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aspect excerpts Jeffrey Powell	Tasked to endure the inescapable crash of the waves Stricken by the power of silent majesty Floundering and fumbling Challenged by the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aurora Leigh (excerpts) Elizabeth Barrett Browning	[Book 1] I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate features, -- paler, near as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Christ's Triumph after Death (excerpts) Giles Fletcher The Younger	I But now the second Morning, from her bow'r, Began to glister in her beams, and now The roses of the day began to flow'r In th' eastern...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Comus (excerpts) John Milton	SONG1- Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen - Within thy airy shell - By slow Meander's margent green, - And in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cooper's Hill (excerpts) Sir John Denham	... My eye, descending from the hill, surveys Where Thames amongst the wanton valleys strays; Thames, the most lov'd of all the Ocean's sons ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Endimion and Phoebe (excerpts) Michael Drayton	In Ionia whence sprang old poets' fame, From whom that sea did first derive her name, The blessed bed whereon the Muses lay, Beauty of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Endymion (excerpts) John Keats	From BOOK...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Étude Réaliste (excerpts) Algernon Charles Swinburne	A baby's hands, like rosebuds furled Whence yet no leaf expands, Ope if you touch, though close upcurled, A baby's hands. Then, fast as...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Genji and Murasaki (From Excerpts of The Tale of Genji) Shatana Brown	Once upon a time in Medieval Japan, was a man named Genji Monogatari so beautiful, so shining, so radiant a prince, had the beauty of a woman, yet...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hudibras, Part I (excerpts) Samuel Butler	THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth, The manner how he sallied forth; His arms and equipage are shown; His horse's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Noah's Flood (excerpts) Michael Drayton	Eternal and all-working God, which wast Before the world, whose frame by Thee was cast, And beautified with beamful lamps above, By thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy (excerpts) Michael Drayton	... But let us leave Queen Mab a while, Through many a gate, o'er many a stile, That now had gotten by this wile, Her dear Pigwiggen...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Queen Mab: Part VI (excerpts) Percy Bysshe Shelley	"Throughout these infinite orbs of mingling light, Of which yon earth is one, is wide diffus'd A Spirit of activity and life, That knows no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Samson Agonistes (excerpts) John Milton	[Samson's Opening Speech] A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Aeneid (excerpts) Gavin Douglas	-0- Laude, honor, prasingis, thankis infynite -0- To the, and thi dulce ornate fresch endite, -0- Mast reverend Virgill, of Latyne poetis...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Beggar's Opera (excerpts) John Gay	Air I.An old woman clothed in gray, &c.1- Through all the employments of life - Each neighbour abuses his brother; - Whore and rogue they...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Book of Urizen (excerpts) William Blake	Lo, a shadow of horror is risen In Eternity! Unknown, unprolific, Self-clos'd, all-repelling: what demon Hath form'd this abominable...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Civil Wars (excerpts) Samuel Daniel	XXXVI The swift approach and unexpected speed The king had made upon this new-rais'd force, In the unconfirmed troops, much fear did...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV (excerpts) Edmund Spenser	CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge him to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Hind and the Panther: Part I (excerpts) John Dryden	A milk-white Hind, immortal and unchang'd, Fed on the lawns, and in the forest rang'd; Without unspotted, innocent within, She fear'd no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (excerpts) James Beattie	THE FIRST BOOK...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts) William Cowper	......	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book II, The Time-Piece (excerpts) William Cowper	......	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts) William Cowper	Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts) William Cowper	'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)