It's such a little thing to weep,
So short a thing to sigh;
And yet by trades the size of these
We men and women die!

From the Italian by John Edward Taylor
IF it be true that any beauteous thing
Raises the pure and just desire of man
From earth to God, the eternal fount of all,
Such I believe my love; for as in her
So fair, in whom I all besides forget,
I view the...

She is a winsome wee thing,
She is a handsome wee thing,
She is a bonnie wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o’ mine.

I never saw a fairer,
I never lo’ed a dearer,
And neist my heart I ’ll wear her,
For fear my jewel tine.

She is a...

Poet: Robert Burns

From the French by Henry Francis Cary
Addressed to his deceased wife, who died in childbed at the age of twenty-two

TO make my lady’s obsequies
  My love a minster wrought,
And, in the chantry, service there
  Was sung by doleful thought;
The tapers...

From “Endymion,” Book I.
A THING of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on...

Poet: John Keats

Art thou the thing I wanted?

Begone — my Tooth has grown —

Supply the minor Palate

That has not starved so long —

I tell thee while I waited

The mystery of Food

Increased till I abjured it

And...

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Can there be any thing more mean

More Malice in disguise

Than Praise a Man for doing what

That Man does most despise
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Death sets a Thing significant

The Eye had hurried by

Except a perished Creature

Entreat us tenderly


To ponder little Workmanships

In Crayon, or in Wool,

With "This was last Her fingers did" —
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Glory is that bright tragic thing

That for an instant

Means Dominion —

Warms some poor name

That never felt the Sun,

Gently replacing

In oblivion —

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"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all


And sweetest in the Gale is heard

And sore must be the storm —

That could...

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