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The Suicide's Argument
Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no
No question was asked me--it could not be so !
If the life was the question, a thing sent to try
And to live on be YES; what can NO be ? to die.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no
No question was asked me--it could not be so !
If the life was the question, a thing sent to try
And to live on be YES; what can NO be ? to die.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Sundays Of Satin-legs Smith
Inamoratas, with an approbation,
Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination.
He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a cat
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Inamoratas, with an approbation,
Bestowed his title. Blessed his inclination.
He wakes, unwinds, elaborately: a cat
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Gwendolyn Brooks
An Essay On Man: Epistle I.
THE DESIGN.
Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon's expression) come home to men's business and bosoms, I thought it more satisfactory to begin with considering man in the abstract, his nature and his state; since, to prove any moral duty, to enforce any moral precept, or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any creature whatsoever, it is necessary first to know what condition and relation it is placed in, and what is the proper end and purpose of its being.
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Alexander Pope
THE DESIGN.
Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon's expression) come home to men's business and bosoms, I thought it more satisfactory to begin with considering man in the abstract, his nature and his state; since, to prove any moral duty, to enforce any moral precept, or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any creature whatsoever, it is necessary first to know what condition and relation it is placed in, and what is the proper end and purpose of its being.
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Alexander Pope
Middle-aged
â??Tis but a vague, invarious delight
As gold that rains about some buried king.
As the fine flakes,
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Ezra Pound
â??Tis but a vague, invarious delight
As gold that rains about some buried king.
As the fine flakes,
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Ezra Pound
Don Juan: Canto The Sixteenth
The antique Persians taught three useful things,
To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.
This was the mode of Cyrus, best of kings--
A mode adopted since by modern youth.
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George Gordon Byron
The antique Persians taught three useful things,
To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.
This was the mode of Cyrus, best of kings--
A mode adopted since by modern youth.
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George Gordon Byron
Grace Darling
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day
In the year of 1838, a steamer passed through the Fairway
Between the Farne Islands and the coast, on her passage northwards;
But the wind was against her, and the steamer laboured hard.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day
In the year of 1838, a steamer passed through the Fairway
Between the Farne Islands and the coast, on her passage northwards;
But the wind was against her, and the steamer laboured hard.
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William Topaz Mcgonagall
Could Hope Inspect Her Basis
1283
Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done-
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Emily Dickinson
1283
Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done-
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Emily Dickinson
Could Hope Inspect Her Basis
Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done -
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none -
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Emily Dickinson
Could Hope inspect her Basis
Her Craft were done -
Has a fictitious Charter
Or it has none -
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Emily Dickinson
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain'd,
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John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain'd,
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John Keats
A Precious'mouldering Pleasure
371
A precious-mouldering pleasure-'tis-
To meet an Antique Book-
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Emily Dickinson
371
A precious-mouldering pleasure-'tis-
To meet an Antique Book-
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Emily Dickinson
How Know It From A Summer's Day?
1364
How know it from a Summer's Day?
Its Fervors are as firm-
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Emily Dickinson
1364
How know it from a Summer's Day?
Its Fervors are as firm-
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Emily Dickinson
The Spirit Is The Conscious Ear
733
The Spirit is the Conscious Ear.
We actually Hear
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Emily Dickinson
733
The Spirit is the Conscious Ear.
We actually Hear
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Emily Dickinson
The Spirit Is The Conscious Ear
733
The Spirit is the Conscious Ear.
We actually Hear
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Emily Dickinson
733
The Spirit is the Conscious Ear.
We actually Hear
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Emily Dickinson
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain'd,
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John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain'd,
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John Keats
Bessie's Boil
Says I to my Missis: “Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, on your mind.”
Says she: “You are right, Sam, I've something. It ‘appens it's on me be'ind.
A Boil as ‘ud make Job jealous. It ‘urts me no end when I sit.”
Says I: “Go to ‘ospittel, Missis. They might ‘ave to coot it a bit.”
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Robert Service
Says I to my Missis: “Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, on your mind.”
Says she: “You are right, Sam, I've something. It ‘appens it's on me be'ind.
A Boil as ‘ud make Job jealous. It ‘urts me no end when I sit.”
Says I: “Go to ‘ospittel, Missis. They might ‘ave to coot it a bit.”
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Robert Service
The River Song
This boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are cut
magnolia,
Musicians with jewelled flutes and with pipes of gold
Fill full the sides in rows, and our wine
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Ezra Pound
This boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are cut
magnolia,
Musicians with jewelled flutes and with pipes of gold
Fill full the sides in rows, and our wine
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Ezra Pound
Fame Is A Fickle Food (1659)
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
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Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
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Emily Dickinson
Diagnosis
Cried Allen Forman: 'Doctor, pray
Compose my spirits' strife:
O what may be my chances, say,
Of living all my life?
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Ambrose Bierce
Cried Allen Forman: 'Doctor, pray
Compose my spirits' strife:
O what may be my chances, say,
Of living all my life?
