Song, Written at Sea,
in the First Dutch War (1665), the night before an Engagement
by Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset 1638-1706)
To all you ladies now on land,
We men at sea indite,
And first would have you understand
How hard it is to write;
The Muses now and Neptune too,
We must implore to write [...]
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Written in her French Psalter
by Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
No crooked leg, no bleared eye,
No part deformed out of kind,
Nor yet so ugly half can be
As is the inward suspicious mind.
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The Face
by Thomas Wade (1805-1875)
The
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Evening
by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
Evening! as slow thy placid shades descend,
Veiling with gentlest hush the landscape still,
The lonely battlement, and farthest hill
And wood; I think of those who have no friend;
Who now perhaps, by melancholy led,
From the broad blaze of day, where pleasure [...]
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Sonnet
by Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,
Ascend to heaven in honour of my love.
Were I as high as heaven above the plain,
And you, my Love, [...]
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Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!
Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:
I saw thee every day; and all the while
Thy Form was sleeping on a glassy sea.
So pure the sky, so quiet [...]
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A Summer Night
by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
In the deserted, moon-blanch
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