About The Nightingale (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
From a letter from STC to Wordsworth after writing The Nightingale: In stale blank verse a subject stale I send ...
From a letter from STC to Wordsworth after writing The Nightingale: In stale blank verse a subject stale I send ...
"WHAT'S this?" I pondered. "Have I slept? Or can I have been drinking?" But soon a gentler feeling crept Upon ...
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, ...
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed, was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose. I found ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
I remember, it was a morning, in summer, The window was half-open, I drew near, I could see my father ...
The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev'ry band. Brandy no ...
Upon Bottle Miche the autre day While yet the nuit was early, Je met a homme whose barbe was grey, ...
She does not mind a good cigar (The kind, that is, I smoke); She thinks all men quite stupid are, ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
All things within this fading world hath end, Adversity doth still our joys attend; No ties so strong, no friends ...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
With lingering love she gazed at the dispersed Colors of dusk. It pleased her utterly To lose herself in the ...
Oh days devoted to the useless burden of putting out of mind the biography of a minor poet of the ...
in these red labyrinths of London I find that I have chosen the strangest of all callings, save that, in ...
MADONNA, mistress, I would build for thee An altar deep in the sad soul of me; And in the darkest ...
Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis, Et que ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair Wealth that never yet was but might be--all that verse-making ...
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