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Sleep softly... eagle forgotten... under the stone.
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I will not be a slave to my yesterday. I am creator, not a parrot.
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Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
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Spring came on forever,
Spring came on forever,
Said the Chinese nightingale.
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Booth died blind and still by faith he trod,
Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God.
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The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.
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Booth led boldly with his big bass drum—
(Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?)
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Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black,
Cutting through the forest with a golden track.
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Let not young souls be smothered out
Before they do quaint deeds
And fully flaunt their pride.
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Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago, He bound it and enclosed it With angles thus and so.
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God lead us past the setting of the sun
To wizard islands, of august surprise;
God make our blunders wise.
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A natural king
With a raven wing,
Cold no more,
Weary no more,
Old, old,
Old, old,
Andrew Jackson.
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The Grasshopper, the grasshopper, I will explain to you: He is the Brownies' racehorse, The fairies' Kangaroo.
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I think that my first poetic impulse is for music; second a definite conception with the ring of the universe...
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Be careful what you do,
Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,
And all of the other Gods of the Congo,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.
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Factory windows are always broken.
Somebody's always throwing bricks,
Somebody's always heaving cinders,
Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.
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Angels come down, with Christmas in their hearts,
Gentle, whimsical, laughing, heaven-sent;
And, for a day, fair Peace have given me.
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Planting the trees that would march and train On, in his name to the great Pacific, Like Birnam Wood to Dunsinane, Johnny Appleseed swept on.
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Yes, I have walked in California,
And the rivers there are blue and white.
Thunderclouds of grapes hang on the mountains.
Bears in the meadows pitch and fight.
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The moon? It is a griffin's egg
Hatching tomorrow night …
Yet gentle will the griffin be,
Most decorous and fat,
And walk up to the Milky Way
And lap it like a cat.
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A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black, A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl Make him the quaint great figure that men love, The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.
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I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.
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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.
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Our Christmas shall be rare at dawning there,
And each shall find his brother fair,
Like a little child within:
All hearts of the earth shall find new birth
And wake, no more to sin.
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Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
Barrel-house kings; with feet unstable,
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table,
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
November 10, 1879
Died:
December 5, 1931
(aged 52)
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