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From Comus
2023-12-06THE Star that bids the Shepherd fold Now the top of Heav'n doth hold And the gilded Car of Day His glowing Axle doth allay In the steep Atlantick ...
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Noah
2023-12-06WHEN old Noah stared across the floods Sky and water melted into one Looking-glass of shifting tides and sun. Mountain-tops were few: the ship was fou...
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David Cleek
2023-12-06I CANNOT think that Death will press his claim To snuff you out or put you off your game: You‘ll still contrive to play your steady round Though...
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Haunted
2023-12-06EVENING was in the wood louring with storm. A time of drought had sucked the weedy pool And baked the channels; birds had done with song. Thirst was a...
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Villon
2023-12-06THEY threw me from the gates: my matted hair Was dank with dungeon wetness; my spent frame O‘erlaid with marish agues: everywhere Tortured by le...
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Goblin Revel
2023-12-06IN gold and grey with fleering looks of sin I watch them come; by two by three by four Advancing slow with loutings they begin Their woven measure wid...
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Night-Piece
2023-12-06YE hooded witches baleful shapes that moan Quench your fantastic lanterns and be still; For now the moon through heaven sails alone Shedding her peace...
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A Wanderer
2023-12-06WHEN Watkin shifts the burden of his cares And all that irked him in his bound employ Once more become a vagrom-hearted boy He moves to roundelays and...
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October
2023-12-06ACROSS the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist The droopi...
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The Heritage
2023-12-06CRY out on Time that he may take away Your cold philosophies that give no hint Of spirit-quickened flesh; fall down and pray That Death come never wit...