English Poem

Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul

Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soulOf the wide world dreaming on things to come,Can yet the lease of…

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Sonnet 106: When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time

When in the chronicle of wasted timeI see descriptions of the fairest wights,And beauty making beautiful old rhymeIn praise of…

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Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees

Orpheus with his lute made trees,And the mountain tops that freeze,Bow themselves, when he did sing:To his music plants and…

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from Venus and Adonis

But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by,A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud,Adonis' trampling courser doth espy,And forth…

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Fairy Land v

FULL fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that…

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Fairy Land III

COME unto these yellow sands,And then take hands:Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd,--The wild waves whist,--Foot it featly here and…

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Fairy Land I

OVER hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire,I do wander everywhere,Swifter than the moone's sphere;And…

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Dirge

COME away, come away, death,And in sad cypres let me be laid;Fly away, fly away, breath;I am slain by a…

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Bridal Song

ROSES, their sharp spines being gone,Not royal in their smells alone,But in their hue;Maiden pinks, of odour faint,Daisies smell-less, yet…

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Aubade

HARK! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,And Phoebus 'gins arise,His steeds to water at those springsOn chaliced flowers that…

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