Tag: American
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‘My life closed twice before its close’ by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
My life closed twice …
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‘The Rhodora’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1888)
The purple petals fallen in the pool Made the black water with their beauty gay
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‘My Cathedral’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Like two cathedral towers these stately pines Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones; The arch beneath them is not built with stones, Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines, And carved this graceful arabesque of vines; No organ but the wind here sighs and moans, No sepulchre conceals a martyr’s bones. No marble…
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‘Because I could not stop for Death’ by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
…. Since then ’tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day
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‘In Memory of my dear grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet’ by Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
Anne Bradstreet stares at the worst that can happen, and the worst that can happen stares straight back
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‘To the Union Savers of Cleveland’ by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1824-1911)
But when she, a hunted sister, Stretched her hands that ye might save, Colder far than Zembla’s regions, Was the answer that ye gave.
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‘A Lullaby’ by Janet Lewis (1899-1998)
This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press: http://www.ohioswallow.com Christian Poetry Considered is grateful to Ohio University Press for its kind permission. Lullee, lullay, I could not love thee more If thou wast Christ the King. Now tell me, how did Mary know That in her womb should sleep and grow The Lord…