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Infant Joy
2023-12-06`I have no name: I am but two days old.' What shall I call thee? `I happy am, Joy is my name.' Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty Joy! Sweet Joy, b...
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Punishment and Forgiveness
2023-12-06Why should Punishment weave the veil with Iron Wheels of War, When Forgiveness might it weave with Wings of Cherubim?...
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The Little Black Boy
2023-12-06My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereav&...
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The Lament of Albion
2023-12-06O what is Life and what is Man? O what is Death? Wherefore Are you, my Children, natives in the Grave to where I go? Or are you born to feed the hungr...
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Laughing Song
2023-12-06When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green ...
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A Female Will
2023-12-06What may Man be? who can tell? But what may Woman be, To have power over Man from Cradle to corruptible Grave? There is a Throne in every Man: it is t...
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Nurse's Song (1)
2023-12-06And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. `Then come home, my children, the sun is gone d...
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The Universal Family
2023-12-06Our Wars are wars of life, and wounds of love, With intellectual spears, and long wingèd arrows of thought. Mutual in one another's love an...
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Holy Thursday (1)
2023-12-06'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, The children walking two and two, in red and blue and green, Grey-headed beadles walk'd ...
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Man's Spectre
2023-12-06Each Man is in his Spectre's power Until the arrival of that hour, When his Humanity awake, And cast his Spectre into the Lake....