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English Poems

Dark House

Sylvia Plath

This is a dark house, very big.I made it myself,Cell by cell from a quiet corner,Chewing at the grey paper,Oozing the glue drops,Whistling, wiggling my ears,Thinking of something else. It has so many cellars,Such eeli…

Darkness

Lord Byron

I had a dream, which was not all a dream.The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space,Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earthSwung blind and blackening in the moon­less air;M…

Dion

William Wordsworth

. See Plutarch.Serene, and fitted to embrace,Where’er he turned, a swan-like graceOf haughtiness without pretence,And to unfold a still magnificence,Was princely Dion, in the powerAnd beauty of his happier hour.And wh…

Dirge

William Shakespeare

Dirge by William Shakespeare Come away, come away, death,And in sad cypres let me be laid;Fly away, fly away, breath;I am slain by a fair cruel maid.My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,O prepare it!My part of death…

Dream

Land by Edgar Allan Poe

Land by Edgar Allan Poe By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule-From a wil…

Dream Variations

Langston Hughes

To fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.Then rest at cool eveningBeneath a tall treeWhile night comes on gently,Dark like me-That is my dream! To fling my arms wid…