Don Juan, Canto the Eighth George Gordon, Lord Byron LXI Of all men, saving Sylla, the man-slayer, Who passes for in life and death most lucky, Of the great names which in our faces stare, The General Boon, back-woodsman of Kentucky, Was happiest amongst mortals anywhere; For killing nothing ...
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Poems, by a Cherokee Indian, with an Account of the Assassination of His Father, by John Ridge (1868) Read the full text at archive.org: https://archive.org/stream/poems00ridg#page/n5/mode/2up
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America, You Are Better Off America, you are better off Than our ancient continent. You have no tumbledown castles And no basalt deposits. Your inner lives are not disturbed by Useless memories and vain strife. Use your time with confidence! And if your children write poetry, May a ...
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(Translated by Kamal Abu-Deeb) A Grave for New York 1 So far, the Earth has been drawn as a pear – I mean a breast – But, nothing between a breast and a grave stone except a trick of engineering: NEW YORK A civilization with four legs; each direction is murder ...
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Genesis 1 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw... Read More
Donne, John. Britain. 1572 – 1631 One of the ‘Metaphysical Poets’, Donne employed a style rich in wordplay and elaborate metaphor. He is celebrated for his poetic exploration of both religious and erotic themes. In “Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed,” Donne’s desiring speaker compares his ...
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Theocritus. Sicily. 3rd-century B.C. In his Idylls, the poems for which he is best known, Theocritus idealized country life, writing of shepherds who competed in singing contests and wooed both nymphs and humans. The poetic conventions established here pioneered Western conceptions of a ...
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Virgil. Roman Republic. 1st-century B.C. Virgil is considered the greatest of Roman poets. In his Eclogues, he complicated the poetic conventions established by Theocritus by introducing political allegories to pastoral poetry. Virgil’s descriptions of Arcadia, which transform this actual Greek ...
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