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Title	Poet	Year Written	Collection	Body
The Task (Cowper)/Book III ─ The Garden			English	As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Entangled, winds now this way and now that His devious course uncertain, seeking home; Or, having long in miry ways been foil'd, And sore discomfited, from slough to slough ...
The Task (Cowper)/Book IV ─ The Winter Evening			English	Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright; — He comes, the herald of a noisy world, ...
The Task (Cowper)/Book V ─ The Winter Morning Walk			English	'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the driving wind, More ardent as the disk emerges more, Resemble most some city in a blaze, Seen through...
The Task (Cowper)/Book VI ─ The Winter Walk at Noon			English	There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And, as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleas'd With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave: Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. ...
The Taxi	Amy Lowell	1915	Love	When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. Streets coming fast, One after the other, Wedge you away from me, And the lamps of the city prick my eyes...
The Tay Bridge Disaster				Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. 'Twas about...
The Tears of the Poplars	Edith Matilda Thomas		English	Hath not the dark stream closed above thy head, With envy of thy light, thou shining one? Hast thou not, murmuring, made thy dreamless bed Where blooms the asphodel, far from all sun? But thou—thou dost obtain oblivious ease, While here we rock and moan—...
The Telltale	Elizabeth Akers Allen	1852	English	Once, on a golden afternoon, With radiant faces and hearts in tune, Two fond lovers in dreaming mood Threaded a rural solitude. Wholly happy, they only knew That the earth was bright and the sky was blue, That light and beauty and joy...
The Temptation	John Milton	1628	English	From “Paradise Lost,” Book IX. THE SUN was sunk, and after him the star Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the Earth, short arbiter ’Twixt day and night, and now from end to end Night’s hemisphere had veiled the horizon round: ...
The Term of Death	Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt		English	Between the falling leaf and rose-bud’s breath; The bird’s forsaken nest and her new song (And this is all the time there is for Death); The worm and butterfly—it is not long!
The Term of Death	Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt		English	Between the falling leaf and rose-bud’s breath; The bird’s forsaken nest and her new song (And this is all the time there is for Death); The worm and butterfly—it is not long!
The Test	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1823	English	I hung my verses in the wind, Time and tide their faults may find. All were winnowed through and through, Five lines lasted sound and true; Five were smelted in a pot Than the South more fierce and hot; These the siroc could not melt, Fire...
The Test of Love — is Death —				The Test of Love — is Death — Our Lord — "so loved" — it saith — What Largest Lover — hath Another — doth — If smaller Patience — be — Through less Infinity — If Bravo, sometimes swerve — ...
The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor	Hezekiah Butterworth		English	“praise ye the Lord!” The psalm to-day Still rises on our ears, Borne from the hills of Boston Bay Through five times fifty years, When Winthrop’s fleet from Yarmouth crept Out to the open main, And through the widening waters swept,...
The Things that never can come back, are several —			English	The Things that never can come back, are several — Childhood — some forms of Hope — the Dead — Though Joys — like Men — may sometimes make a Journey — And still abide — We do not mourn for Traveler, or Sailor, Their...
The things we thought that we should do			English	The things we thought that we should do We other things have done But those peculiar industries Have never been begun — The Lands we thought that we should seek When large enough to run By...
The thought beneath so slight a film —				The thought beneath so slight a film — Is more distinctly seen — As laces just reveal the surge — Or mists — the Apennine
The Three Children	Anonymous		English	Three children sliding on the ice Upon a summer’s day, As it fell out they all fell in, The rest they ran away. Now, had these children been at home, Or sliding on dry ground, Ten thousand pounds to one penny They had not all been...
The Three Enemies	Christina Georgina Rossetti	1850	English	The Flesh “sweet, thou art pale.” “More pale to see, Christ hung upon the cruel tree And bore his Father’s wrath for me.” “Sweet, thou art sad.” “Beneath a rod More heavy Christ for my sake trod...
The Three Fishers	Charles Kingsley	1839	English	Three fishers went sailing out into the west,— Out into the west as the sun went down; Each thought of the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town; For men must work, and women must weep; And there ’s little...