Under 11 years Poetry

Long gone

Don't waste your time in looking for
The long extinct tyrannosaur,
Because this ancient dinosaur
Just can't be found here anymore.
This also goes for stegosaurus,
Allosauros, brontosaurus
And any other saur or saurus.
They all lived here long before us.

Jack Prelutsky.

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The eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Alfred Tennyson.

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Summer

Rushes in a watery place,
And reeds in a hollow;
A soaring skylark in the sky,
A darting swallow;
And where pale blossom used to hang
Ripe fruit to follow.

Christina Rosetti.

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Eldorado

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.'...

Edgar Allen Poe

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