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The Mountain Tomb (Poem by William Butler Yeats)

The Mountain Tomb By William Butler Yeats Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride, Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom; The…

The Falling of the Leaves (Poem by William Butler Yeats)

The Falling of the Leaves By William Butler Yeats Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; …

A Cradle Song (Poem by William Butler Yeats)

A Cradle Song By William Butler Yeats The angels are stooping Above your bed; They weary of trooping With the whimpering dead. God’s…

The Meditation of the Old Fisherman (Poem by William Butler Yeats)

The Meditation of the Old Fisherman By William Butler Yeats You waves, though you dance by my feet like children at play, Though you glo…

An Hymn to the Evening (Poem by Phillis Wheatley)

An Hymn to the Evening By  Phillis Wheatley Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main The pealing thunder shook the heav’nly plain; Majestic grandeur!…

An Hymn to the Morning (Poem by Phillis Wheatley)

An Hymn to the Morning By  Phillis Wheatley Attend my lays, ye ever honour’d nine, Assist my labours, and my strains refine; In smoothest numbers pou…

A Farewell to America (Poem by Phillis Wheatley)

A Farewell to America. To Mrs. S. W. By  Phillis Wheatley (1) Adieu, New-England’s smiling meads,     Adieu, the flow’ry plain: I leave thine op’ning…

Indian Mutiny (Poem by James McIntyre)

Indian Mutiny By  James McIntyre British infants who were nobly born Were from their bleeding mother's bosom torn, And with the bayonet dashed up…

A Prayer in Spring (Poem by Robert Lee Frost)

A Prayer in Spring By  Robert Lee Frost Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; ke…
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