Sonnet III: Taking My Pen (Michael Drayton Poem)
Taking my pen, with words to cast my woe, Duly to count the sum of all my cares, I find ...
Taking my pen, with words to cast my woe, Duly to count the sum of all my cares, I find ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
The Summer that we did not prize, Her treasures were so easy Instructs us by departing now And recognition lazy ...
Declaiming Waters none may dread -- But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature ...
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine, Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine! Oh the Earth ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
Every so often he vows to start a better life. But when night comes with her own counsels, with her ...
WIFE and servant are the same, But only differ in the name : For when that fatal knot is ty'd, ...
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries, ``Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row ...
The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer ...
O God, whose favorable eye, The sin-sick soul revives, Holy and heavenly is the joy Thy shining presence gives. Not ...
Written when the news arrived. Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more! All sunk beneath the wave ...
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
It was a storefront for a small-time numbers runner, pretending to be some sort of grocery. Coffeemakers and Bustello cans ...
In your hidden memories There are fatal tidings of doom... A curse on sacred traditions, A desecration of happiness; And ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that ...
Twice ten years old not fully told since nature gave me breath, My race is run, my thread spun, lo, ...
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