- Sonnet Xii: On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour
Give me a golden pen, and let me lean
On heaped-up flowers, in regions clear, and far;
Bring me a tablet whiter than a star,
Or hand of hymning angel, when 'tis seen
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- What The Thrush Said. Lines From A Letter To John Hamilton Reynolds
O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind,
Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist
And the black elm tops 'mong the freezing stars,
To thee the spring will be a harvest-time.
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- Sonnet: Written On A Blank Page In Shakespeare's Poems, Facing 'a Lover's Complaint'
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
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- The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale - Unfinished.
I.
In midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool,
There stood, or hover'd, tremulous in the air,
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- Spenserian Stanza: Written At The Close Of Canto Ii, Book V, Of "the Faerie Queene"
In after-time, a sage of mickle lore
Yclep'd Typographus, the Giant took,
And did refit his limbs as heretofore,
And made him read in many a learned book,
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