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 […]
By William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be […]
By William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short […]
By Edmund Spenser One day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, and […]
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I WAS STILL A thief when I met Arun and though I was only fifteen I was an experienced and fairly successful hand.Arun was watching the wrestlers when I approached him. […]
by Charles Lamb CHILDREN love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle or grandame, whom they never saw. […]
