12 Poets: William Shakespeare, John Donne, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, A.E. Housman, William Butler Yeats, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, T.S. EliotGlenn H. Leggett Poets who represent at least loosely the major periods of English poetry starting with Shakespeare - Elizabethan, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Early Romantic, Late Romantic, Victorian, Late Victorian and Modern. |
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... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our ... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike ...
... fool might once himself alone expose , Now one in verse makes many more in prose . ' Tis with our judgments as our ... fools . In search of wit these lose their common sense , And then turn Critics in their own defence : Each burns alike ...
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... fool by fits is fair and wise ; And even the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , Vice or Virtue , Self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a several goal ; But HEAVEN'S great view ...
... fool by fits is fair and wise ; And even the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , Vice or Virtue , Self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a several goal ; But HEAVEN'S great view ...
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... fool , And needs no Rod but Ripley with a Rule . See ! sportive fate , to punish awkward pride , Bids Bubo build ... Fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take , And of one beauty many blunders make ; Load some vain Church ...
... fool , And needs no Rod but Ripley with a Rule . See ! sportive fate , to punish awkward pride , Bids Bubo build ... Fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take , And of one beauty many blunders make ; Load some vain Church ...
Contents
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 15641616 | 1 |
Songs from the Plays 2 2 2 3 3 + 450 | 4 |
FULL FATHOM FIVE THE TEMPEST | 5 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. HOUSMAN Agnes beauty Belinda birds blood born breast breath bright child DARK TOWER dead death Donne door doth dream earth Edwin Arlington Robinson Eliot EMILY DICKINSON eyes face fair fall fate fear Flammonde flowers fool gone grace Greek underworld hair hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Housman Johannes Agricola JOHN DONNE JOHN KEATS Keats King laugh leaves light live LOCK look love's lovers Macavity mind moon morning never night nymph o'er once pain passion play poems poet poetry Porphyro praise ROBERT FROST rose round sigh silence sing sleep smile soft song soul spirit stars stood sweet Sylphs T. S. ELIOT tell Thalestris thee thine things thou art thought tomb trees turn WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind woods Yeats youth ΙΟ