32) 27. Careers. Graves, Robert. 1918. Fairies and Fusiliers
...That ever lived anywhere. You say you re going to write great music— I chose that first: it s unfair. Besides, now I can t be the greatest painter and 5 do Christ...

33) 276. Nature and the Poet. W. Wordsworth. The Golden Treasury
...Thy form was sleeping on a glassy sea. So pure the sky, so quiet was the air! 5 So like, so very like, was day to day! Whene'er I look'd, thy image still was there;...

34) 383. Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar by Allen Upward. The Diamond. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology
... THE POET Wong, after he had delighted a company of mandarins at a feast, sat silent in the midst of his household. He explained, The diamond sparkles only when it...

35) 32. Sonnet. II. The Children of the Night. Robinson, Edwin Arlington. 1921. Collected Poems
...What does it mean, this barren age of ours? Here are the men, the women, and the flowers, 10 The seasons, and the sunset, as before. What does it mean? Shall there...

36) 20. Shadrach O Leary. V. The Town Down the River. Robinson, Edwin Arlington. 1921. Collected Poems
...And emperors extinguished with a smile. They foiled his years with many an ancient wile, 5 And if they limped, O Leary didn t care: He turned them loose and had them...

37) Inferno [Hell]. Canto XX. Dante Alighieri. 1909-14. The Divine Comedy. The Harvard Classics
...The spirits whelm d in woe. Earnest I look d Into the depth, that open d to my view, 5 Moisten d with tears of anguish, and beheld A tribe, that came along the hollow...

38) Purgatory. Canto XIX. Dante Alighieri. 1909-14. The Divine Comedy. The Harvard Classics
...Pope Adrian the fifth. IT was the hour, 1 when of diurnal heat No reliques chafe the cold beams of the moon, O erpower d by earth, or planetary sway Of Saturn; and...

39) 1579. A Song about Singing by Anne Reeve Aldrich. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900
...The rose-thorns bruise his heart. But since thy agony can make 5 A listening world so blest, Be sure it cares but little for Thy wounded, bleeding breast!...

40) 594. Sonnets from the Portuguese. XVII. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1909-14. English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics
...From thence into their ears. God s will devotes Thine to such ends, and mine to wait on thine. How, Dearest, wilt thou have me for most use? 10 A hope, to sing by...