Sonnet XLVII: In Pride of Wit (Michael Drayton Poem)
In pride of wit when high desire of fame Gave life and courage to my laboring pen, And first the ...
In pride of wit when high desire of fame Gave life and courage to my laboring pen, And first the ...
No idle gold -- since this fine sun, my friend, Is no mean miser, but doth freely spend. No prescious ...
Let me but love my love without disguise, Nor wear a mask of fashion old or new, Nor wait to ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
The mountains that enfold the vale With walls of granite, steep and high, Invite the fearless foot to scale Their ...
It's all a farce,-these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the ...
He that cannot choose but love, And strives against it still, Never shall my fancy move, For he loves 'gainst ...
This dirty -- little -- Heart Is freely mine. I won it with a Bun -- A Freckled shrine -- ...
The butterfly obtains But little sympathy Though favorably mentioned In Entomology -- Because he travels freely And wears a proper ...
The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed -- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified By every Broom ...
But I am not yet dead and yet I rest my head sweetly on the bare gravestones of great poets, ...
My beloved called to me to come and see Steve's tears, he was crying on TV; Steve Irwin, The Crocodile ...
My enemy my friend whom I know without compromise, when I listened to the deconstructions avowed of you as your ...
THE ORB I like is not the one That dazzles with its lightning gleam; That dares to look upon the ...
Partly to verify an era, partly also to pass the time, last night I picked up a collection of Ptolemaic ...
From all I've done and all I've said let them not seek to find who I've been. An obstacle stood ...
Let them not seek to discover who I was from all that I have done and said. An obstacle was ...
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, ...
No strength of nature can suffice To serve the Lord aright: And what she has she misapplies, For want of ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Forth went the candid man And spoke freely to the wind -- When he looked about him he was in ...
There was a land where lived no violets. A traveller at once demanded : "Why?" The people told him: "Once ...
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
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