George Herbert · 十七世纪英国
A Dialogue
Man. Sweetest Saviour, if my soul Were but worth the having,
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World poetry
Read poetry across languages and traditions, with authors, source editions and reviewed translations kept distinct.
Browse all published languages. Each work opens only an available, reviewed reading. 136 entries
Tang poetry 689World poetry 136Idioms 4Fables & stories 353Proverbs 667Maxims 8Book of Songs 97Song ci 5Yuan qu 4
George Herbert · 英国十七世纪
The Pulley
WHEN God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings standing by—
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George Herbert · 十七世纪英国
Love
LOVE bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin.
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
On Time
FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
At a Solemn Musick
BLEST pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav’ns joy, Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers,
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
From ‘Arcades’
O’re the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been,
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
THE Star that bids the Shepherd fold
THE Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top of Heav’n doth hold,
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
ii Echo
SWEET Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv’st unseen Within thy airy shell
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John Milton · 英国十七世纪
On His Blindness
WHEN I consider how my light is spent, E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide,
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
To Mr. Lawrence
LAWRENCE of vertuous Father vertuous Son, Now that the Fields are dank, and ways are mire,
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
To Cyriack Skinner
CYRIACK, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause
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John Milton · 十七世纪英国
On His Deceased Wife
METHOUGHT I saw my late espousèd Saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,
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Richard Lovelace · 英国十七世纪
To Lucasta, going to the Wars
TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery
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Richard Lovelace · 十七世纪英国
To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas
IF to be absent were to be Away from thee;
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Richard Lovelace · 十七世纪英国
Gratiana Dancing
SHE beat the happy pavèment— By such a star made firmament,
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Richard Lovelace · 十七世纪英国
To Amarantha, that she would dishevel her Hair
AMARANTHA sweet and fair, Ah, braid no more that shining hair!
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Richard Lovelace · 十七世纪英国
The Grasshopper
O THOU that swing’st upon the waving hair Of some well-fillèd oaten beard,
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Richard Lovelace · 英国十七世纪
To Althea, from Prison
WHEN Love with unconfinèd wings Hovers within my gates,
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Andrew Marvell · 英国十七世纪
A Garden (excerpt from Upon Appleton House)
SEE how the flowers, as at parade, Under their colours stand display’d:
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Andrew Marvell · 十七世纪英国
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers
SEE with what simplicity This nymph begins her golden days!
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Andrew Marvell · 十七世纪英国
Bermudas
WHERE the remote Bermudas ride In the ocean’s bosom unespied,
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Andrew Marvell · 十七世纪英国
An Epitaph
ENOUGH; and leave the rest to Fame! ’Tis to commend her, but to name.
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William Blake · 英国浪漫主义时期
To the Muses
WHETHER on Ida’s shady brow Or in the chambers of the East,
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William Blake · 英国浪漫主义时期
To Spring
O THOU with dewy locks, who lookest down Through the clear windows of the morning, turn
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