“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1874-1963)
“The Road Not Taken”
by
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it...
Annabell Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Annabell Lee
by
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden...
How Do I Love Thee, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
How Do I Love Thee
by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806-1861)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the...
Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet XVIII
by
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot...
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (1795-1821)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
by
John Keats
(1795-1821)
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness!
Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy...
If by Rudyard Kipling
by
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting...
Walt Whitman / Leaves of Grass/Book XVII
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass/Book XVII
With Antecedents
1
With antecedents,
With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am,
With Egypt,...