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Uncollected and Rejected Poems
2023-12-06AMBITION One day an obscure youth, a wanderer, Known but to few, lay musing with himself About the chances of his future life. In that youth's hea...
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Crazy Jane and the Bishop
2023-12-06Bring me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call down curses on his head Because of my dear Jack ...
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Crazy Jane Reproved
2023-12-06I care not what the sailors say: All those dreadful thunder-stones, All that storm that blots the day Can but show that Heaven yawns; Great Europa pla...
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Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment
2023-12-06‘Love is all Unsatisfied That cannot take the whole Body and soul‘; And that is what Jane said. ‘Take the sour If you take me, I can...
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The Aeneid
2023-12-06Each eye was fixed, each lip compressed, When thus began the heroic guest: 'Too cruel, lady, is the pain You bid me thus revive again; How lofty I...
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Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman
2023-12-06I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone, For love is but a skein unwound B...
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Crazy Jane on God
2023-12-06That lover of a night Came when he would, Went in the dawning light Whether I would or no; Men come, men go; All things remain in God. Banners choke t...
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Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
2023-12-06I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. ‘Those breasts are flat and fallen now, Those veins must soon be dry; Live in a heavenly ma...
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Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers
2023-12-06I found that ivory image there Dancing with her chosen youth, But when he wound her coal-black hair As though to strangle her, no scream Or bodily mov...
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To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
2023-12-06Glory and Loveliness have pass‘d away; For if we wander out in early morn, No wreathed incense do we see upborne Into the east to meet the smili...