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Apr 12, 1374
Francesco Petrarch
stupid
You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes,
To make a graceful act of revenge,
It was on that day when the sun’s ray
What infinite providence and art
When I utter sighs, in calling out to you,
My passion’s folly is so led astray
Greed and sleep and slo -
Sep 20, 1501
Thomas grey
poemThomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and 7th Baron Ferrers of Groby KG, was an English nobleman, courtier and the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and her first husband Sir John Grey of Groby. -
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Jan 19, 1547
Henry Howard
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And thereto hath a troth as just
Give place, ye lovers, here before
That spent your boasts and brags in vain;
My lady's beauty passeth more
The best of yours, I dare well sayn,
Than doth the sun the candle-light,
Or brightest day the darkest night.
As had Penelope the fair;
For what she saith, ye may -
Oct 17, 1554
SIr Philip Sidney
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Edmund Spenser
eurp FAIR is my love, when her fair golden hairs
With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark;
Fair, when the rose in her red cheeks appears;
Or in her eyes the fire of love does spark.
Fair, when her breast, like a rich-laden bark, 5
With pr -
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William Shakespeare
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John Donne
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poet John Donne #35 on top 500 poets Poet's
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a pro -
Michael Drayton
linklinklinklinkBright star of beauty, on whose eyelids sit
A thousand nymph-like and enamour'd Graces,
The Goddesses of Memory and Wit,
Which there in order take their several places;
In whose dear bosom sweet delicious Love
Lays down his quiver, which he once did bear,
Since he that blessed Paradise did prove,
And leaves his mother's lap to sport him there.
Let others strive to entertain with words;
My soul is of a braver metal made;
I hold that vile which vulgar wit affords;
In me's that faith whi -
Charlotte Smith
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John Keats
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John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before h -
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Helen Maria Williams
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William Wordsworth
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Christina Rossetti
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Countee Cullen
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Claude Mckay
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E.E. Cummings
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Robert Frost
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John Berryman
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Robert Lowell
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John Hollander
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