Classical Poems
| Title | Poet |
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To Fortune
Whilst I in prison or in court look down,
Nor beg thy favour nor deserve thy frown, |
by Matthew Prior on 4/19/2010 |
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To Fortune
For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love, |
by James Thomson on 4/20/2010 |
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To France
What is the gift we have given thee, Sister?
What is the trust we have laid in thy hand? |
by Frederick George Scott on 1/3/2003 |
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To Francis Beaumont
How I do love thee, Beaumont, and thy muse,
That unto me dost such religion use! |
by Ben Jonson on 4/9/2010 |
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To Frank Dodd
Since four decades you've been to me
Both Guide and Friend, |
by Robert William Service on 1/13/2003 |
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To Frederick Henry Hedge
AT A DINNER GIVEN HIM ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY,
DECEMBER 12, 1885 |
by Oliver Wendell Holmes on 4/6/2010 |
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To Fredric
Fred, thou art six months old
This very day! |
by Thomas Cowherd on 4/26/2012 |
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To Fredrika Bremer
Seeress of the misty Norland,
Daughter of the Vikings bold, |
by John Greenleaf Whittier on 4/6/2010 |
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To Friends At Home
TO friends at home, the lone, the admired, the lost
The gracious old, the lovely young, to May |
by Robert Louis Stevenson on 12/31/2002 |
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To Friends At Parting
When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky,
Upon each shadowy glen, and sunny height, |
by Frances Anne Kemble on 9/6/2010 |
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To F--S S. O--D
Thou wouldst be loved?- then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not! |
by Edgar Allan Poe on 12/31/2002 |
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To G. C. And R. L.
'TWAS you, or I, or he, or all together,
'Twas one, both, three of them, they know not whether; |
by Oliver Goldsmith on 4/7/2010 |
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To G. G.
AN AUTOGRAPH.
Graceful in name and in thyself, our river |
by John Greenleaf Whittier on 4/6/2010 |
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To G. M. T.
The sun is sinking in the west,
Long grow the shadows dim; |
by George MacDonald on 4/9/2010 |
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To G. M. W. And G. F. W.
Whenas—(I love that 'whenas' word—
It shows I am a poet, too,) |
by Ellis Parker Butler on 4/20/2010 |
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To G.A.G.
A hasty jest I once let fall-
As jests are wont to be, untrue- |
by Charles Kingsley on 4/15/2010 |
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To G.A.W.
Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!
In what diviner moments of the day |
by John Keats on 1/13/2003 |
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To Garibaldi--With a Book
When at Philippi, he who would have freed
Great Rome from tyrants, for the season brief |
by George MacDonald on 4/9/2010 |
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To George B. Cheever
So spake Esaias: so, in words of flame,
Tekoa's prophet-herdsman smote with blame |
by John Greenleaf Whittier on 4/6/2010 |
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To George Felton Mathew
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song; |
by John Keats on 3/23/2010 |
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To George Hayter, Esq.
ON HIS PICTURE OF THE TRIAL OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL.
Hayter! almost I deemed the pencil's art |
by John Kenyon on 10/12/2010 |
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To George Herbert,
SENT HIM WITH ONE OF MY SEALS OF THE
ANCHOR AND CHRIST. |
by John Donne on 4/9/2010 |
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To George Peabody
DANVERS, 1866
BANKRUPT! our pockets inside out! |
by Oliver Wendell Holmes on 4/6/2010 |
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To George Sand: A Desire
THOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man,
Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions |
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on 5/13/2001 |
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To George Sand: A Recognition
TRUE genius, but true woman ! dost deny
The woman's nature with a manly scorn |
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on 5/13/2001 |