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Ambrose Bierce
Sonnet: If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain'd,
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John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrain'd,
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John Keats
The Deacon And His Daughter
He saved his soul and saved his pork,
With old time preservation;
He did not hold with creosote,
Or new plans of salvation;
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
He saved his soul and saved his pork,
With old time preservation;
He did not hold with creosote,
Or new plans of salvation;
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Isabella Valancy Crawford
Pippa Passes: Part Iv: Night
Scene. Inside the Palace by the Duomo. Monsignor, dismissing his Attendants.
Monsignor
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Robert Browning
Scene. Inside the Palace by the Duomo. Monsignor, dismissing his Attendants.
Monsignor
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Robert Browning
Sordello: Book The Third
And the font took them: let our laurels lie!
Braid moonfern now with mystic trifoly
Because once more Goito gets, once more,
Sordello to itself! A dream is o'er,
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Robert Browning
And the font took them: let our laurels lie!
Braid moonfern now with mystic trifoly
Because once more Goito gets, once more,
Sordello to itself! A dream is o'er,
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Robert Browning
The Poet's Seat. An Idyll Of The Suburbs.
"Ille terrarum mihi prëter omnes
Angulus Ridet."
--Hor. ii. 6.
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Henry Austin Dobson
"Ille terrarum mihi prëter omnes
Angulus Ridet."
--Hor. ii. 6.
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Henry Austin Dobson
Marsupial Bill
1
IT was the time when geese despond,
And turkeys make their wills;
The time when Christians, to a man,
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James Brunton Stephens
1
IT was the time when geese despond,
And turkeys make their wills;
The time when Christians, to a man,
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James Brunton Stephens
The Empty Purse--a Sermon To Our Later Prodigal Son
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,
Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!
Quenched youth, and is that thy purse?
Even such limp slough as the snake has left
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George Meredith
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,
Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!
Quenched youth, and is that thy purse?
Even such limp slough as the snake has left
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George Meredith
Bessie's Boil
Says I to my Missis: "Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, on your mind."
Says she: "You are right, Sam, I've something. It 'appens it's on me be'ind.
A Boil as 'ud make Job jealous. It 'urts me no end when I sit."
Says I: "Go to 'ospittel, Missis. They might 'ave to coot it a bit."
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Robert William Service
Says I to my Missis: "Ba goom, lass! you've something I see, on your mind."
Says she: "You are right, Sam, I've something. It 'appens it's on me be'ind.
A Boil as 'ud make Job jealous. It 'urts me no end when I sit."
Says I: "Go to 'ospittel, Missis. They might 'ave to coot it a bit."
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Robert William Service
In A Library.
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The Borough. Letter Ix: Amusements
OF our Amusements ask you?--We amuse
Ourselves and friends with seaside walks and views,
Or take a morning ride, a novel, or the news;
Or, seeking nothing, glide about the street,
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George Crabbe
OF our Amusements ask you?--We amuse
Ourselves and friends with seaside walks and views,
Or take a morning ride, a novel, or the news;
Or, seeking nothing, glide about the street,
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George Crabbe
Understand That This Is A Dream
Real as a dream
What shall I do with this great opportunity to fly?
What is the interpretation of this planet, this moon?
if I can dream that I dream / and dream anything dreamable / can I dream
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Allen Ginsberg
Real as a dream
What shall I do with this great opportunity to fly?
What is the interpretation of this planet, this moon?
if I can dream that I dream / and dream anything dreamable / can I dream
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Allen Ginsberg
An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689
Sir,
As once a twelvemonth to the priest,
Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,
The Spanish king presents a jennet
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Matthew Prior
Sir,
As once a twelvemonth to the priest,
Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,
The Spanish king presents a jennet
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Matthew Prior
George Joslin On La Menken
Here, Coroner Merival, look at this picture!
Whom does it look like? Eyes too crystalline,
A head like Byron's, tender mouth, and neck,
Slender and white, a pathos as of smiles
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Edgar Lee Masters
Here, Coroner Merival, look at this picture!
Whom does it look like? Eyes too crystalline,
A head like Byron's, tender mouth, and neck,
Slender and white, a pathos as of smiles
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Edgar Lee Masters
Don Juan - Canto The Sixteenth
The antique Persians taught three useful things,
To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.
This was the mode of Cyrus, best of kings -
A mode adopted since by modern youth.
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George Gordon Byron
The antique Persians taught three useful things,
To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.
This was the mode of Cyrus, best of kings -
A mode adopted since by modern youth.
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George Gordon Byron
How Nature's Beauties Should Be Viewed
Should man, with microscopic eye,
View the details of Nature's plan,
Into each nook and corner pry,
And needlessly the hidden scan?
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Thomas Frederick Young
Should man, with microscopic eye,
View the details of Nature's plan,
Into each nook and corner pry,
And needlessly the hidden scan?
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Thomas Frederick Young
A Singular Exhibition At Somerset House
"Our Crummie is a dainty cow." - Scotch Song.
On that first Saturday in May,
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Thomas Hood
"Our Crummie is a dainty cow." - Scotch Song.
On that first Saturday in May,
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Thomas Hood