Category: European poems
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Chocolate
Jinhao Xie Your grandmother’s grave nestlesin the nest of mountains’ thick hair.You try to name every tree that lookslike your grandmother. A hurricanefound underneath your seat is your uncle’sreckless driving technique. He tries to killtime by outrunning patience. Your motherholds you down in the back seat,prevents you from flyingout the window. Too soon, she says,to […]
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Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
By Leigh Hunt We, the Fairies, blithe and antic, Of dimensions not gigantic, Though the moonshine mostly keep us, Oft in orchards frisk and peep us. Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen, be your apples. When to bed the world are bobbing, Then’s the time for orchard-robbing; Yet the fruit […]
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Voices of the Air
By Katherine Mansfield But then there comes that moment rareWhen, for no cause that I can find,The little voices of the airSound above all the sea and wind. The sea and wind do then obeyAnd sighing, sighing double notesOf double basses, content to playA droning chord for the little throats— The little throats that sing […]
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Ah! Sunflower
By William Blake Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the travellers journey is done. Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow: Arise from their graves and aspire, Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.
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Ode to the Nightingale
By John Keats 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 […]
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A Red Red Rose
By Robert Burns
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Love and Death
By Lord Alfred Tennyson
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All Things will Die
By Lord Alfred Tennyson
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He Confesses the Vanity of His Passion
By Francisco Petrarca
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Invictus
By William Ernest Henley
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Renaissance Poetry
The renaissance period has been recorded as a stepping point for the advancement of modern Literature. The renaissance period marked the period from the middle ages to modern period in European history. The renaissance lasted from the 15th to 16th century. The Renaissance age emerged with the discovery of ancient Greek writings especially the saying […]
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I find no Peace
By Sir Thomas Wyatt I find no peace, and all my war is done.I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise;And nought I have, and all the world I seize on.That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prisonAnd holdeth me not—yet can I scape […]
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From the Fairy Queen
By Edmund Spenser Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;Whose prayses having slept in silence long,Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areedsTo blazon broad emongst […]
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh is one of the most important poets in British history and has been established as one of the most significant political poets during the renaissance period. He was born in Hayes Barton, Devonshire to a protestant family by Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. He was involved in several military expeditions from his […]
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A Farewell to False Love
By Sir Walter Raleigh 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 reason. A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers,Mother of sighs, and murderer […]
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