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Requiem · 1887
And ruined love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.
Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609
The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
On the Nature of Things · 55 BC
The Odyssey · 700 BC
The Odyssey · 700 BC
1808
1934
Spring on the Coast · 200 BC
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face!
Astrophel and Stella · 1591
Songs and Sonnets · 1631
1850
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Songs and Sonnets · 1631
The Harmony of the Muses · 1631
Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greennesse?
The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations · 1633
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.
The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations · 1633
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
An Essay on Criticism · 1711
Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
An Essay on Criticism · 1711