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This compilation includes a diverse range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various genres and historical periods.
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“But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.”
“Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”
“God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.”
“Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.”
“So mothers have God's license to be missed.”
“Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.”
“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
“Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!”
“We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.”
“The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.”
“Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.”
“Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.”
“What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.”
“Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.”