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Holy Sonnets I to XIX (aka 'The Divine Meditations')

In A Selection of Divine Poems

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John Donne

John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love aga…

The Battle of the Lake Regillus

In The Lays of Ancient Rome

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Lays of Ancient Rome comprise four narrative poems comprised by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: recalling popular episodes from Roman hi…

The Chase aka The Wild Horseman

In Translations & Imitations of German Ballads

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Sir Walter Scott

The narrative poems in this collection are written by Sir Walter Scott - the well-known Scottish poet and novelist. Each of these five poems…

01 Canto 1, Part 1, Stanzas 1-15

In Lara, A Tale

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Lord Byron and George Gordon, Lord Byron

This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient.Returning…

Quatrains 1-20

In The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald 5th edition)

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Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. and Omar Khayyám

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is so-named from the Persian word rubáiyát - a Persian word denoting a speci…

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