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Nature's first green is gold,
 * Nothing Gold Can Stay ** by Robert Frost

 Her hardest hue to hold.

 Her early leaf's a flower;

 But only so an hour.

 Then leaf subsides to leaf.

 So Eden sank to grief,

 So dawn goes down to day.

 Nothing gold can stay.

_


 * Moods **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Sara Teasdale

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I am the still rain falling,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Too tired for singing mirth --

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Oh, be the green fields calling,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Oh, be for me the earth!

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I am the brown bird pining

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To leave the nest and fly --

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Oh, be the fresh cloud shining,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Oh, be for me the sky! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The Eclipse **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Richard Eberhart

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I stood out in the open cold

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To see the essence of the eclipse

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Which was its perfect darkness.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I stood in the cold on the porch

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And could not think of anything so perfect

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> As mans hope of light in the face of darkness.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> _
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">ROSES **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by George Eliot 1819-1880

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> You love the roses - so do I. I wish

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> They sky would rain down roses, as they rain

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Then all the valley would be pink and white

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And soft to tread on. They would fall as light

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> _
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The Great Way **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">by Wu Men

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The Great Way has no gate;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> there are a thousand paths to it.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> If you pass through the barrier,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> you walk the universe alone. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The Crystal Gazer **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Sara Teasdale

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall gather myself into myself again,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I Shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Watching the future come and the present go -

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And the little shifting pictures of people rushing

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> In tiny self-importance to and fro.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">AT THE END **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Ed Meeks

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> He was so old his bones seemed to swim in his skin.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And when I took his hand to feel his pulse

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I felt myself drawn in. It was as faint

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> as the steps of a child

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> padding across the floor in slippers,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> and yet he was smiling.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I could almost hear a river

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> running beneath his breath.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The water clear and cold and deep.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> He was ready and willing to wade on in.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> _
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">This Is Just to Say **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by William Carlos Williams (1934)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">I have eaten <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">the plums <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">that were in <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">the icebox <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">and which <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">you were probably <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">saving <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">for breakfast <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Forgive me <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">they were delicious <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">so sweet <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">and so cold <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_ =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Dust of Snow by Robert Frost =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The way a crow

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Shook down on me

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The dust of snow

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> From a hemlock tree

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Has given my heart

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> A change of mood

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And saved some part

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Of a day I had rued.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Death **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by William Butler Yeats

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Nor dread nor hope attend

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> A dying animal;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> A man awaits his end

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Dreading and hoping all;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Many times he died,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Many times rose again.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> A great man in his pride

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Confronting murderous men

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Casts derision upon

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Supersession of breath;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> He knows death to the bone

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Man has created death.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Yesterday is History **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Emily Dickinson

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Yesterday is History,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 'Tis so far away

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Yesterday is Poetry

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 'Tis Philosophy

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Yesterday is mystery

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Where it is Today

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> While we shrewdly speculate

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Flutter both away

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> _


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Eros **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The sense of the world is short,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Long and various the report,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To love and be beloved;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Men and gods have not outlearned it,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And how oft soe'er they've turned it,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> 'Tis not to be improved.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">A Poison Tree **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> a poem by William Blake

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">I was angry with my friend;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I was angry with my foe:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I told it not, my wrath did grow.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And I waterd it in fears,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Night and morning with my tears:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And I sunned it with smiles,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And with soft deceitful wiles.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And it grew both day and night,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Till it bore an apple bright.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And my foe beheld it shine,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And he knew that it was mine.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And into my garden stole.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> When the night had veiled the pole;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> In the morning glad I see,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> My foe outstretchd beneath the tree.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">FOG **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Carl Sandburg

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The fog comes

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> on little cat feet.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> It sits looking

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> over harbor and city

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> on silent haunches

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> and then moves on. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Love and Friendship **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Emily Bronte

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Love is like the wild rose-briar,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Friendship like the holly-tree—

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> But which will bloom most constantly?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The wild-rose briar is sweet in the spring,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Its summer blossoms scent the air;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Yet wait till winter comes again

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And who will call the wild-briar fair?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Then scorn the silly rose-wreath now

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And deck thee with the holly's sheen,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> That when December blights thy brow

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> He may still leave thy garland green. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">My River **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Emily Dickinson

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> My river runs to thee.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Blue sea, wilt thou welcome me?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> My river awaits reply.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Oh! sea, look graciously.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I’ll fetch thee brooks

