Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Otho The Great - Act V
SCENE I.A part of the Forest.Enter CONRAD and AURANTHE.Auranthe. Go no further; not a step more; thou artA master-plague in the midst of miseries.Go..
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Otho The Great - Act Iv
SCENE I.AURANTHE'S Apartment.AURANTHE and CONRAD discovered.Conrad. Well, well, I know what ugly jeopardyWe are cag'd in; you need not pester..
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Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds
Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven,--the domainOf Cynthia,--the wide palace of the sun,--The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,--The bosomer of clouds..
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Sonnet Xiii. Addressed To Haydon
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome alley, and in..
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Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford
I.The Gothic looks solemn,The plain Doric columnSupports an old Bishop and Crosier;The mouldering arch,Shaded o'er by a larchStands next door to..
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Sonnet Xiv. Addressed To The Same (Haydon)
Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,Catches his freshness from..
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Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'D
If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd,And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweetFetter'd, in spite of pained loveliness;Let us find out, if we..
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Sonnet. Written Before Re-Read King Lear
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute!Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away!Leave melodizing on this wintry day,Shut up thine olden pages, and be..
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Otho The Great - Act Iii
SCENE I.The Country.Enter ALBERT.Albert. O that the earth were empty, as when CainHad no perplexity to hide his head!Or that the sword of some brave..
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Sonnet Xiv. Addressed To The Same (Haydon)
Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,Who on Helvellyn's summit, wide awake,Catches his freshness from..
© John Keats
Sonnet Xiii. Addressed To Haydon
High-mindedness, a jealousy for good,A loving-kindness for the great man's fame,Dwells here and there with people of no name,In noisome alley, and in..
© John Keats
Ode. Written On The Blank Page Before Beaumont And Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid Of The Inn'
Bards of Passion and of Mirth,Ye have left your souls on earth!Have ye souls in heaven too,Doubled-lived in regions new?Yes, and those of heaven..
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On Hearing The Bag-Pipe And Seeing
Of late two dainties were before me plac'dSweet, holy, pure, sacred and innocent,From the ninth sphere to me benignly sentThat Gods might know my own..
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Song. Written On A Blank Page In Beaumont And Fletcher's Works
1.Spirit here that reignest!Spirit here that painest!Spirit here that burneth!Spirit here that mourneth!Spirit! I bowMy forehead low,Enshaded with..
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Sonnet To John Hamilton Reynolds
O that a week could be an age, and weFelt parting and warm meeting every week,Then one poor year a thousand years would be,The flush of welcome ever..
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Written In The Cottage Where Burns Was Born
This mortal body of a thousand daysNow fills, O Burns, a space in thine own room,Where thou didst dream alone on budded bays,Happy and thoughtless of..
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To George Felton Mathew
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song;Nor can remembrance, Mathew! bring to viewA fate more pleasing, a..
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Sonnet. A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paulo And Francesca
As Hermes once took to his feathers light,When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,So on a Delphic reed, my idle sprightSo played, so charmed..
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The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment
Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;Twice holy was the Sabbath-bellThat call'd the folk to evening prayer;The city streets were clean and fairFrom wholesome..
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Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis
Read me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loudUpon the top of Nevis, blind in mist!I look into the chasms, and a shroudVapourous doth hide them, -- just..
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Sonnet Ix. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and thereAmong the bushes half leafless, and dry;The stars look very cold about the sky,And I have many miles..
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Specimen Of An Induction To A Poem
Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;For large white plumes are dancing in mine eye.Not like the formal crest of latter days:But bending in a thousand..
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hat The Thrush Said. Lines From A Letter To John Hamilton Reynolds
O thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind,Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mistAnd the black elm tops 'mong the freezing stars,To thee..
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Translated From A Sonnet Of Ronsard
Nature withheld Cassandra in the skiesFor more adornment a full thousand years;She took their cream of Beauty's fairest dyes,And shap'd and tinted..
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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
Good Kosciusko, thy great name aloneIs a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;It comes upon us like the glorious pealingOf the wide spheres -- an..
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