Mary Shelley, daughter of literary icons William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, led a life of adventure and tragedy. At 18, she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, joining a circle […]
By Charles Lamb Sera tamen respexit Libertas. VIRGIL. A Clerk I was in London gay. O’KEEFE. If peradventure, Reader, it has been thy lot to waste the golden years of […]
BY JOHN KEATS Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the […]
BY JOHN KEATS 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 […]
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!Bird thou never wert,That from Heaven, or near it,Pourest thy full heartIn profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higherFrom the […]
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY IO wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves deadAre driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, […]
BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.So twice five miles of fertile […]
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By William Wordsworth Five years have past; five summers, with the lengthOf five long winters! and again I hearThese waters, rolling from their mountain-springsWith a soft inland murmur.—Once againDo I […]
By William Blake from Songs of Experience Tyger Tyger. burning bright,In the forests of the night:What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the […]
