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Farewells & Good Luck

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  • Poem
    By William Wordsworth
    Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower
    Of beauty is thy earthly dower!
    Twice seven consenting years have shed
    Their utmost bounty on thy head:
    And these grey rocks; that household lawn;
    Those trees, a veil just half withdrawn;
    This fall of water that doth make
    A murmur...
  • Poem
    By Yvor Winters
    This is the terminal: the light
    Gives perfect vision, false and hard;
    The metal glitters, deep and bright.
    Great planes are waiting in the yard—
    They are already in the night.

    And you are here beside me, small,
    Contained and fragile, and intent
    On things that I...
  • Poem
    By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
    So, we'll go no more a roving
       So late into the night,
    Though the heart be still as loving,
       And the moon be still as bright.

    For the sword outwears its sheath,
       And the soul wears out the breast,
    And the heart must pause to breathe,
       And...
  • Poem
    By Rudyard Kipling
    If you can keep your head when all about you   
        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
        But make allowance for their doubting too;   
    If you can wait and not be...
  • Poem
    By Simon J. Ortiz
    You could drive blind
    for those two seconds
    and they would be forever.
    I think that as a diesel truck
    passes us eight miles east of Mission.
    Churning through the storm, heedless
    of the hill sliding away.
    There isn’t much use to curse but I do.
    Words fly...
  • Poem
    By Thomas Hardy
    Dora’s gone to Ireland
        Through the sleet and snow;
    Promptly she has gone there
        In a ship, although
    Why she’s gone to Ireland
        Dora does not know.

    That was where, yea, Ireland,
        Dora wished to...
  • Poem
    By Derek Walcott
    Then all the nations of birds lifted together
    the huge net of the shadows of this earth
    in multitudinous dialects, twittering tongues,
    stitching and crossing it. They lifted up
    the shadows of long pines down trackless slopes,
    the shadows of glass-faced towers down evening streets,
    the...
  • Poem
    By Bashō
    Translated By Jane Hirshfield
    In Kyoto,
    hearing the cuckoo,
    I long for Kyoto.
  • Poem
    By William Shakespeare
    How like a winter hath my absence been
    From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
    What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
    What old December's bareness everywhere!
    And yet this time remov'd was summer's time,
    The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
    Bearing...
  • Poem
    By Denise Levertov
    Genial poets, pink-faced   
    earnest wits—
    you have given the world   
    some choice morsels,
    gobbets of language presented
    as one presents T-bone steak
    and Cherries Jubilee.   
    Goodbye, goodbye,
                                I don’t care
    if I never taste your fine food again,   
    neutral fellows, seers of every side.   
    Tolerance, what crimes
    are committed in your...
  • Poem
    By Gwendolyn Brooks
    —And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday,
    And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday—
    When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed,
    Or me sitting on the front-room radiator in the limping afternoon
    Looking off down...
  • Poem
    By Harriet Monroe
    Good-bye!—no, do not grieve that it is over,
       The perfect hour;
    That the winged joy, sweet honey-loving rover,
       Flits from the flower.

    Grieve not—it is the law. Love will be flying—
       Yes, love and all.
    Glad was the living—blessed be the dying.
       Let the leaves fall.
  • Poem

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    Mapping the Genome

    By Michael Symmons Roberts
    Geneticist as driver, down the gene
    codes in, let's say, a topless coupe
    and you keep expecting bends,

    real tyre-testers on tight
    mountain passes, but instead it's dead
    straight, highway as runway,

    helix unravelled as vista,
    as vanishing point. Keep your foot
    down. This is a finite desert.

    You...
  • Poem
    By Christina Rossetti
    Remember me when I am gone away,
             Gone far away into the silent land;
             When you can no more hold me by the hand,
    Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
    Remember me when no more day by...
  • Poem
    By Edgar Albert Guest
    When you’re up against a trouble,
        Meet it squarely, face to face;
    Lift your chin and set your shoulders,
        Plant your feet and take a brace.
    When it’s vain to try to dodge it,
        Do the best...
  • Poem
    By Edgar Albert Guest
    How much grit do you think you’ve got?
    Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?
    You may talk of pluck; it’s an easy word,
    And where’er you go it is often heard;
    But can you tell to a jot or guess
    Just...
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