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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad for life, mad for talking, mad for poetry.

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Emily Dickinson Quotes

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul…

December 13, 2019
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Are they even relevant? or 5 Reasons to Read Emily Dickinson’s Poetry even though she died a long time ago

You, like me, probably had to study Emily Dickinson’s poetry as part of your English literature course in high school. You probably read her poem…

December 7, 2019
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Chorus Of Youths And Virgins By Alexander Pope

Semichorus.Oh Tyrant Love! hast thou possestThe prudent, learn’d, and virtuous breast?Wisdom and wit in vain reclaim,And Arts but soften us to feel thy flame.Love, soft…

October 4, 2019
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Chorus Of Athenians By Alexander Pope

Strophe I Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought;Groves, where immortal Sages taught;Where heav’nly visions of Plato fir’d,And Epicurus lay inspir’d!In vain your guiltless laurels…

October 4, 2019
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Celia By Alexander Pope

Celia, we know, is sixty-five,Yet Celia’s face is seventeen;Thus winter in her breast must live,While summer in her face is seen. How cruel Celia’s fate,…

October 4, 2019
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Book IV. Ode I. To Venus. By Alexander Pope

    Again? new tumults in my breast?    Ah, spare me, Venus! let me, let me rest!    I am not now, alas! the man    As in the gentle reign of…

October 4, 2019
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Book II. Satire VI. The First Part Imitated In The Year 1714, By Dr Swift; The Latter Part Added Afterwards. By Alexander Pope

    I’ve often wish’d that I had clear,    For life, six hundred pounds a-year,    A handsome house to lodge a friend,    A river at my garden’s end,    A terrace-walk, and…

October 4, 2019
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Book I. Epistle VII. By Alexander Pope

    IMITATED IN THE MANNER OF DR SWIFT.     ‘Tis true, my lord, I gave my word,    I would be with you, June the third;    Changed it to August,…

October 4, 2019
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Autumn – The Third Pastoral, Or Hylas And �gon By Alexander Pope

Beneath the shade a spreading Beech displays,Hylas and Aegon sung their rural lays,This mourn’d a faithless, that an absent Love,And Delia’s name and Doris’ fill’d…

October 4, 2019
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Argus By Alexander Pope

When wise Ulysses, from his native coastLong kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d,Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, alone,To all his friends, and…

October 4, 2019

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