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The Comedian As The Letter C

© Wallace Stevens

379 Trinket pasticcio, flaunting skyey sheets,
380 With Crispin as the tiptoe cozener?
381 No, no: veracious page on page, exact.

Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote Her Name

© Edmund Spenser

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washed it away:

Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters

© Edmund Spenser

Most happy letters, fram'd by skilful trade,

With which that happy name was first design'd:

Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life

© Edmund Spenser

Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day,

Didst make thy triumph over death and sin:

Jubilate Agno (excerpt)

© Christopher Smart

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry.

For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.

Astrophel and Stella

© Sir Philip Sidney

Doubt you to whom my Muse these notes entendeth,
Which now my breast, surcharg'd, to musick lendeth!
To you, to you, all song of praise is due,
Only in you my song begins and endeth.

Written among the Euganean Hills North Italy

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

MANY a green isle needs must be

In the deep wide sea of Misery,

The Recollection

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

NOW the last day of many days,

All beautiful and bright as thou,

Ozymandias of Egypt

© Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

LIFE of Life! thy lips enkindle
With their love the breath between them;
And thy smiles before they dwindle
Make the cold air fire: then screen them
In those locks where whoso gazes 5
Faints entangled in their mazes.