The Vote Excerpt

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This only grant me : that my means may lie

Too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Some honour I would have,

Not from great deeds, but good alone ;

Th’ ignote are better than ill-known,

Rumor can ope the grave.

Acquaintance I would hug, but when ‘t depends

Not from the number, but the choice of friends.

Books should, not business, entertain the light,

And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night.

My house a cottage more

Than palace, and should fitting be

For all my use, no luxury.

My garden painted o’er

With nature’s hand, not art’s, and pleasures yield

Horace might envy in his Sabine field.

Thus would I double my life’s fading space,

For he that runs it well twice runs his race.

And in this true delight,

These unbought sports and happy state

I would not fear, nor wish my fate,

But boldly say each night,

To-morrow let my sun his beams display,

Or in clouds hide them ; I have lived to-day.

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Poems in English 

• At the Galleria Shopping Mall by Tony Hoagland by Poetry In English
• America by Tony Hoagland by Poetry In English
• A Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland by Poetry In English
• To His Mistress In Absence by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• “What weeping, or what dewfall,” by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• “Once we were happy” by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• “O you, far colder, whiter” by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• “Life of my life, you seem to me” by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• “Hedge, that divides the lovely” by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso
• Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso by Torquato Tasso

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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