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THE ELDER'S REBUKE
2023-12-06THE ELDER'S REBUKE. "Listen! When your hair, like mine, Takes a tint of silver gray; When your eyes, with dimmer shine, Watch life's bubb...
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LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
2023-12-06LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bl...
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THE NIGHT-WIND
2023-12-06THE NIGHT-WIND. In summer's mellow midnight, A cloudless moon shone through Our open parlour window, And rose-trees wet with dew. I sat in silent ...
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SELF-CONGRATULATION
2023-12-06SELF-CONGRATULATION. Ellen, you were thoughtless once Of beauty or of grace, Simple and homely in attire, Careless of form and face; Then whence this ...
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THE CAPTIVE DOVE
2023-12-06THE CAPTIVE DOVE. Poor restless dove, I pity thee; And when I hear thy plaintive moan, I mourn for thy captivity, And in thy woes forget mine own. To ...
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THE STUDENT'S SERENADE
2023-12-06THE STUDENT'S SERENADE. I have slept upon my couch, But my spirit did not rest, For the labours of the day Yet my weary soul opprest; And before m...
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APPEAL
2023-12-06APPEAL. Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe; My life is very lonely My days pass h...
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VIEWS OF LIFE
2023-12-06VIEWS OF LIFE. When sinks my heart in hopeless gloom, And life can show no joy for me; And I behold a yawning tomb, Where bowers and palaces should be...
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LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY
2023-12-06LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY. My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around ...
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THE CONSOLATION
2023-12-06THE CONSOLATION. Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground With fallen leaves so thickly strown, And cold the wind that wanders round With wild an...