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Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty

© Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye,

Like the last orphan leaf of naked tree

Primacy Of Mind

© Alfred Austin

Above the glow of molten steel,
The roar of furnace, forge, and shed,
Protectress of the City's weal,
Now, Learning rears her loftier head;

To Eva Descending The Stair

© Sylvia Plath

Clocks cry: stillness is a lie, my dear;
The wheels revolve, the universe keeps running.
(Proud you halt upon the spiral stair.)

The Muses Threnodie: Third Muse

These be the first memorials of a bridge,
Good Monsier, that we truely can alledge.
Thus spoke good Gall, and I did much rejoyce
To hear him these antiquities disclose;
Which I remembering now, of force must cry
Gall, sweetest Gall, what ailed thee to die?

Sonnets to the Sundry Notes of Music

© William Shakespeare

I.
IT was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three,
That liked of her master as well as well might be,
Till looking on an Englishman, the fair'st that eye could see,
Her fancy fell a-turning.

Prosopopoia : or, Mother Hubbards Tale

© Edmund Spenser

Yet he the name on him would rashly take,
Maugre the sacred Muses, and it make
A servant to the vile affection
Of such, as he depended most upon;
And with the sugrie sweete thereof allure
Chast Ladies eares to fantasies impure.

The Saddest Hour

© Wilcox Ella Wheeler

The saddest hour of anguish and of loss
Is not that season of supreme despair
When we can find no least light anywhere
To gild the dread, black shadow of the Cross;

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire

© George Gordon Byron

These are the themes that claim our plaudits now;
These are the bards to whom the muse must bow;
While Milton, Dryden, Pope, alike forgot,
Resign their hallow'd bays to Walter Scott.

Valediction to his Book

© John Donne

I'LL tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do

To anger destiny, as she doth us ;

Poem For The Two Hundred And Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Harvard College

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thou whose bold flight would leave earth's vulgar crowds,
And like the eagle soar above the clouds,
Must feel the pang that fallen angels know
When the red lightning strikes thee from below!

A Panegyric Of The Dean In The Person Of A Lady In The North

© Jonathan Swift

Resolved my gratitude to show,
Thrice reverend Dean, for all I owe,
Too long I have my thanks delay'd;
Your favours left too long unpaid;

The Virtuoso: In Imitation of Spenser's Style And Stanza

© Mark Akenside

--- Videmus
Nugari solitos.
-Persius

A Preaching From A Spanish Ballad

© George Meredith

Ladies who in chains of wedlock
Chafe at an unequal yoke,
Not to nightingales give hearing;
Better this, the raven's croak.

In Memoriam A. H. H.

© Alfred Tennyson

Thou seemest human and divine,
The highest, holiest manhood, thou.
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

Chatterton's Will

Vous qui par ici pasez
Pur l'ame Guateroine Chatterton priez
Le cors di oi ici gist
L'ame receyve Thu Crist. MCCX.

Ode On The Istallation of the Duke of Devonshire

Hence a while, severer Muses;

Spare your slaves till drear October.

The Hesitating Veteran

When I was young and full of faith

And other fads that youngsters cherish

Vestigia Quinque Retrorsum

This is our golden year,--its golden day;
Its bridal memories soon must pass away;
Soon shall its dying music cease to ring,
And every year must loose some silver string,
Till the last trembling chords no longer thrill,--
Hands all at rest and hearts forever still.