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To My Dear and Loving Husband
2023-12-06if ever two were onethen surely we. If ever man were loved by wife， then thee； If ever wife was happy in a man， Compare with me，ye women，if you can. I...
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Farewell， dear babe， my heart's too much content， Farewell sweet babe， the pleasure of mine eye， Farewell fair flower that for a space was lent， T...
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When the Assault Was Intended to the City
2023-12-06CAPTAIN or Colonel or Knight in Arms Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize If deed of honour did thee ever please Guard them and him withi...
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On the Late Massacre in Piemont
2023-12-06VENGE O Lord！ Thy slaughter'd saints whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold； Even them who kept Thy truth so pure of old When ...
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Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
2023-12-06THIS is the month and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born Our great redemption from...
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Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
2023-12-06IT was the Winter wilde While the Heav'n-born-childe All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies； Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim W...
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"One word is too often profaned"
2023-12-06ONE word is too often profaned For me to profane it One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope is too like despair For pru...
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Written among the Euganean Hills North Italy
2023-12-06MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery Or the mariner worn and wan Never thus could voyage on Day and night and night and day ...
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Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples
2023-12-06THE sun is warm the sky is clear The waves are dancing fast and bright Blue isles and snowy mountains wear The purple noon's transparent might： Th...
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On first looking into Chapman's Homer
2023-12-06MUCH have I travell'd in the realms of gold And many goodly states and kingdoms seen； Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty...