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"To The Reader"
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Denise Levertov (1983)
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"As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron."
"and as you read, the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages." |
Denise Levertov's To The Reader
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"This is Just to Say"
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William Carlos Williams (1934)
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"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox."
"Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold." |
William Carlos Williams "This is Just to Say" 1934
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"You Reading This, Be Ready,"
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William Stafford (1992)
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"How sunlight creeps along a hsining floor?"
"Are you waiting for some better thoughts?" "When you turn around, starting here." "Starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?" |
William Stafford "You reading this, Be Ready."
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"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
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Walt Whitman 1865
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"When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide and measure them."
"When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture -room." "How soon unnacountable I became tired and sick." "Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." |
Walt Whitman's "When I hear'd the Learn'd Astronomer."
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"A Bird Came Down the Walk"
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Emily DIckinson 1862
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"He did not know I saw. He bit the Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw."
"And then he drank a Dew, From a convenient Grass- And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass." |
"A Bird Came Down the Walk." Emily Dickinson
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"The Road Not Taken"
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Robert Frost 1916
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could." "Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear." "And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day!" "I shall be telling this with a sign Somewhere ages and ages hence;" "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." |
Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
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"Danse Russe"
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William Carlos Willians 1883
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"If when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping....and the sun is a flame-white disk."
"if I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely." "If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks, against the yellow drawn shades." "Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?" |
Danse Russe William Carlos Williams
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"Anecdote of the Jar"
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Wallace Stevens 1923
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"I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon ah ill It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill." "It took dominion everywhere The jar was gray and bare It did not give of bird or bush. Like nothing else in Tennessee." |
Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens
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Piano
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DH Lawrence 1918
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"Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see." "And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings." "song, belong, outside, guide." "clamour, glamour, cast, past." |
DH LAWRENCE's Piano
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"Lessons of the War" or "Naming of Parts"
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Henry Reed 1942
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"And today we have naming of parts."
"Japonica" "and tomorrow morning, we shall have what to do after firing." "lower swing swivel." "upper swing swivel." "Which in your case we have not got." "This is the safety-catch." "Rapidly backwards and forwards." "the early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers." "They call it easing the Spring, it is perfectly easy." "Almond-blossom" |
Henry Reed Naming of Parts
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"The Day Lady DIed."
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Frank O'Hara 1964
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"It is 12 20 in New York a Friday."
"Three days after Bastille day, yes." "I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun" "I have a hamburger and a malted and buy...." "Miss Stillwagon (first name Linda I once heard." GOLDEN GRIFFIN "PARK LANE" "NEW YORK POST" |
Frank O'Hara's the Day Lady Died
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"The Snow Man"
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Wallace Stevens 1923
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"One must have a mind of winder
of the pine-trees crusted with snow." "to behold the junipers shagged with ice, the spruces rough in the distant glitter." "Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of wind,." "For the listener, who listens in the snow." "Nothing that is not there and nothing that is." |
Wallace Stevens the Snow Man
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"Mending Wall"
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Robert Frost 1914
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"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
"And on a day we meet to walk the line. And set the wall between us as we go." "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" "He is all pine and I am apple orchard." |
"The Mending Wall" Robert Frost
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"To The Reader"
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Denise Levertov 1983
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"a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron."
"eyes of obsidian." "the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages." |
Denise Levertov "To The Reader"
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"Winter Jelly"
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Philip Whalen 1963
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"New year's full moon blur window fog"
"Words in books drop slowly over brainwheel paddles." "Clear white ice moon sparkle." |
"Winter Jelly" Philip Whalen
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"This is Just to Say"
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William Carlos Williams 1934
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"I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox."
"Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold." |
"This is Just to Say" William Carlos Williams 1934
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"You Reading This, Be Ready"
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William Stafford 1992
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"When you turn around, starting here, lift this new glimpse that you found; carry into evening all that you want from this day."
"What can anyone give you greater than now, starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?" |
William Stafford "You Reading This, Be Ready"
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"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
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Walt Whitman 1865
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"When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them."
"When I was sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room." "Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars." |
"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" By Walt Whitman
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"A Bird Came Down the Walk"
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Emily Dickinson 1862
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"He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw."
"And then hopped sidewise to the Wall to let a Beetle pass." "He glance with rapid eyes That hurried all around they looked like frightened Beads, I thought--he stirred his velvet head." |
Emily Dickinson's "A Bird Came Down the Walk."
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"The Road Not Taken"
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Robert Frost
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood."
