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Aurora Leigh: Book Niinth

© Elizabeth Barrett Browning


An active kind of curse. I stood there cursed,
Confounded. I had seized and caught the sense
Of the letter, with its twenty stinging snakes,
In a moment's sweep of eyesight, and I stood
Dazed.-"Ah! not married."

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Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric

© Adam Lindsay Gordon

Orion: But an understanding tacit.
You have prospered much since the day we met;
You were then a landless knight;
You now have honour and wealth, and yet
I never can serve you right.

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Farmer Downs Changes His Opinion Of Nature

© Isabella Valancy Crawford

"No," said old Farmer Downs to me,
  "I ain't the facts denyin',
That all young folks in love must be,
  As birds must be a-flyin'.
Don't go agin sech facts, because
I'm one as re-specks Natur's laws.

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Angelo

© William Watson

 Then Angelo bethought him of his vow;
And stepping forward stood before the twain;
And from his girdle plucked a dagger forth;
And spake no word, but pierced his own heart through.

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Within and Without: Part I: A Dramatic Poem

© George MacDonald

Robert.
Head in your hands as usual! You will fret
Your life out, sitting moping in the dark.
Come, it is supper-time.

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The Human Tragedy ACT IV

© Alfred Austin

Personages:
  Gilbert-
  Miriam-
  Olympia-
  Godfrid.

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Departmental

© Robert Frost

An ant on the tablecloth

Ran into a dormant moth

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Metamorphoses: Book The Second

© Ovid

 The End of the Second Book.

 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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Aeneid

© Virgil

THE ARGUMENT.- Turnus takes advantage of AEneas's absence,
fires some of his ships (which are transformed into sea nymphs),
and assaults his camp. The Trojans, reduc'd to the last extremities,
send Nisus and Euryalus to recall AEneas; which furnishes the
poet with that admirable episode of their friendship, generosity, and
the conclusion of their adventures.

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The Vote (excerpt)

© Abraham Cowley

.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 

This only grant me :  that my means may lie

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Thou Shalt Not Kill

© Kenneth Rexroth


Harry who didn’t care at all?
Hart who went back to the sea?
  Timor mortis conturbat me.

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Minden House

© William Barnes

'Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl

  A vield o' haÿ a day in June,

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Jump-To-Glory Jane

© George Meredith

A revelation came on Jane,
The widow of a labouring swain:
And first her body trembled sharp,
Then all the woman was a harp
With winds along the strings; she heard,
Though there was neither tone nor word.

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When Father Played Baseball

© Edgar Albert Guest

The smell of arnica is strong,

  And mother's time is spent

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Tale II

© George Crabbe

frame.
Yes! old and grieved, and trembling with decay,
Was Allen landing in his native bay,
Willing his breathless form should blend with

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On Dreaming

© John Newton

When slumber seals our weary eyes,
The busy fancy wakeful keeps;
The scenes which then before us rise,
Prove something in us never sleeps.

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A Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Nation

© Thomas Traherne

From A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God

O Lord, the children of my people are Thy peculiar treasures,

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter X - The Pope

© Robert Browning

“Then Stephen, Pope and seventh of the name,
“Cried out, in synod as he sat in state,
“While choler quivered on his brow and beard,
“‘Come into court, Formosus, thou lost wretch,
“‘That claimedst to be late the Pope as I!’

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Horace, Epist. I, VII Imitation Of Horace To Lord Oxford

© Jonathan Swift

Harley, the nation's great support,
Returning home one day from court,
His mind with public cares possest,
All Europe's business in his breast,

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The Borough. Letter XIII: The Alms-House And Trustees

© George Crabbe

feel.
  Three seats were vacant while Sir Denys reign'd,
And three such favourites their admission gain'd;
These let us view, still more to understand
The moral feelings of Sir Denys Brand.