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The Round Table or, King Arthur's Feast

© Thomas Love Peacock

 His speech was cut short by a general dismay;
For William the Second had fainted away,
At the smell of some New Forest venison before him;
But a tweak on the nose, Arthur said, would restore him.

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The Myth of Arthur

© Gilbert Keith Chesterton

O learned man who never learned to learn,


Save to deduce, by timid steps and small,

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To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory

© Phillis Wheatley

The warmest blessings which a muse can give,
And when this transitory state is o'er,
When kingdoms fall, and fleeting Fame's no more,
May Amory triumph in immortal fame,
A nobler title, and superior name!

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To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor

© Phillis Wheatley

All-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,
Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!
Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,
Forget their splendors, and submit to die!

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On The Death Of J. C. An Infant

© Phillis Wheatley

NO more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rife,
Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes,
No more with joy we view that lovely face
Smiling, disportive, flush'd with ev'ry grace.

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Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton

© Thomas Stearns Eliot

Time and the bell have buried the day,
The black cloud carries the sun away.
Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematis
Stray down, bend to us; tendril and spray
Clutch and cling?

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To A Young Lady

© John Trumbull


From me, not famed for much goodnature,
Expect not compliment, but satire;
To draw your picture quite unable,
Instead of fact accept a Fable.

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M'Fingal - Canto IV

© John Trumbull


"For me, before that fatal time,
I mean to fly th' accursed clime,
And follow omens, which of late
Have warn'd me of impending fate.

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M'Fingal - Canto II

© John Trumbull


"T' evade these crimes of blackest grain
You prate of liberty in vain,
And strive to hide your vile designs
In terms abstruse, like school-divines.

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mr youse needn't be so spry... (XVIII)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions artyeach has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain partygimme the he-man's solid bliss
for youse ideas i'll match yousea pretty girl who naked is

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proud of his scientific attitude... (13)

© Edward Estlin Cummings

proud of his scientific attitudeand liked the prince of wales wife wants to die
but the doctors won't let her comman considers frood
whom he pronounces young mistaken and
cradles in rubbery one somewhat hand

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Epithalamion

© Edward Estlin Cummings

I.Thou aged unreluctant earth who dost
with quivering continual thighs invite
the thrilling rain the slender paramour
to toy with thy extraordinary lust,

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Destiny

© Emma Lazarus

1856 Paris, from throats of iron, silver, brass,
Joy-thundering cannon, blent with chiming bells,
And martial strains, the full-voiced pæan swells.
The air is starred with flags, the chanted mass

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Man Listening To Disc

© Billy Collins

This is not bad --
ambling along 44th Street
with Sonny Rollins for company,
his music flowing through the soft calipers
of these earphones,

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Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude

© Thomas Gray

Now the golden Morn aloft
Waves her dew-bespangled wing,
With vermeil cheek and whisper soft
She wooes the tardy Spring:

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Troilus And Criseyde: Book 04

© Geoffrey Chaucer

'For thilke day that I for cherisshinge
Or drede of fader, or of other wight,
Or for estat, delyt, or for weddinge,
Be fals to yow,

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Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01

© Geoffrey Chaucer

The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen,
That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,
In lovinge, how his aventures fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye,

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The Cook's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer


1. Jack of Dover: an article of cookery. (Transcriber's note:
suggested by some commentators to be a kind of pie, and by
others to be a fish)

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The Man of Law's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer


1. Plight: pulled; the word is an obsolete past tense from
"pluck."