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To My Lord and Master

George MacDonald

Imagination cannot rise above thee;
Near and afar I see thee, and I love thee;
My misery away from me I thrust it,
For thy perfection I behold, and trust it.




Quotes of the Day

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again

• Oscar Wilde



Poems of the Day
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    At The Ship's Rail
    by Harriet Monroe
    The blue sea bends to the ship Like a dancer with skirts of lace- Wide diaphanous laces that curl and dip In the ardent wind's embrace. Little rainbows dash at the play And die of joy in the sun;