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Eldorado

by Edgar Allan Poe

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old -
This knight so bold -
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow -
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be -
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied -
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

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by William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Shall I Compare Thee,

(Sonnet XVIII)

The Ring On Her
Finger

by Myself

The ring on her finger
Meant nothing to me.
For despite all her warnings,
We continued to see.

Her body was beauty,
Her hair long and red.
Our love for each other
Came out in bed.

We made love in hotels
While he was away.
Our passion for each other
Blossomed more every day.

Our bodies entwined,
She was so hot to hold,
But I still saw on the shelf
That ring made of gold.

One night while we lay there,
All covered in sweat,
A man with a gun
Burst in, and we met.

I leave the old church
To a place just out West,
Followed by lines of people
And then laid to rest.

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