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William Blake - My pretty rose tree

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:33:00 GMT

Poetry of William Blake MY PRETTY ROSE TREE A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said, 'I've a pretty rose tree,' And...

Wordswoth - Complaint of a forsaken Indian woman

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:56:00 GMT

William Wordsworth THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN Written at Alfoxden, where I read Hearne's Journey with deep interest. It was composed for the volume of Lyrical Ballads. When...

William Shakespeare - Bosom - Hearts

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:40:00 GMT

Sonnets of William Shakespeare Sonnet 31 XXXI. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts, Which I by lacking have supposed dead, And there reigns love and all love's loving parts...

T.S. Eliot - Sweeney among the Nightingales

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:17:00 GMT

Poetry of T. S. Eliot Sweeney Among the Nightingales Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate...

Tennyson - Lancelot and Elaine

Sat, 31 May 2008 11:11:00 GMT

Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King Lancelot and Elaine Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a...

Amy Lowell - Before the Altar

Fri, 30 May 2008 07:53:00 GMT

Poetry of Amy Lowell A Dome of Many-coloured Glass Before the Altar Before the Altar, bowed, he stands With empty hands; Upon it perfumed offerings burn Wreathing with smoke the...

Walt Whitman - Autumn Rivulets

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:56:00 GMT

Poetry of Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass AUTUMN RIVULETS] } As Consequent, Etc. As consequent from store of summer rains, Or wayward rivulets in autumn flowing, Or many a herb-lined...

William Blake - The Blossom

Wed, 21 May 2008 10:14:00 GMT

Poetry of William Blake THE BLOSSOM Merry, merry sparrow! Under leaves so green A happy blossom Sees you, swift as arrow, Seek your cradle narrow, Near my bosom. Pretty, pretty...

Emily Dickinson - Life

Tue, 20 May 2008 04:10:00 GMT

Poems by Emily Dickinson Life VIII. A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'T is but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The...

T.S. Eliot - Burbank..........

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:49:00 GMT

Poetry of T. S. Eliot Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire--nil nisi divinum stabile est; caetera fumus--the gondola stopped, the old palace was there, how charming its...

William Shakespeare - Sonnet X1V

Sat, 17 May 2008 09:13:00 GMT

Sonnets of William Shakespeare Sonnet 14 XIV. Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy, But not to tell of good or evil...

Emily Dickinson - In a Library

Fri, 16 May 2008 04:59:00 GMT

Poems by Emily Dickinson Life X. IN A LIBRARY. A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I...

William Blake - The little black boy

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:12:00 GMT

Poetry of William Blake THE LITTLE BLACK BOY My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O my soul is white! White as an angel...

William Shakespeare - Not from the stars---

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:19:00 GMT

Sonnets of William Shakespeare Sonnet 14 XIV. Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy, But not to tell of good or evil...

Geoffrey Chaucer - THE FRIAR'S TALE

Thu, 08 May 2008 04:06:00 GMT

GEOFFREY CHAUCER The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems THE FRIAR'S TALE THE PROLOGUE <1> This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the...