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1st Extract from 'Venus and Adonis'“Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled / Since sweating Lust on earth usurped his name, / Under whose simple semblance he hath fed
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Nov 14, 2015
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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Nov 14, 2015
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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Apr 5, 2012
An Exhortation by Percy Bysshe ShelleyAn Exhortation / Chameleons feed on light and air: / Poets' food is love and fame:
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Nov 13, 2015
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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Apr 21, 2012
Blaauberg BeachThrough the laden flights of pot-stewed gulls - / Deepening in red rosaries to poltroon, / Contaminated by an urgent wish,
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Apr 7, 2012
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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Nov 19, 2015
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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Nov 14, 2015
Of EileenMy soul, wandering across the world, / Found one of whom it dreamt / In a faraway corner of the earth,
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Nov 14, 2015
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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Nov 17, 2015
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