January 2011
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John Keats: On The Grasshopper and Cricket →
john-keats:
The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper’s - he takes the lead In summer luxury, - he has never done With his delights; for when tired out…
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John Keats: The Eve of St. Agnes →
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I St. Agnes’ Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told His rosary, and while his frosted breath, Like pious…
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“They lay calm-breathing on the bedded grass;
Their arms embraced, and...”
– Ode to Psyche, John Keats (via hellosusie)
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“I weep for Adonais-he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not...”
– by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1803-1822)
From “Adonais”, about the death of fellow romantic
poet and friend John Keates
(via marcelgomes)
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Un Bar aux Folies: Robert Burns - O Wert Thou in... →
barauxfolies:
Burns Original: O, Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
1. O, wert thou in the cauld blast On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee, Or did Misfortune’s bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To…
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Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
circusfolk:
The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle - Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight...
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