Dives and Lazarus, Child Ballad #56
> As it fell out upon a day, Rich Dives he made a feast, And he invited all his friends, And gentry of the best. > »
IX. If Poisonous Minerals, and If That Tree
> If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on (else immortal) us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damn’d, »
The Second Coming, by William Butler Yeats
> Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon »
September 1, 1939, by W.H. Auden
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger »
In Memoriam A.H.H., Alfred Lord Tennyson
> On that last night before we went From out the doors where I was bred, I dream'd a vision of the dead, Which »