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2nd Extract from 'Venus and Adonis'She looks upon his lips, and they are pale; / She takes him by the hand, and that is cold; / She whispers in his ears a heavy tale,
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Rupert Brooke : A SelectionTiare Tahiti / MAMUA, when our laughter ends, / And hearts and bodies, brown as white,
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Blaauberg BeachThrough the laden flights of pot-stewed gulls - / Deepening in red rosaries to poltroon, / Contaminated by an urgent wish,
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Aan InaDie stroom van verlange The stream of longing / Vloei na die see Flows to the sea / In die verste diepte To the furthest depth
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Christabel by S T Coleridge : Selected PassagesPART THE FIRST / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) / ’TIS the middle of night by the castle clock,
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Argent's colour..Argent's colour silver be / Like to the sun upon the sea / Viewed from a station on a mountain high
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O wert thou in the cauld blastRobert Burns (1759–1796). Poems and Songs. / The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. / O WERT thou in the cauld blast,
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Hark! Hark! the LarkHark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, / And Phoebus 'gins arise, / His steeds to water at those springs
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On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802ONCE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee; / And was the safeguard of the West: the worth / Of Venice did not fall below her birth,
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An Exhortation by Percy Bysshe ShelleyAn Exhortation / Chameleons feed on light and air: / Poets' food is love and fame:
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