Danielle11195

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"Lines"

by Danielle11195

I did not have exactly a way of life but the bee amazed me and the wind’s plenty was almost believable. Hearing a magpie laugh through a ghost town in Wyoming, saying Hello in Cambridge, eating cheese by the frothy Rhine, leaning fr...

1 Like | 2 comments | 1499 views | Poetry | July 9, 2017

"The Tables Turned"

by Danielle11195

Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books; Or surely you'll grow double: Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks; Why all this toil and trouble? The sun above the mountain's head, A freshening lustre mellow Through all the long green fi...

2 Likes | 0 comment | 1044 views | Poetry | July 9, 2017

"Cavalry Crossing a Ford"

by Danielle11195

A LINE in long array where they wind betwixt green islands, They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink, Behold the b...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1048 views | Poetry | July 9, 2017

"When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer"

by Danielle11195

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1072 views | Poetry | July 9, 2017

"A Noiseless Patient Spider"

by Danielle11195

A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirel...

1 Like | 0 comment | 1093 views | Poetry | July 9, 2017

"Song of Myself (1892 version)"

by Danielle11195

1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue,...

0 Likes | 1 comment | 1067 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Crossing the Bar"

by Danielle11195

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from ou...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 663 views | Narrative Nonfiction | July 8, 2017

"The Charge of the Light Brigade"

by Danielle11195

I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. II “For...

1 Like | 0 comment | 1355 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Ulysses"

by Danielle11195

It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from trave...

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"Amoretti"

by Danielle11195

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 made my pains his prey. "Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay, A mortal thing so to i...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 651 views | Autobiography | July 8, 2017

"Astrophil and Stella"

by Danielle11195

Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,— Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,— I sought fit...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1057 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Song"

by Danielle11195

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear? Wherefore feed and clothe and save From the cradle to the grave Those ungrateful drones who would Dr...

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"Ode to the West Wind"

by Danielle11195

I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1375 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Ozymandias"

by Danielle11195

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,...

1 Like | 1 comment | 1114 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun"

by Danielle11195

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 wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no su...

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"Sonnet 129: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame"

by Danielle11195

Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight, Past reason hunted;...

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"Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds"

by Danielle11195

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1370 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayest in me behold"

by Danielle11195

That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after...

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"Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments"

by Danielle11195

Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root o...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1071 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes"

by Danielle11195

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1100 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"

by Danielle11195

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 a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gol...

1 Like | 0 comment | 1120 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time"

by Danielle11195

When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from h...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1043 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"A Birthday"

by Danielle11195

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That pad...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1116 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"After Death"

by Danielle11195

The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept And strewn with rushes, rosemary and may Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay, Where through the lattice ivy-shadows crept. He leaned above me, thinking that I slept And could not hear...

0 Likes | 1 comment | 1126 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"January, 1795"

by Danielle11195

Pavement slipp’ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving. Lofty mansions, warm and spacious; Courtiers cringing and voracious; Misers scarce the wretched h...

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"Richard Cory"

by Danielle11195

Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1088 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk"

by Danielle11195

Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, At love’s request to try them, If she a mistress could compose To please love’s fancy out of those. Her eyes he would should...

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"Farewell, false love"

by Danielle11195

Farewell, false love, the oracle of lies, A mortal foe and enemy to rest, An envious boy, from whom all cares arise, A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed, A way of error, a temple full of treason, In all effects contrary unto re...

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"Annabel Lee"

by Danielle11195

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child...

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"The Raven"

by Danielle11195

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chambe...

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"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"

by Danielle11195

When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My t...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1096 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"To His Coy Mistress"

by Danielle11195

Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day. Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1105 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

by Danielle11195

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rive...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 988 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"The Little Shroud"

by Danielle11195

She put him on a snow-white shroud, A chaplet on his head; And gathered early primroses To scatter o'er the dead. She laid him in his little grave -- 'Twas hard to lay him there, When spring was putting forth its flowers, And everything wa...

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"Revenge"

by Danielle11195

Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreathed hair, And gaze upon her smile; Seem as you drank the very air Her breath perfumed the while: And wake for her the gifted line, That wild and witching lay, And swear your heart is as a shrine, That onl...

1 Like | 0 comment | 1100 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"To Autumn"

by Danielle11195

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And...

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"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

by Danielle11195

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape...

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"Ode to a Nightingale"

by Danielle11195

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,...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1095 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"To Sleep"

by Danielle11195

O soft embalmer of the still midnight, Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, Enshaded in forgetfulness divine: O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close In midst o...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1095 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017

"La Belle Dame sans Merci"

by Danielle11195

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel’s granar...

0 Likes | 0 comment | 1032 views | Poetry | July 8, 2017