Sonnet XXXV: Some, Misbelieving (Michael Drayton Poem)
To Miracle Some, misbelieving and profane in love, When I do speak of miracles by thee, May say, that thou ...
To Miracle Some, misbelieving and profane in love, When I do speak of miracles by thee, May say, that thou ...
Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
I hear some say, "This man is not in love." "What? Can he love? A likely thing," they say; "Read ...
FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
I BIRTHDAY VERSES Dear Aldrich, now November's mellow days Have brought another Festa round to you, You can't refuse a ...
At his Birthday Feast With memories old and wishes new We crown our cups again, And here's to you, and ...
To earn it by disdaining it Is Fame's consummate Fee -- He loves what spurns him -- Look behind -- ...
The Clover's simple Fame Remembered of the Cow -- Is better than enameled Realms Of notability. Renown perceives itself And ...
The Bird did prance -- the Bee did play -- The Sun ran miles away So blind with joy he ...
Superfluous were the Sun When Excellence be dead He were superfluous every Day For every Day be said That syllable ...
Step lightly on this narrow spot -- The broadest Land that grows Is not so ample as the Breast These ...
Life, and Death, and Giants -- Such as These -- are still -- Minor -- Apparatus -- Hopper of the ...
He gave away his Life -- To Us -- Gigantic Sum -- A trifle -- in his own esteem -- ...
Gathered into the Earth, And out of story -- Gathered so that strange Fame -- That lonesome Glory That hath ...
Be Mine the Doom -- Sufficient Fame -- To perish in Her Hand! (Emily Dickinson)
Although I put away his life -- An Ornament too grand For Forehead low as mine, to wear, This might ...
Above Oblivion's Tide there is a Pier And an effaceless "Few" are lifted there -- Nay -- lift themselves -- ...
I cannot live with You -- It would be Life -- And Life is over there -- Behind the Shelf ...
For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace, their parent vines had all but browned and died although a ...
Advertisements, they've trashed the web, somehow they've gotten into bed with common sense; ubiquitous and so intense, insistent as to ...
FOR a name unknown, Whose fame unblown Sleeps in the hills For ever and aye; For her who hears The ...
In Memory of John Keats By the Aurelian Wall, Where the long shadows of the centuries fall From Caius Cestius' ...
1/ Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover ...
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the ...
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God, And read, with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or ...
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