Poems begining by S

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Sonnet XXII: With Fools and Children

© Michael Drayton

To FollyWith fools and children, good discretion bears;
Then, honest people, bear with Love and me,
Nor older yet, nor wiser made by years,
Amongst the rest of fools and children be;

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Sonnet LXIII: Truce, Gentle Love

© Michael Drayton

Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave;

Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun;

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Sonnet IX: As Other Men

© Michael Drayton

As other men, so I myself do muse
Why in this sort I wrest invention so,
And why these giddy metaphors I use,
Leaving the path the greater part do go.

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Sonnet XI: You Not Alone

© Michael Drayton

You not alone, when you are still alone,
O God, from you that I could private be.
Since you one were, I never since was one;
Since you in me, my self since out of me,

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Sonnet XXI: A Witless Galant

© Michael Drayton

A witless gallant a young wench that woo'd
(Yet his dull spirit her not one jot could move),
Entreated me, as e'er I wish'd his good,
To write him but one sonnet to his love;

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Sonnet LXI: Since There's No Help

© Michael Drayton

Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part,
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.

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Sonnet XVI: Mongst All the Creatures

© Michael Drayton

An Allusion to the Phoenix'Mongst all the creatures in this spacious round
Of the birds' kind, the Phoenix is alone,
Which best by you of living things is known;
None like to that, none like to you is found.

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Sonnet XIX: You Cannot Love

© Michael Drayton

To HumorYou cannot love, my pretty heart, and why?
There was a time you told me that you would;
But now again you will the same deny,
If it might please you, would to God you could.

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Surprised By Joy

© William Wordsworth

Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind

I turned to share the transport-Oh! with whom

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Stanley Meets Mutesa

© David Rubadiri


Such a time of it they had;

The heat of the day

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Sonnet XLIX: How Long

© Samuel Daniel

How long shall I in mine affliction mourn,

A burden to myself, distress'd in mind?

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Self And Soul

© Madison Julius Cawein

It came to me in my sleep,
  And I rose from my sleep and went
  Out in the night to weep,
  Over the bristling bent.
  With my soul, it seemed, I stood
  Alone in a moaning wood.

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Senec. Traged. Ex Thyeste Chor.2

© Andrew Marvell

Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor.2.
Stet quicunque volet potens
Aulae culmine lubrico &c.

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Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook

© Henry Kendall

The First Attempt to Reach the Shore

Where is the painter who shall paint for you,

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Soldier's Dream

© Wilfred Owen

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears;
And caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts;
And buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts;
And rusted every bayonet with His tears.

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Sordello: Book the Fourth

© Robert Browning

Meantime Ferrara lay in rueful case;

The lady-city, for whose sole embrace

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." by William Shakespeare">Sonnet 108: "What's in the brain, that ink may character,..."

© William Shakespeare

What's in the brain, that ink may character,

Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?

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Song-Prayer: After King David

© George MacDonald

I shall be satisfied

With the seeing of thy face.

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Sonnet 51: "Thus can my love excuse the slow offence..."

© William Shakespeare

Thus can my love excuse the slow offence,

 Of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed,

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Sabbaths, W.I.

© Derek Walcott

those volcanoes like ashen roses, or the incurable sore
of poverty, around whose puckered mouth thin boys are
selling yellow sulphur stone