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Envoy

by Eugene Field

Eugene Field

Prince, show me the quickest way and best
To gain the subject of my moan;
We've neither spinsters nor relics out West--
These do I love, and these alone.




Quotes of the Day

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once

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Poems of the Day
  • Walt Whitman
    Years of the Modern.
    by Walt Whitman
    YEARS of the modern! years of the unperform’d! Your horizon rises—I see it parting away for more august dramas; I see not America only—I see not only Liberty’s nation, but other nations preparing;