by Katherine Phillips Come, my Lucasia, since we seeThat Miracles Men’s Faith do move,By wonder and by prodigyTo the dull angry world let’s proveThere’s a Religion in our Love.For though we were design’d t’agree,That Fate no liberty destroyes,But our Election is as freeAs Angels, who with greedy choiceAre yet determined to their jokes.Our hearts areContinue reading “Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia”
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Sonnet to Liberty
by Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes See nothing save their own unlovely woe, Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, – But that the roar of thy Democracies, Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies, Mirror my wildest passions like the sea And give my rage aContinue reading “Sonnet to Liberty”
The Prisoner
by Emil Brontë Still let my tyrants know, I am not doom’d to wear Year after year in gloom and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty. He comes with Western winds, with evening’s wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that bringsContinue reading “The Prisoner”
Robin's Nest 