Love Poems – Page 2857
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Physics
(The Unconscious Poetizing on a Philosopher) / THERE is no force however great / Can stretch a cord however fine … -
The Collegian to His Bride
From Punch / Being a Mathematical Madrigal in the Simplest Form / CHARMER, on a given straight line, … -
The Lawyer’s Invocation to Spring
Whereas, on certain boughs and sprays / Now divers birds are heard to sing, / And sundry flowers their heads upraise, … -
The Cosmic Egg
Upon a rock yet uncreate, / Amid a chaos inchoate, / An uncreated being sate; … -
The Hen
Anonymous translation from the German / A FAMOUS hen ’s my story’s theme, / Which ne’er was known to tire … -
Ode—To the Roc
O Unhatched Bird, so high preferred, / As porter of the Pole, / Of beakless things, who have no wings, … -
Disaster
’t Was ever thus from childhood’s hour / My fondest hopes would not decay: / I never loved a tree or flower … -
Lines Written in an Album
[A farmer’s daughter, during the rage for albums, handed to the author an old account-book ruled for pounds, shillings, and pence, and requested a contribution.] / THIS WORLD ’s a scene as dark as Styx, £ s. d. / Where hope is scarce worth 2 6 … -
On the Brink
I Watched her as she stooped to pluck / A wild flower in her hair to twine; / And wished that it had been my luck … -
The V-a-s-e
From the maddening crowd they stand apart, / The maidens four and the Work of Art; / And none might tell from sight alone …
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