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To English Connoisseurs

To English Connoisseurs
You must agree that Rubens was a Fool
And yet you make him master of Your School …

William Blake
To fight aloud, is very brave —

To fight aloud is very brave,
But gallanter, I know,
Who charge within the bosom, …

Emily Dickinson
To flee from memory

To flee from memory
Had we the Wings
Many would fly …
To forgive Enemies H does pretend

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To forgive Enemies H . does pretend
Who never in his Life forgave a friend

William Blake
To F—— (I mock thee not)

To F——
I mock thee not tho I by thee am Mocked
Thou callst me Madman but I call thee Blockhead

William Blake
To F—— (You call me Mad tis Folly to do so)

To F——
You call me Mad tis Folly to do so
To seek to turn a Madman to a Foe …

William Blake
To George Peabody

No Eastern tale, no annals of the past,
Of Greece or Rome, deeds such as thine relate,
Deeds kings and emperors might emulate, …

Anne Lynch Botta
To hang our head — ostensibly —

To hang our head — ostensibly —
And subsequent, to find
That such was not the posture …

Emily Dickinson
To H—— (Thy Friendship oft has made my heart to ake)

To H
Thy Friendship oft has made my heart to ake
Do be my Enemy for Friendships sake

William Blake
To John Hayes, Esq.

THAT Varius huffs, and fights it out to-day,
Who ran last week so cowardly away,
In Codrus may surprise the little skill, …

Henry Fielding
To Julia Amanda

Fair Julia Amanda, now since it is peace,
Methinks your hostilities also should cease;
The shafts from your eyes, and the snares of your smile, …

Ann Eliza Bleecker
To Juliette's twins

Dear Catherine, and David too,
How very sweet it was of you
To telegraph that you were here, …

Anne Lynch Botta
To Lamartine

A poet led me once, in chains of flowers,
A pilgrimage beneath the Orient skies;
And there I dreamed I walked in Eden's bowers, …

Anne Lynch Botta
To learn the Transport by the Pain

To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst — suspecting …

Emily Dickinson
To lose one's faith — surpass

To lose one's faith — surpass
The loss of an Estate —
Because Estates can be …

Emily Dickinson
To lose thee — sweeter than to gain

To lose thee — sweeter than to gain
All other hearts I knew.
'Tis true the drought is destitute, …

Emily Dickinson
To love thee Year by Year —

To love thee Year by Year —
May less appear
Than sacrifice, and cease — …

Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery. …

Emily Dickinson
To Mary (Cowper)

THE twentieth year is well-nigh past,
Since first our sky was overcast;
Ah would that this might be the last! …

William Cowper
To mend each tattered Faith

To mend each tattered Faith
There is a needle fair
Though no appearance indicate — …