I'M NOBODY! BY EMILY DICKINSON I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I met a traveller from an antique land "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" TO THE STONE CUTTERS BY ROBINSON JEFFERS Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Challengers of oblivion, Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind, his heart blackening: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey peace in old poems. MY HOUSE BY MAY WILLIAMS WARD My house is small, Absurdity Sucked by gravity Against immensity, THE BEASTS BY WALT WHITMAN I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain❜d; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. ONE IN THE INFINITE BY GEORGE FRANCIS SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG Roll on, and with thy rolling crust |