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Letter "P" » Poets
"Singing and rejoicing,
As aye since time began,
The dying earth's last poet
Shall be the earth's last man."
Author: Alexander Anton von Auersperg ("Anastasius Grun")
About: Poets
"Poets are all who love,who feel great truths,
And tell them."
Author: Philip James Bailey
About: Poets
"A poet not in love is out at sea;
He must have a lay-figure."
Author: Philip James Bailey
About: Poets
"Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]"
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
About: Poets
"Poets are sultans, if they had their will:
For every author would his brother kill."
Author: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery
About: Poets
"Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls
What triumphs shall be yours!
For all are happy and rich and great
In that City of By-and-by."
Author: Alonzo B. Bragdon
About: Poets
"There's nothing great
Nor small," has said a poet of our day,
Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve
And not be thrown out by the matin's bell."
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
About: Poets
"O brave poets, keep back nothing;
Nor mix falsehood with the whole!
Look up Godward! speak the truth in
Worthy song from earnest soul!
Hold, in high poetic duty,
Truest Truth the fairest Beauty."
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
About: Poets
"God's prophets of the Beautiful,
These Poets were."
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"One fine day,
Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.
"So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled.
"A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then
It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent
Verse to the paper; how they printed it
In Poet's Corner."
Author: Robert Williams Buchanan
About: Poets
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