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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Queen Mab Book 2

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 3 2 If solitude hath ever led thy steps To the wild Ocean's echoing shore, And thou hast lingered there, Until the sun's broad orb Seemed resting on the burnished…

A. E. Housman: Introduction

Introduction The method of the poems in A Shropshire Lad illustrates better than any theory how poetry may assume the attire of reality, and yet in speech of the simplest, become in spirit…

Writing Well: Picture This: Description

Picture This: DescriptionWriting WellPicture This: DescriptionHelp Is on the Way!Make a Deposit in the Idea BankTake the PlungeColor My WorldMusic to the EyesTools of the TradeAn Affair to Remember…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Merlin I

Merlin IThy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, peremptory, clear. No jingling serenader's art, Nor tinkle of piano…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Mary

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Witch of AtlasTo Mary (On Her Objecting to the Following Poem, Upon the Score of Its Containing No Human Interest). How, my dear Mary,—are you critic-bitten…

Brewer's: Lavinia and Palemon

A free poetical version of Ruth and Boaz, by Thomson in his Autumn. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LavoltLavinia A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cenci Scene 1.3

by Percy Bysshe Shelley SCENE 1.2: Act 2 SCENE 1.3: A MAGNIFICENT HALL IN THE CENCI PALACE. A BANQUET. ENTER CENCI, LUCRETIA, BEATRICE, ORSINO, CAMILLO, NOBLES. CENCI: Welcome, my…