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UPON A MAID by Robert Herrick
Here she lies, in bed of spice,
Fair as Eve in paradise;
For her beauty, it was such,
Poets could..
UPON JULIA'S RECOVERY by Robert Herrick
Droop, droop no more, or hang the head,
Ye roses almost withered;
Now strength, and newer purple g..
UPON CUPID by Robert Herrick
Love, like a gipsy, lately came,
And did me much importune
To see my hand, that by the same
He mi..
UPON JULIA'S RIBBON by Robert Herrick
As shews the air when with a rain-bow graced,
So smiles that ribbon ’bout my Julia’s waist;
Or lik..
UPON HIMSELF by Robert Herrick
Thou shalt not all die; for while Love’s fire shines
Upon his altar, men shall read thy lines;
And..
UPON TIME by Robert Herrick
Time was upon
The wing, to fly away;
And I call’d on
Him but awhile to stay;
But he’d be gone,
..
Up Scoble by Robert Herrick
Scobble for whoredom whips his wife and cries
He’ll slit her nose; but blubbering she replies,
"Go..
UPON THE DETRACTER by Robert Herrick
I ask’d thee oft what poets thou hast read,
And lik’st the best? Still thou repli’st, The dead.
--..
UPON MRS ELIZ. WHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OFAMARILLIS by Robert Herrick
Sweet Amarillis, by a spring’s
Soft and soul-melting murmurings,
Slept; and thus sleeping, thither..
Upon Prew His Maid by Robert Herrick
In this little Urne is laid
Prewdence Baldwin (once my maid)
From whose happy spark here let
Spri..
UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN by Robert Herrick
Men say you’re fair; and fair ye are, ’tis true;
But, hark! we praise the painter now, not you...
Ulster by Rudyard Kipling
The dark eleventh hour
Draws on and sees us sold
To every evil power
We fought against of old.
R..
Understanding by Sara Teasdale
I understood the rest too well,
And all their thoughts have come to be
Clear as grey sea-weed in t..
Unto Us... by Spike Milligan
Somewhere at some time
They committed themselves to me
And so, I was!
Small, but I WAS!
Tiny, in..
Under The Waterfall by Thomas Hardy
’Whenever I plunge my arm, like this,
In a basin of water, I never miss
The sweet sharp sense of..
Unknowing by Thomas Hardy
WHEN, soul in soul reflected,
We breathed an ?thered air,
When we neglected
All things elsewhere,..
Under Which Lyre by W. H. Auden
A REACTIONARY TRACT FOR THE TIMES
(Phi Beta Kappa Poem, Harvard, 1946)
Ares at last has qu..
Unknown Bird by W. S. Merwin
Out of the dry days
through the dusty leaves
far across the valley
those few notes never
heard h..
Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare
Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s..
Under The Round Tower by William Butler Yeats
’Although I’d lie lapped up in linen
A deal I’d sweat and little earn
If I should live as live the..
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