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• Come down, O Maid

  Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:
  What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang),
  In height and cold, the splendour of the hills? …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• O that 'twere possible

  O that 'twere possible
  After long grief and pain
  To find the arms of my true love …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Misconceptions

  This is a spray the Bird clung to,
  Making it blossom with pleasure,
  Ere the high tree-top she sprung to, …

  Robert Browning

• Marvel of Marvels

  Marvel of marvels, if I myself shall behold
  With mine own eyes my King in His city of gold;
  Where the least of lambs is spotless white in the fold, …

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

• Aloof

  The irresponsive silence of the land,
  The irresponsive sounding of the sea,
  Speak both one message of one sense to me:— …

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

• Rest

  O earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;
  Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth;
  Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth …

  Christina Georgina Rossetti

• The Voice

  Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
  Saying that now you are not as you were
  When you had changed from the one who was all to me, …

  Thomas Hardy

• The Raven

  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,—
  While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, …

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Darest Thou Now O Soul

  Darest thou now, O soul,
  Walk out with me toward the unknown region,
  Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow? …

  Walt Whitman

• Time and Eternity

  Too late
  delayed till she had ceased to know,
  Delayed till in its vest of snow …

  Emily Dickinson

• The Wayfarer

  Perceiving the pathway to truth,
  Was struck with astonishment.
  It was thickly grown with weeds. …

  Stephen Crane

• The Piper

  Piping down the valleys wild,
  Piping songs of pleasant glee,
  On a cloud I saw a child, …

  William Blake

• The Song of the Old Mother

  I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow.
  And then I must scrub, and bake, and sweep, …

  William Butler Yeats

• “When in disgrace”

  When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
  I all alone beweep my outcast state,
  And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries, …

  William Shakespeare

• Kissing Her Hair

  Kissing her hair, I sat against her feet:
  Wove and unwove it,—wound, and found it sweet:
  Made fast therewith her hands, drew down her eyes, …

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• Sonnets from the PortugueseXXXIX. Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace

  Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace
  To look through and behind this mask of me,
  (Against which, years have beat thus blanchingly …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• The Nevermore

  Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
  I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell;
  Unto thine ear I hold the dead-sea shell …

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner

  Cyriack, this three years’ day, these eyes, though clear,
  To outward view, of blemish or of spot,
  Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot: …

  John Milton

• “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun”

  FEAR no more the heat o’ the sun,
  Nor the furious winter’s rages;
  Thou thy worldly task hast done, …

  William Shakespeare

• Sympathy

  'Tis a little thing
  To give a cup of water; yet its draught
  Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, …

  Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

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