Through more than forty years between That distant day and this I bear the blessing on my cheek Of Sister Helen's kiss
Voice Recording: Sister Helen’s Kiss
Category: Metric
How Beautiful
... How beautiful, how beautiful, How beautiful this world
Base
... Then you do not act in respectful, Or any honorable, vein — Though this truth’s indeed most regretful — Your base motivation was: gain
Etiquette, You Bet
You can lie your little head off In the most destructive way Shred somebody's happiness With everything you say...
Sonnet: Pioneering Mind
O what a teacher did we have in him! O what a mind he had, and what a heart!...
In the Style of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: O This be Love
O this be love, wherein one single frown Unkind allusion, or a darkened brow Bring all the lover's hopes bring crashing down...
In the Style of William Shakespeare: The Law
Speak soft, but speak! Speak low and calm and clear In spite of dreadful challenge, she is here!
In the Style of Emily Dickinson: After Emily
Ah, this sweet intoxication This benign, divine embrace!...
In the Style of Robert W. Service: What Makes Us Run?
The mid of an Alaskan night Lasts clear on through till Spring One hundred times the darkness Any southern night can bring...
In the Style Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Declaration of Independence
In any life the unaccustomed hour May come at last...
