to a friend No! those days are gone awayAnd their hours are old and gray,And their minutes buried allUnder the down-trodden pallOf the leaves of many years:Many times have winter’s…
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Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home:At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,Like to bubbles when rain pelteth;Then let winged Fancy wanderThrough the thought still spread beyond her:Open…
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:‘Tis not…
Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering;The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing. Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, So haggard and so woe-begone?The…
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?– To give maiden blushes To the white rose bushes? Or is it…
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:Its loviliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness; but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and a sleepFull of sweet dreams,…
“Under the flag Of each his faction, they to battle bring Their embryon atoms.” – Milton WELCOME joy, and welcome sorrow, Lethe’s weed and Hermes’ feather; Come to-day, and come…
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,And pardon that thy secrets should be sung Even into thine own soft-conched ear:Surely I dreamt to-day, or…
This pleasant tale is like a little copse:The honied lines so freshly interlace,To keep the reader in so sweet a place,So that he here and there full-hearted stops;And oftentimes he…
Full many a dreary hour have I past,My brain bewildered, and my mind o’ercastWith heaviness; in seasons when I’ve thoughtNo spherey strains by me could e’er be caughtFrom the blue…