The Hundred Best English PoemsThe Hundred Best English Poems is a compilation of classic poems by various authors. Excerpt: "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 had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease." |
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... Children dear, let us away. This way, this way. Call her once before you go. Call once yet. In a voice that she will know: "Margaret! Margaret!" Children's voices should be dear (Call once more) to a mother's ear: Children's voices ...
... Children dear, let us away. This way, this way. Call her once before you go. Call once yet. In a voice that she will know: "Margaret! Margaret!" Children's voices should be dear (Call once more) to a mother's ear: Children's voices ...
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... Children dear, was it yesterday? Children dear, was it yesterday (Call yet once) that she went away? Once she sate with you and me, On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea, And the youngest sate on her knee. She comb'd its bright ...
... Children dear, was it yesterday? Children dear, was it yesterday (Call yet once) that she went away? Once she sate with you and me, On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea, And the youngest sate on her knee. She comb'd its bright ...
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... Children dear, was it yesterday? Children dear, were we long alone? "The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan. Long prayers," I said, "in the world they say. Come," I said, and we rose through the surf in the bay. We went up the beach ...
... Children dear, was it yesterday? Children dear, were we long alone? "The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan. Long prayers," I said, "in the world they say. Come," I said, and we rose through the surf in the bay. We went up the beach ...
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... child with its toy. For the priest, and the bell, and the holy well. For the wheel where I spun, And the blessed ... children. Come children, come down. The hoarse wind blows colder; Lights shine in the town. She will start from her ...
... child with its toy. For the priest, and the bell, and the holy well. For the wheel where I spun, And the blessed ... children. Come children, come down. The hoarse wind blows colder; Lights shine in the town. She will start from her ...
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... children, at midnight, When soft the winds blow; When clear falls the moonlight; When spring-tides are low: When sweet airs come seaward From heaths starr'd with broom; And high rocks throw mildly On the blanch'd sands a gloom: Up the ...
... children, at midnight, When soft the winds blow; When clear falls the moonlight; When spring-tides are low: When sweet airs come seaward From heaths starr'd with broom; And high rocks throw mildly On the blanch'd sands a gloom: Up the ...
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ANNA LĘTITIA BARBAULD | |
LORD BYRON | |
THOMAS CAMPBELL | |
WILLIAM COWPER | |
THOMAS GRAY | |
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY | |
BEN JONSON | |
CHARLES LAMB | |
LADY NAIRNE | |
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