Sonnet XXXVIII: Sitting Alone, Love (Michael Drayton Poem)
Sitting alone, Love bids me go and write; Reason plucks back, commanding me to stay, Boasting that she doth still ...
Sitting alone, Love bids me go and write; Reason plucks back, commanding me to stay, Boasting that she doth still ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
When Stiivoren town was in its prime And queened the Zuyder Zee, Its ships went out to every clime With ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
Amber husk fluted with gold, fruit on the sand marked with a rich grain, treasure spilled near the shrub-pines to ...
Pray why are you so bare, so bare, Oh, bough of the old oak-tree; And why, when I go through ...
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
...Preamble A rough draft for an ars poetica . . . . . . . Let's get our dreams unstuck ...
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
(Matthew, xiii.3) Ye sons of earth prepare the plough, Break up your fallow ground; The sower is gone forth to ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to ...
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
How sweet and pleasant grows the way Through summer time again While Landrails call from day to day Amid the ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Summer pleasures they are gone like to visions every one And the cloudy days of autumn and of winter cometh ...
I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep, within my heart the fear that wind or ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
As I was carving images from clouds, And tinting them with soft ethereal dyes Pressed from the pulp of dreams, ...
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair, Swimming in the pure quiet air! Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while ...
Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted, I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not ...
Now that we've done our best and worst, and parted, I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not ...
Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone, The silent night's the fittest time for moan; But stay this ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
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