A Poison Tree by William Blake ? I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with […]
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EPITAPH ON A HARE by William Cowper
EPITAPH ON A HARE by William Cowper Here lies, whom hound did ne’er pursue, Nor swifter greyhound follow, Whose foot ne’er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard huntsman’s halloo; Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, Who, nursed with tender care, And to domestic bounds confined, Was still a wild Jack hare. Though duly from my […]
Upon A Spider Catching A Fly by Edward Taylor
Upon A Spider Catching A Fly by Edward Taylor (1642-1729) Thou sorrow, venom Elfe: Is this thy play, To spin a web out of thyselfe To Catch a Fly? For Why? I saw a pettish wasp Fall foule therein: Whom yet thy Whorle pins did not clasp Lest he should fling His sting. But as […]
THE GIFT by Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) THE GIFT by Oliver Goldsmith TO IRIS, IN BOW STREET, CONVENT GARDEN SAY, cruel IRIS, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty, What annual offering shall I make, Expressive of my duty? My heart, a victim to thine eyes, Should I at once deliver, Say, would the angry fair one prize The gift, who […]
Ode to Pity by Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Ode to Pity by Jane Austen 1 Ever musing I delight to tread The Paths of honour and the Myrtle Grove Whilst the pale Moon her beams doth shed On disappointed Love. While Philomel on airy hawthorn Bush Sings sweet and Melancholy, And the thrush Converses with the Dove. 2 Gently brawling […]
The Progress of Poetry by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
THANATOPSIS by William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
The Time I’ve Lost In Wooing by Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
To Autumn by John Keats
John Keats (1795-1821)
Solitude: An Ode–Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
On Virtue– Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753. She was the first African American to have works published in the United States.