Poems List

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1838) ‘On History’

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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Chartism (1839) ch. 2

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Ask me no more where Jove bestows,

When June is past, the fading rose;

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Here lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit The universal monarchy of wit.

‘An Elegy upon the Death of Dr John Donne’ (1640)

So here hath been dawning Another blue Day: Think wilt thou let it Slip useless away.

Today [1823–1833]

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The magic of a face.

Poems. Epitaph on the Lady S _____

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The firstling of the infant year.

Poems. The Primrose

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Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone: Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none.

Poems. Mediocrity in Love Rejected, st. 1

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He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or, from starlike eyes, doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.

Poems. Disdain Returned, st. 1

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Ask me no more whither doth haste The nightingale when May is past; For in your sweet dividing throat She winters and keeps warm her note.

Poems. To Celia, st. 3

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