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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - part 02

© Torquato Tasso

XVII

"Among the knights and worthies of their train,

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The Passing Of Arthur

© Alfred Tennyson

That story which the bold Sir Bedivere,
First made and latest left of all the knights,
Told, when the man was no more than a voice
In the white winter of his age, to those
With whom he dwelt, new faces, other minds.

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Satyr IX. The State Of Love Imitated Fm An Elegy Of Mons:r Desportes

© Thomas Parnell

Hence lett us hence with Just abhorrence go
for ill their happyness these mortalls know
Who slight the mighty favours I bestow

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Farewell Dark Gaol

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I am your debtor thus and for the pang
Which touched and chastened, and the nights of thought
Which were my years of learning. See I hang
Your image here, a glory all unsought,
About my neck. Thus saints in symbol hold
Their tools of death and darings manifold.

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To Arthur Upson

© William Stanley Braithwaite

How placidly this silent river rolls

  Under the midnight stars before our feet,

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Elegy XV. In Memory of a Private Family in Worcestershire

© William Shenstone

From a lone tower, with reverend ivy crown'd,
The pealing bell awaked a tender sigh;
Still, as the village caught the waving sound,
A swelling tear distream'd from every eye.

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On the Death of Mr. William Hervey

© Abraham Cowley

IT was a dismal and a fearful night:

Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light,

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The Watchman

© Ada Cambridge

  To mothers and to men;
To take him for our heaven-sent guide
On seas he never voyaged-wide
  And wild beyond his ken.

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History of the Twentieth Century (A Roadshow)

© Joseph Brodsky

Ladies and gentlemen and the day!
All ye made of sweet human clay!
Let me tell you: you are o'kay.

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The Fan : A Poem. Book I.

© John Gay

The goddess pleas'd, the curious work receive,
Remounts her chariot, and the grotto leaves;
With the light fan she moves the yielding air,
And gales, till then unknown, play round the fair.

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Song Of The Redwood-Tree

© Walt Whitman

A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air;
  A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or hamadryads departing;
  A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,
  Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.

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On The Death Of Mistress Mary Prideaux

© William Strode

Weep not because this childe hath dyed so yong,
But weepe because yourselves have livde so long:
Age is not fild by growth of time, for then
What old man lives to see th' estate of men?

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Full Moon and Little Frieda

© Ted Hughes

A cool small evening shrunk to a dog bark and the clank of a bucket -
And you listening.
A spider's web, tense for the dew's touch.
A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror
To tempt a first star to a tremor.

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On A Great Hollow Tree

© William Strode

Preethee stand still awhile, and view this tree
Renown'd and honour'd for antiquitie
By all the neighbour twiggs; for such are all
The trees adjoyning, bee they nere so tall,

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On A Dissembler

© William Strode

Could any shewe where Plynyes people dwell
Whose head stands in their breast; who cannot tell
A smoothing lye because their open hart
And lippes are joyn'd so neare, I would depart

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O When Will Cupid Shew Such Arte

© William Strode

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The Four Ages of Man

© Anne Bradstreet

1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage,
1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age.
1.3 The first: son unto Phlegm, grand-child to water,
1.4 Unstable, supple, moist, and cold's his Nature.

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The Art Of War. Book I.

© Henry James Pye

I'll paint the cruel arm from Bayonne nam'd,
Where savage art a new destruction fram'd,
Their powers combin'd where fire and steel impart,
And point a double wound at every heart.

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Prologue

© Anne Bradstreet

1 To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings,
2 Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun,
3 For my mean Pen are too superior things;
4 Or how they all, or each their dates have run,
5 Let Poets and Historians set these forth.
6 My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth.

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Laws For Creations

© Walt Whitman

LAWS for Creations,
For strong artists and leaders-for fresh broods of teachers, and
  perfect literats for America,
For noble savants, and coming musicians.