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Walt Whitman: A Riddle Song

A Riddle SongThat which eludes this verse and any verse, Unheard by sharpest ear, unform'd in clearest eye or cunningest mind, Nor lore nor fame, nor happiness nor wealth, And yet the pulse…

John Donne: Love's Exchange

Love's ExchangeLove, any devil else but you Would for a given soul give something too. At court your fellows every day Give th' art of rhyming, huntsmanship, or play, For them which were…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: V

VMask thy wisdom with delight, Toy with the bow, yet hit the white, As Jelaleddin old and gray; He seemed to bask, to dream and play Without remoter hope or fear Than still to entertain his…

William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act I

Act IPrologueBefore the palace of AntiochEnter GowerGowerTo sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man's infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes…

The Koran/Sura LXXXV — The Starry

Sura LXXXV — The StarryMecca — 22 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful BY the star-bespangled Heaven![73] By the promised Day! By the witness and the witnessed![74]…

The Koran/Sura I

Sura I[42]Mecca — 7 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful PRAISE be to God, Lord of the worlds! The compassionate, the merciful! King on the day of reckoning! Thee…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 7

Part 7Away with themes of war! away with war itself! Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses! That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit…