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Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grownAnd spread as if ye knew that days might comeWhen ye would shelter in a happy home,On this fair Mount, a Poet of your own,One who ne'er ventured for a Delphic crownTo sue the God; but, haunting your green shadeAll seasons through, is humbly pleased to braidGround-flowers, beneath your guardianship, self-sown.Farewell! no Minstrels now … [Read more...] about Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! That Have Grown, By: William Wordsworth

    A wan sky greener than the lawn,    A wan lawn paler than the sky.    She gave a flower into my hand,    And all the hours of eve went by.     Who knows what round the corner waits    To smite? If shipwreck, snare, or slur    Shall … [Read more...] about Vanity, By: G.K. Chesterton

    The vision of a haloed host    That weep around an empty throne;    And, aureoles dark and angels dead,    Man with his own life stands alone.     'I am,' he says his bankrupt creed:    'I am,' and is again a clod:    The sparrow … [Read more...] about Ultimate, By: G.K. Chesterton

    Lift up your heads: in life, in death,    God knoweth his head was high.    Quit we the coward's broken breath    Who watched a strong man die.     If we must say, 'No more his peer    Cometh; the flag is furled.'    Stand not too … [Read more...] about To Them That Mourn, By: G.K. Chesterton