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Messiness Road, The  (by: J. E. Stewart)
The road that runs up to Messines
Is double-locked with gates of fire,
Barred with high ramparts, and between
The unbridged river, and the wire.
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Mine-Sweepers, The  (by: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936))
Dawn off the Foreland—the young flood making
Jumbled and short and steep—
Black in the hollows and bright where it’s breaking—
Awkward water to sweep.
“Mines reported in the fairway,
Warn all traffic and detain.
Sent up Unity, Claribel, Assyrian, Stormcock, and Golden Gain.”
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Moccasin Flowers  (by: Mary Oliver)
All my life,
so far,
I have loved
more than one thing,
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Mocking Bird lane  (by: Lisa G. Leming)
One day while walking down a lane
Along a fence, after a rain
I thought I heard a sad old song
Go back and forth and on and on
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Nature  (by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882))
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er,
Leads by the hand her little child to bed,
Half willing, half reluctant to be led,
And leave his broken playthings on the floor...
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Wisdom Poems Books

Neither Bloody Nor Bowed  (by: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967))
They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.
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Nightingale, The  (by: Mark Akenside (1721-1770))
To-night retired, the queen of heaven
With young Endymion stays;
And now to Hesper it is given
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Ode Written In The Beginning Of The Year 1746  (by: William Collins (1721 - 1759))
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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Oh, When I Was In Love With You  (by: A.E. Housman (1859 - 1936))
Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,
With dandelions to tell the hours
That never are told again.
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On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Rema  (by: William Cowper (1731 - 1800))
"Me too, perchance, in future days,
The sculptured stone shall show,
With Paphian myrtle or with bays
Parnassian on my brow.
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