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If you are fortunate enough to read French, (or had it drummed into you as a kid), then it gives an ...
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And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! He took his vorpal sword in hand: And stood awhile in thought. And burbled as it came! The vorpal ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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“Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink”: this famous line comes from Samuel Coleridge’s longest and most celebrated poem, which tells of the horrifying events experienced by a grizzle ...
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Prufrock and Other Observations
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Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo. And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: To lead you to an overwhelming question ... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us ...
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L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
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...'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! ...In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore: So buxom, blithe, and debonair. And Laughter holding both his sides. In u ...
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Friends interlinked us. Life is roomy yet, and the odds unbounded." So self-communed I. Wonder of women." "Soon a more seemly. Intermissive aim at the thing sufficeth." Thus I . . . But lo ...
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And saw three islands in a bay. Was three long mountains and a wood. Almost, I thought, from where I stand. My breath came short, and scarce at all. And look my fill into the sky. The sky was not so v ...
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Here is John Milton's follow-up to his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, which dramatized the story of man's fall. The theological drama of Paradise Regained centers on Satan's temptations of Jesus Chri ...
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except War. Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. This is in no sense consolatory. They may be to the nex ...
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Seem lost in Fortune's winnowing. World-refuge that will never come. Than sail forever in the dark. And if God be God, He is just. With creeds that make a fiend of Him. The common creed of common ...
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'Twas The Night Before Christmas
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Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. "Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall! Now, dash away ...
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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
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Was waiting in the study. Left by that careless slavey. To shiver and to sneeze: On which I said "Come, come, my man! That's a most inconsiderate plan. Less noise there, if you please!" "Out there upo ...
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THE COURT OF LOVE. herself, named Rosial, to whom he does suit and service of love. introduced to Rosial in the midst of a confession of her love. English ...
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The delicate rhyme of a sonnet, the sharp disruptions of modernist poems, the enigmatic phrases of the ancient bards: these make up the essence of an ages-old form of art. But who are the people whose ...
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Please note that this title is in Latin....
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The Tales and Novels, Complete
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Chateau-Thierry, and his family held a respectable position there. retirement, from which a taste for independence afterwards withdrew him. Malherbe, heard by accident, awoke in him the muse which sle ...
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THE RAVEN. As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Only this, and nothing more." And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. ...
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Extended Copyright Information ... Collection copyright 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All rights reserved. ... Individual poems copyright by individual authors. All rights reserved....
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