"Then took the other just as fair and having perhaps the better claim because it was grassy and wanted wear." "Had worn them really about the same." "Oh, I kept the first for another day!" "I doubted if I should ever come back." "I doubted if I should ever come back." "I should be telling this with a sigh ages and ages hence." "And that made all the difference." |
Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken" 1916
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"Danse Russe"
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William Carlos Williams 1917
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"If I in my north room dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror."
"Waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself." "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely." "Yellow drawn shade.s" "The happy genius of my household?" |
William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"
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"Anecdote of the Jar"
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Wallace Stevens 1923
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"I placed a jar in Tennessee."
"The Jar was round upon the ground and tall and of a port in air." "It took dominion everywhere. The Jar was gray and bare" "Like nothing else in Tennessee." |
"Anecdote of the Jar" Wallace Stevens 1923
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"Naming of Parts"
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Henry Reed 1946
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"Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday, we had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, we shall have what to do after firing. But today, today we have naming of parts. Japonica."
"This is the lower swing swivel. And this is the upper swing swivel." "This is the safety-catch, which is always released. With an easy flick of the thumb." "We can slide it rapidly backwards and forwards." "They call it easing the Spring." "the almond-blossom, silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards. For Today we have naming of parts." |
"Naming of Parts" Henry Reed 1946
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"The Day Lady Died"
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Frank O'Hara 1964
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"It is 12:20 in New York a Friday, three days after Bastille day."
"It is 1959 and I got a shoe shine." "Lots of mention of times, "4:19,7:15, 12:20, etc." "I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly, NEW WORLD WRITING." "I stick with Verlain." "And for Mike I just stroll into the PARK LANE Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I cam from to 6th avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfield Theatre." "and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it." |
Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died"
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"Piano"
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D.H. Lawrence 1918
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"Softly, in the dusk a woman is singing to me. Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see."
"tingling strings, and pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings." "to the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside." "so now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour, with the great black piano appassionato." "DOWN IN THE FLOOD OF REMEMBRANCE I WEEP LIKE A CHILD OF THE PAST." |
Piano DH Lawrence
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"The Fish"
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Elizabeth Bishop 1946 (same date as Naming of Parts)
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"I caught a tremendous fish."
"hald out of the water, with my hook." "He didn't fight, he hadn't fought at all." "He wa sspeckled with barnales, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice." "I looked into his eyes, which were far larger than mine, but shallower, and yellowed, the irises back and packed with tarnished tinfoil." "Where the oil had spread like a rainbow." "until everything was rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go." |
"The Fish" Elizabeth Bishop
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"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
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Adrienne Rich 1951
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"Find even the ivory needle hard to pull. The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band. Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand."
"When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie. Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by. " "The tigers in the panel that she made will go on prancing, proud, and unafraid." |
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers by Adrienne Rich
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"My Papa's Waltz"
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Theodore Roethke 1948
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"The whiskey on your breathe, could make a small boy dizzy."
"But I hung on like death, such waltzing was not easy." "The hand that held my wrist, was battered on one knuckle." "My right ear scraped a buckle." 'You beat time on my head." "Then waltzed me off to bed. Stil clinging to your shirt." |
"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
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"The Snow Man"
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Wallace Stevens 1923
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"One must have am ind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine-trees crusted with snow."
"And have been cold a long time to behold the junipers shagged with ice, the spruces rough in distant glitter." "For the listener who listens in the snow, and nothing himself, beholds nothing tht is not there and nothing that is." |
"the Snow Man" Wallace Stevens (also wrote the Anecdote of the Jar"
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"Those Winter Sundays"
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Robert Hayden 1962
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"Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold."
"with cracked hands that ached." "No one ever thanked him." "I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house." "What did I know, What did I know of love's lonely and austere offices?" |
"Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden
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"Mending Wall"
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Robert Frost 1914
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"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
"rabbit out of hiding, to please the yelping dogs." "and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again." "stay where you are until our backs are turned!" "He is all pine and I am apple orchard." "He only says, good fences make good neighbors." "Why do they make good neighbors?" "What was I walling in or walling out?" |
Mending Wall Robert Frost
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"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
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Christopher Marlowe 1600
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"Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields." "And we will sit upon the rocks, seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks." "and if these pleasures, may thee move, come live with me, and be my love." "If these delight my mind may move, then live with me and be my love." |
Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love"
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"The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd"
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Sir Walter Raleigh 1600
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"These pretty pleasures might me move, to live with thee and be they love."
"The flowers do fade, and wanton fields." "Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, they cap, thy kirtle, and they posies." "Soon break, soon whither, soon forgotten--in folly ripe, in reason rotten." "Then these delights my mind might move, to live with thee and be thy love." |
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sonnet 75
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Edmund Spenser
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"One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away."
"A mortal thing so to immortalize." "To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame." "And in the heavens write your glorious name." "Our love shall live, and later life renew." |
Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 75
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Sonnet 61
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Michael Drayton 1919
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"Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part."
"Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows." "And when we meet again at any time again. Be it not seen in either of our brows that one jot of former love retain." "Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath." "When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death and innocence is closing up his eyes." |
Michael Drayton's Sonnet 61
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"Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest."
"you art thy mother's glass, and she in thee." "Calls back the lovely April of her prime; so thou through windows of thine age shalt see." "Despite the wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if thou live remembr'ed not to be." "Die single, and thing image dies with thee." |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 3: MIRROR
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"When do I count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night." "When lofty trees I see barren of leaves." "Then of thy beauty do I question. That thou among the wastes of time must go." "Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake and die as fast as they see others grow." "And nothing gainst Time's scythe can make defense." |
Shakespeare's sonnet 12 :TIME
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
"Thou art more lovely and more temperate" "But they eternal summer shall not fade." "Nor lose possession of that fair thou Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time, tho grow'st." "so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee." |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: SUMMER
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"Desiring this man's art and that man's"
"Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, happily I think on the--and then my state." "For thy sweet love rememb'red such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings." |
Shakespeare's sonnet 29
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"And weep afresh love's long since canceled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight."
"Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell o'er." |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 30
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"No longer mourn for me when I am dead."
"Nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it; for I love you so." "That I in your sweet thoughts wuld be forgot if thinking on me then should make you woe." "Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, but let your love even with my life decay." |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 71
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"When yellow leaves, or non, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold."
"Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day." "In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire. That on the ashes of his youth doth lie." "This thou perceiv'stm which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long." |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
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"They that have the poer to hurt and will do none, that o not do the thing they must do show."
"They rightly do inherit heaven's graces, and husband nature's riches from expense;" "the summer's flower is to the summer sweet, thou to itself only live and die." "for sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds." |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 94
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"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun." "I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight." "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know. That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground." "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare." |
Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
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"Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motion lovers' seasons run?" "But that I would not loser her sight so long; if her eyes had not blinded thin, look, and tomorrow late, tell me." "Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy. Thou, sun art half as happy as we, in that the world's contracted thus." "Shine here to us and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere." |
"The Sun Rising" by John Donne 1633
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"As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends to say The breath goes now, and some say, no." "So, let us melt and make no noise." "Dull sublunary lovers' love." "Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it." |
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne
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"The Funeral"
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John Donne 1633
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"Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm nor question much."
"The subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm." "For if the sinewy thread my brain lets fall, through every part." "These hairs, which upward grew, and strength and art Can better do it, except she meant!" "Whatever seh meant by it, bury it with me, For since I am Love's martyr, it might breed idolatory." "that since you would save none of me, I bury some of you." |
"The Funeral" by John Donne 1633
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"To His Coy Mistress."
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Andrew Marvell
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"I would love you 10 years before the flood, and you should if you please, refuse."
"An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; two hundred to adore each breast, but thirty thousand to the rest." "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." "My echoing song then worms shall try that long-preserved virginity, and your quaint honor turn to dust, and into ashes all my lust:" "Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour." |
"To his Coy Mistress." Andrew Marvell
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"Lines" "Tintern Abbey"
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William Wordsworth
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"Five years have passed; five summers with the length of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs."
"little lines." "The beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me Through a long absence, have not been to me. As in a landscape to a blind man's eye." |
"Lines" "Tintern Abbey" William Wordsworth
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"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a NUn Breathless with adoration; the broad sun" "Listen! The mighty Being is awake, and doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting." "Dear Child! Dear Girl! That walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all year." |
"It's a Beauteous Evening" By Willia Wordsworth 1807
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"As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breathe goes now, and some say, no." "So, let us melt and make no noise." "Dull sublunary lovers' love." "Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it." |
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." by John Donne
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"Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm nor question much."
"The subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm." "For if the sinewy thread my brain lets fall, through very part." "These hairs, which upward grew, and strength and art Can better do' it, except she meant I." "Whatever she meant by it, bury it with me, For since I am. Love martyr, it might breed idolatry." "That since you would save non of me. I bury some of you." |
"The Funeral" By John Donne 1633
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