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Sonnet LXXVII. To The Insect Of The Gossamer

© Charlotte Turner Smith

SMALL, viewless aeronaut, that by the line
Of Gossamer suspended, in mid air
Float'st on a sun beam--Living atom, where
Ends thy breeze-guided voyage;--with what design,

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The Scrutinie

© Richard Lovelace

Why should you sweare I am forsworn,
 Since thine I vow’d to be?
Lady it is already Morn,
 And ’twas last night I swore to thee
That fond impossibility.

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My Generation Reading the Newspapers

© Kenneth Patchen

We must be slow and delicate; return

the policeman's stare with some esteem, 

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A True Maid

© Matthew Prior

No, no; for my virginity,
When I lose that, says Rose, I'll die:
Behind the elms last night, cried Dick,
Rose, were you not extremely sick?

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Crossing the Bar

© Alfred Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
 And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
 When I put out to sea,

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I Was Made Erect and Lone

© Henry David Thoreau

I was made erect and lone,

And within me is the bone;

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The Sorcerer: Act I

© William Schwenck Gilbert

 For to-day young Alexis-young Alexis Pointdextre
 Is betrothed to Aline-to Aline Sangazure,
 And that pride of his sex is-of his sex is to be next her
 At the feast on the green-on the green, oh, be sure!

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O-Jazz-O War Memoir: Jazz, Don’t Listen To It At Your Own Risk

© Bob Kaufman

In the beginning, in the wet

Warm dark place,

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Absence, The Noble Truce

© Fulke Greville

ABSENCE, the noble truce

Of Cupid's war,

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The Test

© Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hung my verses in the wind,

Time and tide their faults may find.

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The Summer Girl

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Summer girl

In peek-a-boos

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This Moment, Yearning And Thoughtful

© Walt Whitman

THIS moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone,

It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and

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Sonnet 1: Dost see how unregarded now

© Sir John Suckling

Dost see how unregarded now


 That piece of beauty passes?

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The Rose

© Isabella Valancy Crawford

Or, being hard, perchance his finger-tips
  Careless might touch the satin of its cup,
And he should feel a dead babe's budding lips
  To his lips lifted up;

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I Am the President of Regulation

© Jerome Rothenberg

I am the Giant Goliath,

I digest goat cheese.

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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - part 06

© Torquato Tasso

LXXXI

"Ah! be it not pardie declared in France,

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Jerusalem ["And did those feet in ancient time"]

© William Blake

And did those feet in ancient time

Walk upon Englands mountains green:

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On Mr. G. Herbert's Book

© Richard Crashaw

Know you fair, on what you look;

Divinest love lies in this book,

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A Workman to the Gods

© Edwin Markham

Once Phidias stood, with hammer in his hand,

Carving Minerva from the breathing stone, 

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Loved a little, Worked a little…

© Faiz Ahmed Faiz


Ku’ch Ishaq Ki’ya Ku’ch Kaam Ki’ya.

Who Log Bohat Khush Qismat Th’ay,