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Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Part IIIn context
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Frost at Midnight (1798)In context
O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ode to the West Wind (1820)In context
- Hope
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down
John Keats1795–1821Ode to a Nightingale (1819)In context
- Life & Death
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
John Keats1795–1821To Autumn (1820)In context
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art!
John Keats1795–1821Bright Star (1838)In context
’Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone
Thomas Moore1779–1852The Last Rose of Summer (1813)In context
- Age
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language
William Cullen Bryant1794–1878Thanatopsis (1817)In context
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Emotion
Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning1812–1889Home-Thoughts, from Abroad (1845)In context
- Music
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), 6In context
- Children
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), 31In context
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman1819–1892When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1865)In context
- Life & Death
I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman1819–1892When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1865)In context
- Science