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Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare
... did you know To a Mouse written by Robert Burns in 1785, deals with the narrator's destruction, unawares, of a mouse's nest as he pursued his winter plowing and was the inspiration behind the title of John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men?
... did you know Dulce et Decorum est was orginally written as a personal letter to Jessie Pope known for her pro-war poems widely published during World War I?
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor and critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantics. He is best known for his tales of the macabre and his poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction, as well as crime fiction in the United States. Poe died at the age of 40, the cause of his death a final mystery. His exact burial location is also a source of controversy.
Notable poems include:
- A Dream (1827)
- A Dream Within a Dream (1849)
- Dreams (1827)
- Tamerlane (1827)
- Al Aaraaf (1829)
- Alone (1829)
- To Helen (1831)
- Israfel (1831)
- The City in the Sea (1831)
- To One in Paradise (1833)
- The Conqueror Worm (1843)
- Lenore (1843)
- Dream-Land (1844)
- The Raven (1845)
- Ulalume (1847)
- Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848)
- Annabel Lee (1849)
- The Bells (1848)
- Eldorado (1849)
- A Defence of Poetry, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Four Ages of Poetry, 1820 by Thomas Love Peacock
- Periods of European Literature Series: The First Half of the Seventeenth Century, 1906 by Herbert J. C. Grierson
- Poetry in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica