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Leisure, by W. H. Davies
Full text of the poem, plus audio. “WHAT is this life if, full of care, / We have no time to stand and stare?—”
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Daffodils, by William Wordsworth
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous ...
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Horatius, by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Full text of the poem, plus audio. “LARS Porsena of Clusium / By the Nine Gods he swore / That the great house of Tarquin / Should suffer wrong no more.”
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If—, by Rudyard Kipling
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or be...
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The Sentry, by Wilfred Owen
Full text of the poem, plus audio. “We’d found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, / And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell / Hammered on top, but never quite burst through.”
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, by William Wordsworth
THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath ...