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Romantics

Lines On Observing A Blossom On The First Of February, 1796 - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

{ Poem }

Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem
Unfoldest timidly, (for in strange sort
This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month
Hath borrowed Zephyr’s voice, and gazed upon thee
With blue voluptuous eye) alas poor flower!

Hölderlin’s shopping bag - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Poetry object

A delivery of dung - by Thomas Lux

{ Poem }

No piece of art is perfect. / All it has to do is stay around / for two hundred, or…

Keep your receipts, Mister Keats - by John Hegley

{ Poem }

John Keats, you suggested that a poem should come
out complete,
as certain and as surely as a leaf upon a tree,
but preferably,
not as slowly.

Lachin Y Gair (Dark Lochnagar) - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

{ Poem }

Away, ye gay landscapes, ye gardens of roses,
/ In you let the minions of luxury rove,
/ Restore me the rocks where the…

I wandered lonely as a Cloud… - by William Wordsworth

{ Poem }

I wandered lonely as a Cloud
/ That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills,
/ When all at once I saw a crowd
/ A…

She Walks in Beauty - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

{ Poem }

She walks in beauty, like the night
/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
/ And all that’s best of dark…

So, We’ll Go No More A-roving - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

{ Poem }

I
/ So, we’ll go no more a-roving
/ So late into the night,
/ Though the heart be still as loving,
/ …

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…

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;
/ …

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/ Part III
/
/ There passed a weary time. Each throat
/ Was parched, and glazed each eye.
/ A weary time! a weary…

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