TENURE POEMS

Sonnet 061: Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open

Is it thy will thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
.....

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 61: Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open

Is it thy will thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
.....

William Shakespeare

James Lee's Wife

I. James Lee's Wife Speaks at the Window

I.
Ah, Love, but a day
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Robert Browning

The Woful Tale Of Mr. Peters

I should like, good friends, to mention the disaster which befell
Mr. William Perry Peters, of the town of Muscatel,
Whose fate is full of meaning, if correctly understood
Admonition to the haughty, consolation to the good.
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Ambrose Bierce

The Penal Days.

Air--The Wheelwright.


I.
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Thomas Osborne Davis

Elegy On Newstead Abbey

'It is the voice of years that are gone!
they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIAN


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George Gordon Byron

Uncertain Lease'develops Lustre

857

Uncertain lease-develops lustre
On Time
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Emily Dickinson

The Dream Called Life

From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca

A dream it was in which I found myself.
And you that hail me now, then hailed me king,
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Edward Fitzgerald

Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses

Nothing is given which is not taken.

Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired,
freely, truly and fully.
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Delmore Schwartz

Muse

In my youth's years, she loved me, I am sure.
The flute of seven pipes she gave in my tenure
And harked to me with smile -- without speed,
Along the ringing holes of the reed,
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Uncertain Lease-develops Lustre

857

Uncertain leaseâ??develops lustre
On Time
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Emily Dickinson

Elegy On Newstead Abbey

“It is the voice of years, that are gone! they roll before me, with
all their deeds.”

Ossian.
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George Gordon Lord Byron

Paracelsus: Part V: Paracelsus Attains

Scene. Salzburg; a cell in the Hospital of St. Sebastian. 1541.
Festus, Paracelsus.


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Robert Browning

To The Memory Of Henry Kirke White, By A Lady

If worth, if genius, to the world are dear,
To Henry's shade devote no common tear;
His worth on no precarious tenure hung.
From genuine piety his virtues sprung;
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Henry Kirk White

The Sonnets Lxi - Is It Thy Will, Thy Image Should Keep Open

Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
.....

William Shakespeare

Collection Of Passages Translated In The Prose Writings.

[From Of Reformation in England, 1641.]


Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause
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John Milton

The Civil Wars (excerpts)

XXXVI
The swift approach and unexpected speed
The king had made upon this new-rais'd force,
In the unconfirmed troops, much fear did breed,
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Samuel Daniel

Dorothy Q.

GRANDMOTHER's mother: her age, I guess,
Thirteen summers, or something less;
Girlish bust, but womanly air;
Smooth, square forehead with uprolled hair;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Eclogue The Third

Wouldst thou kenn Nature in her better parte?
Goe, serche the logges and bordels of the hynde ;
Gyfe theye have anie, itte ys roughe-made arte,
Inne hem you see the blakied forme of kynde .
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Thomas Chatterton

Hope Against Hope

The structure was laid to burn anarchy,
Enshrined codes to give hope to the hopeless,
And give home to the homeless.

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Emmanuel Goto

Indigo

There is a song in the air
A drop in the void
A whisper among whispers
& echoes creep out of crevices
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Delumozie Sandra Uche

Alooter

Solidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
We shall always fight for our right
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Olorode Samuel

Elegy On Newstead Abbey. [1]

"It is the voice of years, that are gone! they roll before me, with all their deeds."

Ossian.

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George Gordon Byron

Dorothy Q. - A Family Portrait

I cannot tell the story of Dorothy Q. more simply in prose than I have told it in verse, but I can add something to it. Dorothy was the daughter of Judge Edmund Quincy, and the niece of Josiah Quincy, junior, the young patriot and orator who died just before the American Revolution, of which he was one of the most eloquent and effective promoters. The son of the latter, Josiah Quincy, the first mayor of Boston bearing that name, lived to a great age, one of the most useful and honored citizens of his time. The canvas of the painting was so much decayed that it had to be replaced by a new one, in doing which the rapier thrust was of course filled up.

Grandmother's mother: her age, I guess,
Thirteen summers, or something less;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes