Classical Poems
| Title | Poet |
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TO LIVE MERRILY,AND TO TRUST TO GOOD VERSES
Now is the time for mirth;
Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; |
by Robert Herrick on 12/31/2002 |
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To Lizbie Browne
I
Dear Lizbie Browne, |
by Thomas Hardy on 1/4/2003 |
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To Lone
ALL day within me, sweet and clear
The song you sang is ringing. |
by Christopher Pearse Cranch on 9/24/2010 |
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To look across at Moira gives me pleasure
To look across at Moira gives me pleasure.
She has a red tape measure. |
by Lesbia Harford on 4/15/2010 |
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To Lord Hu
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui,
nor for the priceless jade disk of Master Ho. |
by Li Ching Chao on 1/1/2004 |
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To Lord Tennyson
(WITH A VOLUME OF VERSE)
Master and mage, our prince of song, whom Time, |
by William Watson on 4/10/2010 |
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To Lord Thurlow
'I lay my branch of laurel down.
Then thus to form Apollo's crown. |
by George Gordon Lord Byron on 3/25/2010 |
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To Lorenzo
Go, distant shores and brighter conquests seek,
But my affection will your scorn survive! |
by Amelia Opie on 1/3/2003 |
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To lose one's faith—surpass
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To lose one's faith—surpass |
by Emily Dickinson on 1/13/2003 |
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To Lothario
Think not, Lothario, while I view
The bright expression of thy face, |
by Amelia Opie on 1/3/2003 |
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To Lou Andreas-Salome
I held myself too open, I forgot
that outside not just things exist and animals |
by Rainer Maria Rilke on 1/13/2003 |
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To Louisa C—, For Her Album
Life is an Album; and my free
Imagination loves to look |
by John Kenyon on 10/12/2010 |
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To Louise
OH, the poets may sing of their Lady Irenes,
And may rave in their rhymes about wonderful queens; |
by Paul Laurence Dunbar on 4/2/2010 |
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To Love
If, Cupid, Heaven is your home, you
are the child of Venus, Nectar and |
by Giles Fletcher The Elder on 1/1/2004 |
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To Love (Amanda)
Sweet tyrant Love,- but hear me now!
And cure while young this pleasing smart; |
by James Thomson on 4/20/2010 |
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To Love and Time
TO MRS. MULSO.
On Stella's brow as lately envious Time |
by Anna Laetitia Barbauld on 9/6/2010 |
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To love thee Year by Year
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To love thee Year by Year— |
by Emily Dickinson on 1/13/2003 |
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To Love This Flesh
To love this flesh,
its rivers and valleys, |
by Leo Yankevich on 2/13/2008 |
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To Lovers
Ho, ye lovers, list to me;
Warning words have I for thee: |
by Ellis Parker Butler on 1/1/2004 |
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To Lucasta
I.
I laugh and sing, but cannot tell |
by Richard Lovelace on 12/31/2002 |
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To Lucasta From Prison An Epode
I.
Long in thy shackels, liberty |
by Richard Lovelace on 12/31/2002 |
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To Lucasta Ode Lyrick
I.
Ah LUCASTA, why so bright? |
by Richard Lovelace on 12/31/2002 |
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To Lucasta on Going to the War - For the Fourth Time
It doesn’t matter what’s the cause,
What wrong they say we’re righting, |
by Robert Graves on 1/3/2003 |
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To Lucasta, From Prison
I.
Long in thy shackels, liberty |
by Richard Lovelace on 1/3/2003 |
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To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas
If to be absent were to be
Away from thee; |
by Richard Lovelace on 1/3/2003 |