Envy poems

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The Castle Of Indolence

© James Thomson

The castle hight of Indolence,
And its false luxury;
Where for a little time, alas!
We lived right jollily.

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Metamorphoses: Book The Eighth

© Ovid

 The End of the Eighth Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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The Rape Of Lucrece

© William Shakespeare

TO THE
RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,
Earl of Southampton, and Baron of Tichfield.

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Of The Nature Of Things: Book III - Part 01 - Proem

© Lucretius

O thou who first uplifted in such dark

So clear a torch aloft, who first shed light

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The Progress of Error

© William Cowper

Sing, muse (if such a theme, so dark, so long

May find a muse to grace it with a song),

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The Problem

© John Greenleaf Whittier

I.
NOT without envy Wealth at times must look
On their brown strength who wield the reaping-hook."
And scythe, or at the forge-fire shape the plough

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A Sketch

© William Wordsworth

The little hedgerow birds,

That peck along the road, regard him not.

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London Types:Life-Guardsman

© William Ernest Henley

Joy of the Milliner, Envy of the Line,

Star of the Parks, jack-booted, sworded, helmed,

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Ode, written 1739

© William Shenstone

Urit spes animi credula mutui.-Hor.
Imitation.
Fond hope of a reciprocal desire
Inflames the breast.

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Canto 1: Narad

© Valmiki

To sainted Nárad, prince of those
Whose lore in words of wisdom flows.
Whose constant care and chief delight
Were Scripture and ascetic rite,

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Those Shadon Bells

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

Those Shandon bells, those Shandon bells!
Whose deep, sad tone now sobs, now swells-
Who comes to seek this hallowed ground,
And sleep within their sacred sound?

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To Sophronia.

© Mary Barber

Those who thy Favour once obtain,
Need not sollicit thee again;
Nor ever at Neglect repine:
Their Wishes and their Cares are thine:
Nor at the Grave thy Friendship ends;
But to Posterity descends.

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The Cathedral Porch

© Robert Laurence Binyon

Towering, towering up to the noon--blaze,
Up to the hot blue, up to blinding gold,
Pillar and pinnacle, arch and corbel, scrolled,
Flowered and tendrilled, soar, aspire and raise

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The Ginestra,

© Giacomo Leopardi

OR THE FLOWER OF THE WILDERNESS.


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The Temple of Fame

© Alexander Pope

In that soft season, when descending show'rs

Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;

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The Centaurs

© Rudyard Kipling

Up came the young Centaur-colts from the plains they were
  fathered in-
  Curious, awkward, afraid.
Burrs on their hocks and their tails, they were branded and gathered in
 Mobs and run up to the yard to be made.

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The Kalevala - Rune XL

© Elias Lönnrot

BIRTH OF THE HARP.


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Fireflies

© Rabindranath Tagore

My fancies are fireflies, —
Specks of living light
twinkling in the dark.

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Animal Tranquility And Decay

© William Wordsworth

The little hedgerow birds,

That peck along the roads, regard him not.

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To the Memory of My Beloved Author, Mr. William Shakespeare

© Benjamin Jonson

To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name,

 Am I thus ample to thy book and fame;