For Concord and self-reliance, from The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman.
from A Letter / by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
And mark the rising of the early stars.
There will I bring my books
17th-Century English Poetry
DPF / Jonson
from To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare / by Ben Jonson
And art alive still while thy book doth live,
And we have wits to read and praise to give.
DPF / Milton
from Paradise Lost / by John Milton
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she eat.
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all the works gave signs of woe,
That all was lost.
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