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 […]
By William Blake from Songs of Innocence Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made theeGave thee life & bid thee feed.By the stream & o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing […]
By Joseph Addison (First, in obedience to thy country’s rites, Worship the immortal Gods. — Pythagoras) I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday; and think, if keeping holy […]
By Joseph Addison —Hinc tihi copiaManabit ad plenum benignoRuris honorum opulenta cornu — Horace(Here Plenty’s liberal horn shall pourOf fruits for thee a copious show’r,Rich honours of the quiet plain.) Having […]
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By Thomas Gray The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and […]
In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal By Samuel Johnson ———Quis ineptæTam patiens Urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se?Juv. Tho’ Grief and Fondness in my Breast rebel,When injur’d Thales bids the […]
By Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.We would sit down, and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love’s day.Thou by […]
By John Donne I wonder, by my troth, what thou and IDid, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?Or snorted we in the […]
