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Grave of John Keats
Poetry

John Keats’ Grave Inscription

Keats requested that only this phrase be inscribed on his headstone: Here lies One
Whose…
By John Keats
Poetry

The Toys

My little Son, who look’d from thoughtful eyes
And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up…
By Coventry Patmore
Poetry

“When You and I behind the Veil are past”

When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while…
By Omar Khayyam
Poetry

Dirge


We do lie beneath the grass
In the moonlight, in the shade
Of the yew-tree.…
By Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Poetry

An Inscription

A conqueror as provident as brave,
He robbed the cradle to supply the grave.
His…
By Ambrose Bierce
Poetry

A Garden by the Sea

I know a little garden-close
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would…
By William Morris
This Living Hand by Rembrandt (1666)
Poetry

This Living Hand

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold…
By John Keats
Poetry

A Legend of the Dove

Soft from the linden’s bough,
Unmoved against the tranquil afternoon,
Eve’s dove laments her now:…
By George Sterling
Poetry

Dirge of Love

Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypres let me be laid;
Fly away,…
By William Shakespeare
Episode of the September Days 1830, on the Grand Place of Brussels by Gustave Wappers
Poetry

Europe (The 72d and 73d Years of These States)

Suddenly out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
Like lightning Europe…
By Walt Whitman
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