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Ulysses (Tennyson)

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole …

Alfred Tennyson
Uncertain lease — develops lustre

Uncertain lease — develops lustre
On Time
Uncertain Grasp, appreciation …
Uncle Bill

My Uncle Bill! My Uncle Bill!
How doth my heart with anguish thrill!
For he, our chief, our Robin Hood, …

Banjo Paterson
Under the Light, yet under,

Under the Light, yet under,
Under the Grass and the Dirt,
Under the Beetle's Cellar …
Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill

This is the place where they all were bred;
Some of the rafters are standing still;
Now they are scattered and lost and dead, …

Banjo Paterson
The Undertaking

I HAVE done one braver thing
⁠Than all the Worthies did;
And yet a braver thence doth spring, …

John Donne
Unfulfilled to Observation —

Unfulfilled to Observation —
Incomplete — to Eye —
But to Faith — a Revolution …
Unit, like Death, for Whom?

Unit, like Death, for Whom?
True, like the Tomb,
Who tells no secret …
Until death (Botta)

Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend,
To love me, though I die, thy whole life long,
And love no other till thy days shall end; …

Anne Lynch Botta
Until the Desert knows

Until the Desert knows
That Water grows
His Sands suffice …
Unto a broken heart

Unto a broken heart
No other one may go
Without the high prerogative …
Unto like Story — Trouble has enticed me —

Unto like Story — Trouble has enticed me —
How Kinsmen fell —
Brothers and Sister — who preferred the Glory — …
Unworthy of her Breast

Unworthy of her Breast
Though by that scathing test
What Soul survive? …
Up Life's Hill with my little Bundle

Up Life's Hill with my little Bundle
If I prove it steep —
If a Discouragement withhold me — …
Upon a Lilac Sea

Upon a Lilac Sea
To toss incessantly
His Plush Alarm …
Upon a Venerable Rival

Full thirty frosts since thou wert young
Have chill'd the wither'd grove,
Thou wretch! and hast thou liv'd so long, …

William Cowper
Upon Concluded Lives

Upon Concluded Lives
There's nothing cooler falls —
Than Life's sweet Calculations — …
Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird

Upon his Saddle sprung a Bird
And crossed a thousand Trees
Before a Fence without a Fare …
Upon the gallows hung a wretch,

Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law entitled him. …

Emily Dickinson
Valediction To His Book

I'll tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do
⁠To anger destiny, as she doth us;
⁠How I shall stay, though she eloign me thus, …

John Donne