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The Heroic Enthusiasts - Part The First =First Dialogue.=

© Giordano Bruno

TANS. The enthusiasms most suitable to be first brought forward and
considered are those that I now place before you in the order that seems
to me most fitting.

Book Seventh [Residence in London]

Returned from that excursion, soon I bade
Farewell for ever to the sheltered seats
Of gowned students, quitted hall and bower,
And every comfort of that privileged ground,
Well pleased to pitch a vagrant tent among
The unfenced regions of society.

The Muses Threnodie: Second Muse

© Henry Adamson

Then thus, quod I, good Gall, I pray thee show,
For cleerly all antiquities yee know:
What mean these skonses, and these hollow trenches,
Throughout these fallow fields and yonder inches?
And these great heaps of stones like piramids,
Doubtless all these ye knew, that so much reads;

The Nevers of Poetry

© Charles Harpur

Never heed whether a line strictly goes
By learned rule, if, brook-like, it warble as it flows,
Or if, in concord with the thought, it fills
Fast forward, like a torrent fast flooding from the hills.

"Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved"

© William Wordsworth

YES! thou art fair, yet be not moved
To scorn the declaration,
That sometimes I in thee have loved
My fancy's own creation.

Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind

© William Wordsworth

'WEAK is the will of Man, his judgment blind;
'Remembrance persecutes, and Hope betrays;
'Heavy is woe;--and joy, for human-kind,
'A mournful thing, so transient is the blaze!'

My Namesake

© John Greenleaf Whittier

You scarcely need my tardy thanks,
Who, self-rewarded, nurse and tend--
A green leaf on your own Green Banks--
The memory of your friend.

A Knocker

© Zbigniew Herbert

There are those who grow
gardens in their heads
paths lead from their hair
to sunny and white cities

The Snow-Drop

© Henry James Pye

Hail earliest of the opening flowers!

Fair Harbinger of vernal hours!

Elegy VI

© Henry James Pye

Now has bright Sol fulfill'd his circling course,

Again to Taurus roll'd his burning car,

The Plea Of The Midsummer Fairies

© Thomas Hood

I
'Twas in that mellow season of the year
When the hot sun singes the yellow leaves
Till they be gold,and with a broader sphere

Hyperion. Book II

© John Keats

Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wings

Hyperion slid into the rustled air,

The Minstrel ; Or, The Progress Of Genius - Book II.

© James Beattie

I.
Of chance or change O let not man complain,
Else shall he never never cease to wail:
For, from the imperial dome, to where the swain

When You Are Not Surprised

© Conrad Aiken

When you are not surprised, not surprised,

nor leap in imagination from sunlight into shadow

Belshazzar. A Sacred Drama

© Hannah More

Persons of the Drama :--
Belshazzar, King of Babylon.
Nitocris, the Queen-Mother.
Courtiers, Astrologers, Parasites.
Daniel, the Jewish Prophet.
Captive Jews, &c. &c.