
Love is sharper than stones or sticks;
Lone as the sea, and deeper blue;
Loud in the night as a clock that ticks;
Longer-lived than the Wandering Jew.
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Beautiful Dreamer Serenade  (by: Stephen C. Foster (1826-1864))
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd a way!
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Before Dawn  (by: Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925))
Teach me the needed lesson, when to wait
Inactive as a ship when no wind draws
To stretch the loosened cordage. One implores
Thy clemency, whose wilfulness innate
Has gone uncurbed and roughshod...
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