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Don Juan: Canto The Fifth

© George Gordon Byron

When amatory poets sing their loves

In liquid lines mellifluously bland,

To whom the King, `Peace to thine eagle-borne
Dead nestling, and this honour after death,
Following thy will! but, O my Queen, I muse
Why ye not wear on arm, or neck, or zone
Those diamonds that I rescued from the tarn,
And Lancelot won, methought, for thee to wear.'

The Island In The South

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

THE ship went down at noonday in a cam,
When not a zephyr broke the crystal sea.
We two escaped alone: we reached an isle
Whereon the water settled languidly

Daniel. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Persons of the Drama.
Darius, King of Media and Babylon.
Pharnaces, Courtier, Enemy to Daniel.
Soranus, dido.
Araspes, A Young Median Lord, Friend and Convert to Daniel
Daniel.

Flowers From Sion: Sonnet 25 - More oft than once death whispered

© William Henry Drummond

More oft than once death whispered in mine ear:

Grave what thou hears in diamond and gold -

Impression, On Returning To England

© Richard Monckton Milnes

In just accordance with attentive sight,
Through airy space and round our planet ball,
The inorganic world is voiced with Light,
And Colors are the words it speaks withal.

Dorchester Amphitheatre .

© John Kenyon

By Rome's old amphitheatre I stood,

Still pretty perfect, on the Weymouth road,

The Canterbury Tales; the Wyves tale of Bathe

© Geoffrey Chaucer

Part 19

A Man Meets A Woman In The Street

© Randall Jarrell

Under the separated leaves of shade

Of the gingko, that old tree

The Rape Of Lucrece

© William Shakespeare

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

Italy : 38. Foreign Travel

© Samuel Rogers

It was in a splenetic humour that I sat me down to my
scanty fare at Terracina ; and how long I should have
contemplated the lean thrushes in array before me, I
cannot say, if a cloud of smoke, that drew the tears

Lords Of The Visionary Eye

© Madison Julius Cawein

I CAME upon a pool that shone,
Clear, emerald-like, among the hills,
That seemed old wizards round a stone
Of magic that a vision thrills.

Ode, written 1739

© William Shenstone

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

Upon A Venerable Rival

Full thirty frosts since thou wert young
Have chilled the withered grove,
Thou wretch! and hast thou lived so long,
Nor yet forgot to love?

Inscriptions: IV: O Youths And Virgins

O youths and virgins: o declining eld:

O pale misfortune's slaves: o ye who dwell

Things of great worth shall come to pass...

Things of great worth shall come to pass
By true foreknowledge and in fact,
Names worthier than mine in fame
And words which earned me men's esteem.

The Time Before Death

© Kabir

Friend? hope for the Guest while you are alive.
Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think... and think... while you are alive.
What you call "salvation" belongs to the time
before death.