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An Essay On Criticism

...nce!

Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,
There are as mad, abandon'd Criticks too.
The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read,
With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head,
With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears,
And always List'ning to Himself appears.
All Books he reads, and all he reads assails,
From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales.
With him, most Authors steal their Works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Name a new Play, and he's the Poet'...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander


Aurora Leigh (excerpts)

...at every shred of wool
To draw the new light closer, catch and cling
Less blindly. In my ears, my father's word
Hummed ignorantly, as the sea in shells,
`Love, love, my child.' She, black there with my grief,
Might feel my love -- she was his sister once, 
I clung to her. A moment, she seemed moved,
Kissed me with cold lips, suffered me to cling,
And drew me feebly through the hall into
The room she sate in.
There, with some strange spasm
Of pain and passion, she wrung loose...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Epistle To My Brother George

...ers paw, and prance,
Bestridden of gay knights, in gay apparel,
Who at each other tilt in playful quarrel,
And what we, ignorantly, sheet-lightning call,
Is the swift opening of their wide portal,
When the bright warder blows his trumpet clear,
Whose tones reach nought on earth but Poet's ear.
When these enchanted portals open wide,
And through the light the horsemen swiftly glide,
The Poet's eye can reach those golden halls,
And view the glory of their festivals:
Their ladie...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

First Anniversary

...adore: 
But Indians, whom they would convert, subdue; 
Nor teach, but traffic with, or burn the Jew. 

Unhappy princes, ignorantly bred, 
By malice some, by error more misled, 
If gracious heaven to my life give length, 
Leisure to time, and to my weaknes strength, 
Then shall I once with graver accents shake 
Your regal sloth, and your long slumbers wake: 
Like the shrill huntsman that prevents the east, 
Winding his horn to kings that chase the beast. 

Till then my muse sh...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Lara

...m disappear, 
If not the man on whom his menaced charge 
Had sate too deeply were he left at large? 
The general rumour ignorantly loud, 
The mystery dearest to the curious crowd; 
The seeming friendlessness of him who strove 
To win no confidence, and wake no love; 
The sweeping fierceness which his soul betray'd, 
The skill with which he wielded his keen blade; 
Where had his arm unwarlike caught that art? 
Where had that fierceness grown upon his heart? 
For it was not the...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)


Ripening

...st of having been.
And yet as we know the dead
we grow familiar with the world.
We, who were young and loved each other
ignorantly, now come to know
each other in love, married
by what we have done, as much
as by what we intend. Our hair
turns white with our ripening
as though to fly away in some
coming wind, bearing the seed
of what we know. It was bitter to learn
that we come to death as we come
to love, bitter to face
the just and solving welcome
that death prepares. But t...Read more of this...
by Berry, Wendell

The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C

...e adore:
But Indians whom they should convert, subdue;
Nor teach, but traffique with, or burn the Jew.
Unhappy Princes, ignorantly bred,
By Malice some, by Errour more misled;
If gracious Heaven to my Life give length,
Leisure to Times, and to my Weakness Strength,
Then shall I once with graver Accents shake
Your Regal sloth, and your long Slumbers wake:
Like the shrill Huntsman that prevents the East,
Winding his Horn to Kings that chase the Beast.
Till then my Muse shall ho...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

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