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To Mr. Rowland Woodward
by Donne, John
To Mr. S. B.
by Donne, John
To Mr. T. W. [Pregnant again with th'old twins, Hope and Fear...]
by Donne, John
To Mrs. M. A. at Parting
by Philips, Katherine
To Mrs. P********, with some Drawings of Birds and Insects
by Barbauld, Anna Lætitia
To Mrs. Reynold's Cat
by Keats, John
Tom Tyler and his Wife
by Anonymous,
To my Beloved Vesta
by Brooks, Shirley
To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
by Dryden, John
To my Dear and Loving Husband
by Bradstreet, Anne
To My Friends and Critics
by Moore, Julia
To My Grandmother
by Lampson, Frederick Locker
To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
by Dryden, John
To my Husband on our Wedding-Day
by Leprohon, Rosanna Eleanor (Mullins)
To my little niece Anne Duyckinck, aged 9 years
by Livingston, Jr., Major Henry
To my Inconstant Mistress
by Carew, Thomas
To My Spinning-Wheel
by Dixon, Charlotte Eliza
Tone
by L'Abbé, Sonnet
The Tongue’s Allotment
by Reibetanz, John
To Night
by White, Joseph Blanco
To Night
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Too Much has Resisted Us
by Di Cicco, Pier Giorgio
To One on her Birthday
by Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
To One who has been Long in City Pent
by Keats, John
To One Who would Make a Confession
by Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
To Philaster
by Fyge, Sarah
To Quilca, a Country House not in Good Repair
by Swift, Jonathan
To R. K.
by Stephen, James Kenneth
To Robert Browning
by Landor, Walter Savage
To Rosa
by Lincoln, Abraham
To Rosemounde
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
Tortoise Gallantry
by Lawrence, David Herbert
Tortoise Shout
by Lawrence, David Herbert
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
To Sir Henry Goodyere
by Donne, John
To Sir Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice
by Donne, John
To Sir Henry Wotton [Here's no more news, than virtue: I may as well...]
by Donne, John
To Sir Henry Wotton [Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls...]
by Donne, John
To Sir Toby,
by Freneau, Philip Morin
To Sir Walter Scott
by Pringle, Thomas
To Sleep
by Keats, John
To Stretcher Bearers
by Studdert Kennedy, Geoffrey Anketell
To Teach thy Base Thoughts Manners
by Middleton, Thomas
To the Bartholdi Statue
by Bierce, Ambrose
To the Canadian Poets, 1940
by Souster, Raymond
To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode
by Maxwell, James Clerk
To the City of London
by Dunbar, William
To the Countess of Bedford [Madam, Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right...]
by Donne, John
To the Countess of Bedford [To have written then, when you writ, seem'd to me ...]
by Donne, John
To the Cuckoo
by Wordsworth, William

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On this day: November 26th

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Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life

Spenser, Edmund

1Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day,

2Didst make thy triumph over death and sin:

3And having harrow'd hell, didst bring away

4Captivity thence captive, us to win:

5This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin,

6And grant that we for whom thou diddest die,

7Being with thy dear blood clean wash'd from sin,

8May live for ever in felicity.

9And that thy love we weighing worthily,

10May likewise love thee for the same again:

11And for thy sake, that all like dear didst buy,

12With love may one another entertain.

13So let us love, dear love, like as we ought,

14Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Notes

1] A series of eighty-eight sonnets, published in 1595 and probably written between 1592 and 1594 during the poet's wooing of Elizabeth Boyle.
this day: Easter Sunday. Back to Line

3] The harrowing of Hell was the descent of Christ into Hades to succour the souls of the just, first related in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. A popular medieval story, and the subject of the first extant English dramatic "debate", written ca. 1300. Back to Line