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19th century poems

Langsyne, When Life was Bonnie - by Alexander Anderson

{ Poem }

Langsyne, when life was bonnie,
/ An’ a’ the skies were blue,
/ When ilka thocht took blossom,
/ …

Jenny Wi’ the Airn Teeth - by Alexander Anderson

{ Poem }

What a plague is this o’ mine,
/ Winna steek his e’e,
/ Though I hap him ow’r the…

Songs of Travel, X - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

I know not how it is with you –
/ I love the first and…

Jabberwocky - by Lewis Carroll

{ Poem }

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
/ Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
/ All mimsy were the borogoves,
/ And the…

‘My brain swims empty and light’ - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/ VII
/
/ My brain swims empty and light
/ Like a nut on a sea of oil;
/ And an atmosphere of quiet…

Poets to Come - by Walt Whitman

{ Poem }

I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

Ode on a Grecian Urn - by John Keats

{ Poem }

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
/ Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,
/ Sylvan historian, who canst thus express…

The Windhover - by Gerard Manley Hopkins

{ Poem }

To Christ Our Lord
/
/ I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-
/ dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in…

Parting - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

My life closed twice before its close;
/ It yet remains to see
/ If Immortality unveil
/ …

The Sick Rose - by William Blake

{ Poem }

O Rose, thou art sick!
/ The invisible worm
/ That flies in the night,
/ In the howling storm,
/
/ Has found out…

Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) - by Arthur Rimbaud

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/ Sweeter than the flesh of sour apples to children, the green water penetrated my pinewood hull and washed me…

On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - by John Keats

{ Poem }

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
/ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
/ …

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