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Erysichthon
By Ovid
Translated By Ted Hughes
Some are transformed just once
And live their whole lives after in that shape.
Others have a facility
For changing themselves as they please.
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Erysichthon’s Seed
By Shanta Lee
      Hunger like her mama
      Most strong in White gaze as in
      a Cowbird’s flirtation
      Sprouted in eyes to tongues
      to bellies pregnant with stolen milk
      to restless hands
      These fingernails filled with Black body,
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The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot
I. The Burial of the Dead

April is the cruellest monthApril is the cruellest month The Waste Land begins with a subversion of the first lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. He paints April...
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from Paradiso: Canto 33 (lines 46-48, 52-66)
By Dante Alighieri
Translated By Robert Pinsky
As I drew nearer to the end of all desire,
I brought my longing's ardor to a final height,
Just as I ought. My vision, becoming pure,

Entered more and more the beam of that high light
That shines on its own truth. From...
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Terza Rima
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Optimism
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The Songs of Maximus: SONG 2
By Charles Olson
all
wrong
            And I am asked—ask myself (I, too, covered
with the gurry of it) where
shall we go from here, what can we do
when even the public conveyances
sing?
          how can we go anywhere,
even cross-town
                         how get out of anywhere (the bodies
all buried
in shallow...
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The Songs of Maximus: SONG 1
By Charles Olson

                     colored pictures
of all things to eat: dirty
postcards
               And words, words, words
all over everything
                                              No eyes or ears left
to do their own doings (all

invaded, appropriated, outraged, all senses

including the mind, that worker on what is
                                                                  And that other sense
made to give even the...
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Canto IV
By Ezra Pound
Palace in smoky light,
Troy but a heap of smouldering boundary stones,
ANAXIFORMINGES! Aurunculeia!
Hear me. Cadmus of Golden Prows!
The silver mirrors catch the bright stones and flare,
Dawn, to our waking, drifts in the green cool light;
Dew-haze blurs, in the grass, pale ankles...
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Don Juan: Canto 11
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
I
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter,"
And proved it—'twas no matter what he said:
They say his system 'tis in vain to batter,
Too subtle for the airiest human head;
And yet who can believe...
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Writing an Elegy
By Rickey Laurentiis
But so tangled in the branches they had to leave it, the conquistador’s
black beard cut from his head whose neck had snapped,
his deadness the others had to burn then, for the wind to take evenly away.
If not for his...
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Paradise Lost: Book 7 (1674 version)
By John Milton
DEscend from Heav'n Urania, by that name
If rightly thou art call'd, whose Voice divine
Following, above th' Olympian Hill I soare,
Above the flight of Pegasean wing.
The meaning, not the Name I call: for thou
Nor of the...
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Paradise Lost: Book 1 (1674 version)
By John Milton
OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret...
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from Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere,
First made and latest left of all the knights,
Told, when the man was no more than a voice
In the white winter of his age, to those
With whom he dwelt, new...
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from Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood
Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round,
At Camelot, high above the yellowing woods,
Danced like a wither'd leaf before the hall.
And toward him from the hall, with harp in hand,...
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from Idylls of the King: Song from The Marriage of Geraint
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild...
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from Maud (Part XVIII): I have led her Home, my love, my only friend
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I have led her home, my love, my only friend,
There is none like her, none.
And never yet so warmly ran my blood
And sweetly, on and on
Calming itself to the long-wished-for end,
Full to the banks, close...
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Paradise Regain'd: Book 4 (1671 version)
By John Milton
PErplex'd and troubl'd at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discover'd in his fraud, thrown from his hope,
So oft, and the perswasive Rhetoric
That sleek't his tongue, and won so much on Eve,
So...
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Paradise Regain'd: Book 3 (1671 version)
By John Milton
SO spake the Son of God, and Satan stood
A while as mute confounded what to say,
What to reply, confuted and convinc't
Of his weak arguing, and fallacious drift;
At length collecting all his Serpent wiles,
With soothing words...
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Paradise Regain'd: Book 2 (1671 version)
By John Milton
MEan while the new-baptiz'd, who yet remain'd
At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen
Him whom they heard so late expresly call'd
Jesus Messiah Son of God declar'd,
And on that high Authority had believ'd,
And with him talkt,...
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Paradise Regain'd: Book 1 (1671 version)
By John Milton
I Who e're while the happy Garden sung,
By one mans disobedience lost, now sing
Recover'd Paradise to all mankind,
By one mans firm obedience fully tri'd
Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil'd
In all his wiles, defeated and...
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Canto LXXXI
By Ezra Pound
Zeus lies in Ceres’ bosom
Taishan is attended of loves
                        under Cythera, before sunrise
And he said: “Hay aquí mucho catolicismo—(sounded
                                                            catolithismo
                      y muy poco reliHion.”
and he said: “Yo creo que los reyes desparecen”
(Kings will, I think,...
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Explore Poems: Epic

Erysichthon

Erysichthon’s Seed

The Waste Land

from Paradiso: Canto 33 (lines 46-48, 52-66)

The Songs of Maximus: SONG 2

The Songs of Maximus: SONG 1

Canto IV

Don Juan: Canto 11

Writing an Elegy

Paradise Lost: Book 7 (1674 version)

Paradise Lost: Book 1 (1674 version)

from Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur

from Idylls of the King: The Last Tournament

from Idylls of the King: Song from The Marriage of Geraint

from Maud (Part XVIII): I have led her Home, my love, my only friend

Paradise Regain'd: Book 4 (1671 version)

Paradise Regain'd: Book 3 (1671 version)

Paradise Regain'd: Book 2 (1671 version)

Paradise Regain'd: Book 1 (1671 version)

Canto LXXXI

p1from Paradiso: Canto 33 (lines 46-48, 52-66)

p1Writing an Elegy

from Paradiso: Canto 33 (lines 46-48, 52-66)

Writing an Elegy