By William Blake 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 …
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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 …
Procession I – Hanging Day
By Wole Soyinka Hanging day.A hollow earthEchoes footsteps of the grave procession.Walls in sunspotsLean to shadow of the shortening morn. Behind an eyepatch lushly blue.The …
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
By William Shakespeare Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration …
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
By William Shakespeare When forty winters shall besiege thy browAnd dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,Will be …
Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
‘But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes / Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel / Making a famine where abundance lies / Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel’
My Heart Leaps Up
‘So was it when my life began / So is it now I am a man / So be it when I shall grow old / Or let me die!’
Evening Star
By Edgar Allan Poe ‘Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro’ the lightOf the brighter, cold moon,‘Mid planets her …