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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Walter Alexander Raleigh

1923

★ 0.8

Poem · Epic poem

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well exposed, as by his manners.

1596

★ 1.0

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Requiem · 1887

★ 1.0

Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light.

Eugenio Montale

1925

★ 1.0

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

1936

★ 1.0

O you who hear within these scattered verses The sound of sighs with which I fed my heart In my first errant youthful days when I In part was not the man I am today.

1352

★ 1.1

For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.

1557

★ 1.1

And ruined love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 1.1

By education most have been misled.

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts · 1687

★ 1.1

Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state And all the fawning flatterers hate: Value yourselves, and men despise You must be proud if you'll be wise.

To the Ladies · 1703

★ 1.1

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

She Walks in Beauty · 1815

★ 1.1

Sun-girt city, thou hast been Ocean's child, and then his queen; Now is come a darker day, And thou soon must be his prey.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1819

★ 1.1

Poem · Magazine

I met a Lady in the Meads Full beautiful, a faery's child Her hair was long, her foot was light And her eyes were wild—

1820

★ 1.1

London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1822

★ 1.1

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems · 1832

★ 1.1

Poem · Magazine

Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1840

★ 1.1

The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.

1931

★ 1.1

How vast a memory lovers have!

8

★ 1.2

The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain.

Charles d'Orleans

1440

★ 1.2

But times do change and move continually.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens · 1599

★ 1.2

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