She Walks in Beauty di Lord Byron She walks in beauty, like the nigh Of cloudless climes and starry ski And all that’s best of dark and br Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light 7 23
A Drinking Song di W. B. Yeats Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, 2 9
The Song of Wandering Aengus di W. B. Yeats I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the w 3 6
59 a little East of Jordan (145) di Emily Dickinson A little East of Jordan, Evangelists record, A Gymnast and an Angel Did wrestle long and hard— Till morning touching mountain— 1
Stanzas for Music di Lord Byron There be none of Beauty’s daughte With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me: When, as if its sound were causing
If– di Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all Are losing theirs and blaming it o If you can trust yourself when all But make allowance for their doubt If you can wait and not be tired b 2 11
The Bell Buoy di Rudyard Kipling They christened my brother of old— And a saintly name he bears— They gave him his place to hold At the head of the belfry—stairs, Where the minster—towers stand
The Benefactors di Rudyard Kipling Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press
The City of Sleep di Rudyard Kipling Over the edge of the purple down, Where the single lamplight gleams, Know ye the road to the Merciful That is hard by the Sea of Dreams Where the poor may lay their wrong
Danny Deever di Rudyard Kipling ‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?' ‘To turn you out, to turn you out, ‘What makes you look so white, so ‘I’m dreadin’ what I’ve got to wa …
Gethsemane di Rudyard Kipling The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. We used to pass—we used to pass
Gunga Din di Rudyard Kipling You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ’er An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water,
Come Away Come Away Death di William Shakespeare Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with 2
The Lady of Shalott (1832 version) di Lord Alfred Tennyson On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the And thro’ the field the road runs To many—tower’d Camelot; 1
The Lady of Shalott (1842 version) di Lord Alfred Tennyson On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the And thro’ the field the road runs To many—tower’d Camelot; 1 2
Break, Break, Break di Lord Alfred Tennyson Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman’s boy, 3
Crossing the Bar di Lord Alfred Tennyson Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems as 1
Idylls of the King: Song from the Marriage of Geraint di Lord Alfred Tennyson Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, an Turn thy wild wheel thro’ sunshine Thy wheel and thee we neither love Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel wit With that wild wheel we go not up
Late, Late, so Late di Lord Alfred Tennyson Late, late, so late! and dark the Late, late, so late! but we can en Too late, too late! ye cannot ente No light had we: for that we do re And learning this, the bridegroom
Mariana di Lord Alfred Tennyson With blackest moss the flower-plot Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the kno That held the pear to the gable-wa The broken sheds look’d sad and st 1
Mariana in the South di Lord Alfred Tennyson With one black shadow at its feet, The house thro’ all the level shin Close—latticed to the brooding hea And silent in its dusty vines: A faint—blue ridge upon the right,
A Serenade at the Villa di Robert Browning That was I, you heard last night, When there rose no moon at all, Nor, to pierce the strained and ti Tent of heaven, a planet small: Life was dead and so was light.
A Toccata of Galuppi's di Robert Browning Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is v I can hardly misconceive you; it w But although I take your meaning,
Abt Vogler di Robert Browning Would that the structure brave, th Bidding my organ obey, calling its Claiming each slave of the sound, Armies of angels that soar, legion
Among the Rocks di Robert Browning Oh, good gigantic smile o’ the bro This autumn morning! How he sets To bask i’ the sun, and thrusts ou For the ripple to run over in its Listening the while, where on the
Count Gismond—Aix in Provence di Robert Browning Christ God who savest man, save m Of men Count Gismond who saved me Count Gauthier, when he chose his Chose time and place and company To suit it; when he struck at leng
Maud; A Monodrama (from Part I) di Lord Alfred Tennyson Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flow Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone; And the woodbine spices are wafted
Northern Farmer: New Style di Lord Alfred Tennyson Dosn’t thou ‘ear my ’erse’s legs, Proputty, proputty, proputty—that’ Proputty, proputty, proputty—Sam, Theer’s moor sense i’ one o’ 'is l Woä— …
Northern Farmer: Old Style di Lord Alfred Tennyson Wheer 'asta beän saw long and meä Noorse? thoort nowt o’ a noorse: w Says that I moänt 'a naw moor aäl Git ma my aäle, fur I beänt a—gaw Doctors, they …
You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease di Lord Alfred Tennyson You ask me, why, tho’ ill at ease, Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas. It is the land that freemen till,
To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Manuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death di Lord Alfred Tennyson Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion’s lofty temples robed in fir Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars, and filial faith, and Dido’s Landscape—lover, lord of language
To J. S. di Lord Alfred Tennyson The wind, that beats the mountain, More softly round the open wold, And gently comes the world to thos That are cast in gentle mould. And me this knowledge bolder made,
The Princess: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls di Lord Alfred Tennyson The splendour falls on castle wall And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the l And the wild cataract leaps in glo Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild ec
The Princess: Sweet and Low di Lord Alfred Tennyson Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go,
The Princess: Ask me no more di Lord Alfred Tennyson Ask me no more: the moon may draw The cloud may stoop from heaven an With fold to fold, of mountain or But O too fond, when have I answe Ask me no more.
The Princess: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead di Lord Alfred Tennyson Home they brought her warrior dead She nor swoon’d nor utter’d cry: All her maidens, watching, said, “She must weep or she will die.” Then they praised him, soft and lo 1