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Sonnet 24 - Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife
Sonnet 24 - Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife
XXIV
Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife,
Shut in upon itself and do no h…
Sonnet 22 - When our two souls stand up erect and strong
Sonnet 22 - When our two souls stand up erect and strong
XXII
When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and …
Sonnet 20 - Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
Sonnet 20 - Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
XX
Beloved, my Beloved, when I think
That thou wast in the world a year ago,
What time I sat al…
Sonnet 18 - I never gave a lock of hair away
Sonnet 18 - I never gave a lock of hair away
XVIII
I never gave a lock of hair away
To a man, Dearest, except this to thee,
Which now upon my…
Sonnet 14 - If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Sonnet 14 - If thou must love me, let it be for nought
XIV
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
Sonnet 16 - And yet, because thou overcomest so
Sonnet 16 - And yet, because thou overcomest so
XVI
And yet, because thou overcomest so,
Because thou art more noble and like a king,
Thou ca…
Sonnet 10 - Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
Sonnet 10 - Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
X
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,
…
Sonnet 12 - Indeed this very love which is my boast
Sonnet 12 - Indeed this very love which is my boast
XII
Indeed this very love which is my boast,
And which, when rising up from breast to brow,
Sonnet 08 - What can I give thee back, O liberal
Sonnet 08 - What can I give thee back, O liberal
VIII
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And …
Sonnet 06 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Sonnet 06 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
VI
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alon…
Sonnet 04 - Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor
Sonnet 04 - Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor
IV
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most gracious singer of high poems! where
Sonnet 02 - But only three in all God's universe
Sonnet 02 - But only three in all God's universe
II
But only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou hast said,-Himself, beside
Rosalind's Scroll
Rosalind's Scroll
I LEFT thee last, a child at heart,
A woman scarce in years:
I come to thee, a solemn corpse
Which neither feels nor fears.…
Patience Taught By Nature
Patience Taught By Nature
'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! '
And still the generations of the birds
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks an…
Pain In Pleasure
Pain In Pleasure
A THOUGHT ay like a flower upon mine heart,
And drew around it other thoughts like bees
For multitude and thirst of sweetnesses;
W…
On A Portrait Of Wordsworth
On A Portrait Of Wordsworth
WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn ! Let the cloud
Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind,
Then break against the rock, and show behind <…
My Heart and I
My Heart and I
I.
ENOUGH ! we're tired, my heart and I.
We sit beside the headstone thus,
And wish that name were carved for us.
The mo…
Minstrelsy
Minstrelsy
For ever, since my childish looks
Could rest on Nature's pictured books;
For ever, since my childish tongue
Could name the themes …
IX
IX
Can it be right to give what I can give ?
To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing…
Irreparableness
Irreparableness
I HAVE been in the meadows all the day
And gathered there the nosegay that you see
Singing within myself as bird or bee
When …
I
I
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a…
III
III
Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart !
Unlike our uses and our destinies.
Our ministering two angels look surprise
On one another, as …
Futurity
Futurity
AND, O beloved voices, upon which
Ours passionately call because erelong
Ye brake off in the middle of that song
We sang together so…
How Do I Love Thee?
How Do I Love Thee?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sig…