Elegy XVI: On His Mistress (John Donne Poem)
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise As in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain ...
Mine -- by the Right of the White Election! Mine -- by the Royal Seal! Mine -- by the Sign ...
Just lost, when I was saved! Just felt the world go by! Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, ...
Embarrassment of one another And God Is Revelation's limit, Aloud Is nothing that is chief, But still, Divinity dwells under ...
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons -- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes -- Heavenly Hurt, ...
For more than 40 years we've been good friends, since 1963 in fact, from college where we met (and managed ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
Indeed. These jagged crevasses of the psyche are treacherous, gray. Extending two hundred plus days in every direction; an ominous ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
O THOU undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, ...
O heart, the equal poise of love's both parts, Big alike with wounds and darts, Live in these conquering leaves; ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Too many, Lord, abuse Thy grace In this licentious day, And while they boast they see Thy face, They turn ...
--And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her undinal vast ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
"Are you deaf, Father William!" the young man said, "Did you hear what I told you just now? "Excuse me ...
I hold her letter as I stand, Nor break the seal; no need to guess What dainty little female hand ...
I will not let thee go. Ends all our month-long love in this? Can it be summed up so, Quit ...
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