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> from spotted nooks.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Say, sea, Take me! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">THE WORLDS NEED **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">O many gods, so many creeds,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> So many paths that wind and wind,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> While just the art of being kind

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Is all the sad world needs. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">O Lady Moon by Christina Rossetti =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Shine, be increased;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Wane, be at rest. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When Roses cease to bloom, Sir by Emily Dickinson =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> When Roses cease to bloom, Sir,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And Violets are done --

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> When Bumblebees in solemn flight

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Have passed beyond the Sun --

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The hand that paused to gather

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Upon this Summer's day

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Will idle lie -- in Auburn --

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Then take my flowers -- pray! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Fish by William Butler Yeats =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Although you hide in the ebb and flow

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Of the pale tide when the moon has set,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The people of coming days will know

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> About the casting out of my net,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And how you have leaped times out of mind

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Over the little silver cords,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And think that you were hard and unkind,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And blame you with many bitter words.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_ =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Water, is taught by thirst. by Emily Dickinson =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Water, is taught by thirst.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Land -- by the Oceans passed.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Transport -- by throe

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Peace -- by its battles told

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Love, by Memorial Mold

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Birds, by the Snow. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_

=<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A sepal, petal, and a thorn by Emily Dickinson =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> A sepal, petal, and a thorn

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Upon a common summer's morn

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> A flask of Dew - A Bee or two

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> A Breeze - a caper in the trees

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And I'm a Rose! <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_ =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Quiet Girl by Langston Hughes =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I would liken you

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To a night without stars

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Were it not for your eyes.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I would liken you

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To a sleep without dreams

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Were it not for your songs. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_ =<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">My Beard by Shel Silverstein =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> My beard grows down to my toes,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I never wears no clothes,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I wraps my hair

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Around my bare,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And down the road I goes.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">_


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Who Has Seen the Wind? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">by Christina Georgina Rossetti

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Who has seen the wind?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Neither I nor you.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> But when the leaves hang trembling,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The wind is passing through.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Who has seen the wind?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Neither you nor I.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> But when the trees bow down their heads,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The wind is passing by.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">If I can stop one heart from breaking,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall not live in vain;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> If I can ease one life the aching,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Or cool one pain,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Or help one fainting robin

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Unto his nest again,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall not live in vain.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Hans Christian Anderson **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To gain all while you give,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To roam the roads of lands remote,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> To travel is to live.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Do not stand at my grave and weep **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by Mary Elizabeth Frye

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do not stand at my grave and weep: //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am not there; I do not sleep. //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am a thousand winds that blow, //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am the diamond glints on snow, //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am the sun on ripened grain, //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am the gentle autumn rain. //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When you awaken in the morning’s hush //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am the swift uplifting rush //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Of quiet birds in circling flight. //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am the soft starshine at night. //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Do not stand at my grave and cry: //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I am not there; I did not die. //

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">- //


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">The Crystal Gazer **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">- Sara Teasdale

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall gather myself into my self again,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I Shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Watching the future come and the present go -

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And the little shifting pictures of people rushing

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> In tiny self-importance to and fro.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Heredity **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">byThomas Hardy

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I am the family face;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Flesh perishes, I live on,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Projecting trait and trace

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Through time to times anon,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And leaping from place to place

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Over oblivion.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The years-heired feature that can

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> In curve and voice and eye

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Despise the human span

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Of durance -- that is I;

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> The eternal thing in man,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> That heeds no call to die


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">This Too Shall Pass **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> - Helen Steiner Rice

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">If I can endure for this minute

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Whatever is happening to me,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> No matter how heavy my heart is

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Or how dark the moment may be <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">If I can remain calm and quiet

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> With all the world crashing about me,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Secure in the knowledge God loves me

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> When everyone else seems to doubt me <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">If I can but keep on believing

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> What I know in my heart to be true,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> That darkness will fade with the morning

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And that this will pass away, too <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Then nothing in life can defeat me

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> For as long as this knowledge remains

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> I can suffer whatever is happening

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> For I know God will break all of the chains <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">That are binding me tight in the darkness

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And trying to fill me with fear

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Or there is no night without dawning

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And I know that my morning is near.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">ROSES **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> by George Eliot 1819-1880

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> You love the roses - so do I. I wish

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> They sky would rain down roses, as they rain

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Then all the valley would be pink and white

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> And soft to tread on. They would fall as light

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Justice **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">by Langston Hughes

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">That Justice is a blind goddess

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Is a thing to which we black are wise:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> Her bandage hides two festering sores

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;"> That once perhaps were eyes. Poetry