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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
“Rock of Ages”	Edward H. Rice		English	“Such hymns are never forgotten. They cling to us through our whole life. We carry them with us upon our journey. We sing them in the forest. The workman follows the plough with sacred songs. Children catch them, and singing only for the joy it gives them now, are yet laying up for all their...
“Sad is our youth, for it is ever going”	Aubrey Thomas de Vere		English	Sad is our youth, for it is ever going, Crumbling away beneath our very feet; Sad is our life, for onward it is flowing In current unperceived, because so fleet; Sad are our hopes, for they were sweet in sowing,— But tares, self-sown, have overtopped the...
“Said I not so?”	George Herbert	1613	English	Said I not so,—that I would sin no more? Witness, my God, I did; Yet I am run again upon the score: My faults cannot be hid. What shall I do?—make vows and break them still? ’T will be but labor lost; My good cannot prevail against...
“Shall I compare thee?”	William Shakespeare	1584	English	Sonnet Xviii. 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 the eye of heaven shines, And often is his...
“She came and went”	James Russell Lowell		English	As a twig trembles, which a bird Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent, So is my memory thrilled and stirred;— I only know she came and went. As clasps some lake, by gusts unriven, The blue dome’s measureless content, So my soul held that...
“She died in beauty”	Charles Doyne Sillery		English	She died in beauty,—like a rose Blown from its parent stem; She died in beauty,—like a pearl Dropped from some diadem. She died in beauty,—like a lay Along a moonlit lake; She died in beauty,—like the song Of birds amid the brake...
“She is not fair to outward view”	Hartley Coleridge	1816	English	She is not fair to outward view, As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: O, then I saw her eye was bright,— A well of love, a spring of light. But now her looks are coy and cold; To mine they ne’er...
“She walks in beauty”	Lord Byron		English	“Hebrew Melodies” SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies, And all that ’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes, Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. ...
“She was a phantom of delight”	William Wordsworth	1790	English	She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment’s ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight’s, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-...
“Sit down, sad soul”	Bryan Waller Procter		English	Sit down, sad soul, and count The moments flying; Come, tell the sweet amount That ’s lost by sighing! How many smiles?—a score? Then laugh, and count no more; For day is dying! Lie down, sad soul, and sleep, And no more...
“Smile and never heed me”	Charles Swain		English	Though, when other maids stand by, I may deign thee no reply, Turn not then away, and sigh,— Smile, and never heed me! If our love, indeed, be such As must thrill at every touch, Why should others learn as much?— Smile, and never...
“So sweet love seemed”	Robert Bridges	1864	English	So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change. But I can tell—let truth be told— That love will change in growing old; Though day by day...
“Softly woo away her breath”	Bryan Waller Procter		English	Softly woo away her breath, Gentle death! Let her leave thee with no strife, Tender, mournful, murmuring life! She hath seen her happy day,— She hath had her bud and blossom; Now she pales and shrinks away, Earth, into thy gentle...
“Spring, the sweet spring”	Thomas Nashe	1587	English	Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! The palm and may make country-houses gay, Lambs frisk and...
“Stone the woman, let the man go free”	Anonymous		English	Yes, stone the woman, let the man go free! Draw back your skirts, lest they perchance may touch Her garment as she passes; but to him Put forth a willing hand to clasp with his That led her to destruction and disgrace. Shut up from her the sacred ways of...
“Strong Son of God, immortal Love”	Alfred, Lord Tennyson		English	From “In Memoriam”: Introduction STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man...
“Sweet stream that winds”	William Cowper	1751	English	Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid,— Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world’s gay, busy throng; With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course; Graceful and useful all she...
“Sweetly breathing, vernal air”	Thomas Carew	1615	English	Sweetly breathing, vernal air, That with kind warmth doth repair Winter’s ruins; from whose breast All the gums and spice of the East Borrow their perfumes; whose eye Gilds the morn, and clears the sky. Whose dishevelled tresses shed Pearls...
“Take the world as it is”	Charles Swain		English	Take the world as it is!—there are good and bad in it, And good and bad will be from now to the end; And they, who expect to make saints in a minute, Are in danger of marring more hearts than they ’ll mend. If ye wish to be happy ne’er seek for the faults,...
“Take, O, take those lips away”	William Shakespeare	1584	English	TAKE, 1 O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, like break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, Seals of love, but sealed in vain. Hide, O, hide those hills of snow ...